Scorton Creek Marshes

Scorton Creek Marshes is in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Scorton Creek Marshes is situated nearby to the hamlet Scorton Shores, as well as near Plowed Neck.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Benjamin Nye Homestead and Riverview School.

Benjamin Nye Homestead

Historic building

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The Benjamin Nye Homestead is a historic house museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The earliest portion of the 2.5-story timber-frame house was built in 1678 by Benjamin Nye, and has remained in the hands of his descendants for most of the time since then.

Riverview School

School

Riverview School is a private boarding/day school for students, ages 11–22, with complex language, learning, and cognitive challenges located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States.

Wing Fort House

Museum

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Wing Fort House is a historic house at Spring Hill Road in East Sandwich, Massachusetts, located within the Spring Hill Historic District. It was built in 1641 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Sandwich and West Barnstable.

East Sandwich

Hamlet

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East Sandwich is a village and census-designated place within the town of Sandwich in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. As of the 2020 census, East Sandwich had a population of 3,669.

West Barnstable

Village

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West Barnstable is a seaside village in the northwestern part of the town of Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Once devoted to agricultural pursuits, West Barnstable now is largely residential and historic.

Sandwich

Photo: RadPal, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Sandwich is on Cape Cod in Massachusetts at the east end of the Cape Cod Canal, and includes the villages of East Sandwich and Forestdale. It is the oldest town on the Cape, settled in 1637.

Scorton Creek Marshes

Type: Wetland
Address: MA
Category: body of water
Location: Barnstable County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.73539° or 41° 44′ 7″ north

Longitude

-70.4253° or 70° 25′ 31″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

87HFPHPF+5V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368984032

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wetland

GeoNames ID

4950438

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Scorton Shores and Plowed Neck.

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