Upper Shawme Lake
Upper Shawme Lake is a pond in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Upper Shawme Lake 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 Sandwich Glass Museum and Wing Fort House.
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.
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. Wing Fort House is situated 2 miles east of Upper Shawme Lake.
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 1½ miles north of Upper Shawme Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandwich and Sagamore.
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.
Sagamore
Village
East Sandwich
Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 2½ miles east of Upper Shawme Lake.
Upper Shawme Lake
- Type: Pond
- Also known as: “Mill Pond”, “Shawme Lake”, and “Upper Pond”
- Category: body of water
- Location: Barnstable County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.74788° or 41° 44′ 52″ northLongitude
-70.5019° or 70° 30′ 7″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
87HFPFXX+56OpenStreetMap ID
way 82329094OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=pondGeoNames ID
4953779
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as The Springs and Old Quaker Meetinghouse.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shawme Pond Overlook and McInnes Garden.
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