Town Neck
Town Neck is a cape in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Town Neck is situated nearby to the hamlet The Springs, as well as near Old Quaker Meetinghouse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wing Fort House and Sandwich Glass Museum.
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.
Sandwich Glass Museum
Museum
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Sandwich Glass Museum is a town history museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts, featuring a wide range of rare glass, including Victorian era glass manufactured by the now defunct local Boston & Sandwich Glass Factory, founded in Sandwich by Deming Jarves in 1825.
Canal Generating Plant
Power station
The Canal Generating Plant is a petroleum and natural gas electrical power station in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Canal 1, a baseload unit, began operation in 1968 and was for many years the most efficient oil burning plant in the US. Canal Generating Plant is situated 2 miles west of Town Neck.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandwich and East Sandwich.
Sandwich
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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.
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. The population was 3,940 at the 2010 census. East Sandwich is situated 2 miles southeast of Town Neck.
Sagamore
Village
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. Sagamore is situated 3 miles west of Town Neck.
Town Neck
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Barnstable County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.76538° or 41° 45′ 55″ northLongitude
-70.47864° or 70° 28′ 43″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
87HFQG8C+5GGeoNames ID
4953199
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