Posts Tagged ‘Chatham History’
Mitchell River Bridge: Chatham’s Historic Wooden Drawbridge
Mitchell River Bridge: Chatham’s Historic Wooden Drawbridge The Mitchell River Bridge is the drawbridge that carries Bridge Street over the Mitchell River in Chatham, Massachusetts, linking the Old Village side of town with the Stage Harbor shore. It is the bridge most people mean when they search for “Chatham bridge” on Cape Cod. The wooden…
Read MoreSamuel de Champlain in Chatham: Mapping His 1606 Voyage to Stage Harbor
Samuel de Champlain in Chatham: Mapping His 1606 Voyage to Stage Harbor A Samuel de Champlain route map for 1606 traces a coastal voyage that ended, for about two weeks that autumn, in the harbour now called Stage Harbor in Chatham, Massachusetts. The expedition sailed south from the French settlement at Port Royal, felt its…
Read MoreJoseph C. Lincoln: The Novelist Who Put Cape Cod on the Page
Joseph C. Lincoln: The Novelist Who Put Cape Cod on the Page Joseph C. Lincoln was an early 20th century American author who wrote more than forty novels, along with short stories, verse, and reminiscences, nearly all of them set in a fictional version of Cape Cod. Chatham was his adopted summer home, not his…
Read MoreSquanto (Tisquantum): Life, Pilgrims & Chatham Death
Squanto (Tisquantum): Life, Pilgrims & Chatham Death Tisquantum, called Squanto in English colonial records, was a Patuxet Wampanoag man who worked as an interpreter, guide, and negotiator for the English settlers at Plymouth Colony. He was taken from the New England coast by an English ship captain, spent years in Europe and Newfoundland, and returned…
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