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Dennis / d n s/ is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, positioned near the center of Cape Cod. These constituent villages are Dennis (including North Dennis), Dennis Port, East Dennis, South Dennis, and West Dennis. Currently, Dennis is a prominent seaside resort town, notable for its stately colonial mansions along the northern Cape Cod Bay coastline, and its picturesque, warm-water beaches along the southern Nantucket Sound. The town of Dennis spans the width of Cape Cod, with Cape Cod Bay to the north, Brewster to the northeast, Harwich to the southeast, Nantucket Sound to the south, and Yarmouth to the west. The Town of Dennis comprises the villages of Dennis Port, Dennis Village (including North Dennis), East Dennis, South Dennis and West Dennis. There are a several small ponds and lakes in town, as well as Sesuit Harbor to the north and West Dennis Harbor to the south. The north and south shores of the town have many beaches, as well as the Dennis Yacht Club in the north and West Dennis Yacht Club in the south. While West Dennis is indeed west of Dennisport, it is south of South Dennis. East Dennis is north of South Dennis, and Dennis is on the shore, to the west of East Dennis. Chapin, a real estate developer who donated the territory to the Town after World War II. Chase Garden Creek empties into Cape Cod Bay at Chapin Beach, and serves as a boundary between Dennis and Yarmouth. The region dominant to Chapin Beach has alternatively been known as Little Italy and Little Taunton for the Italian immigrants who came by way of Taunton, Massachusetts in the late 1800s to build the barns on Cape Cod. Many streets in the area, such as Squadrilli Way, Dr. Boterro Road, Spadoni Road, and Angelo Road, as well as Lombardi Heights, were titled for Italians. The region known as New Boston, including a road and a river, was titled for a group of Bostonians who settled in the area. Corporation Beach, which is also sometimes called Nobscussett Beach, was titled for the Nobscussett Point Pier Corporation. It is positioned on the east side of Nobscusset Point. There was once an Indian village at Nobscussett Point and Harbor, which is also called the Bite, a misspelling of bight. Nobscussett is possibly related to the Algonquian word wanashqu, which means at the end of the rock. It is titled for the floundered Mayflower Beach Condominiums Complex. At the other end of Mayflower Beach is Bayview Beach, which has a parking lot for inhabitants only. Dennis Port was titled by Thomas Howes, the village's first postmaster, in 1850. Previously it had been known as Crooks Neck, after Samuel Crook, an Indian who sold the territory to English pioneer in the 17th century. The name changed to Crookers Neck before becoming Dennis Port. Glennon Road, and the beach titled for the street, took their name from Hubert Glennon, a Marine officer who served as the Columbia University rowing coach after World War II, and who donated the beach to the village. To the west is Peter Hagis Beach, which is positioned on territory donated by his widow. Also in the village is Inman Road Beach, titled for the Inman family (including Isaiah Inman) who lived on the corner of Lower County Road. Raycroft Beach was titled for Louis B. The Plashes, a term which means "a small compilation of standing water," is a conservation region with a several small ponds and creeks connecting them. On the Harwich line is White Pond, so titled because the way the light hits the water. It was formerly known as Aunt Lizzie Robbins Pond, titled for a member of the Robbins family of Harwich, who appeared on the Cape in the early 1700s. Swan Pond took its name from the Algonquin word sowan, meaning south. It is also known as Jamies Pond, after James Chase. Cold Storage Road, and the beach of the same moniker, was titled for the storehouses in the region that kept fish cold in the early 1900s. Off of Cold Storage Road is Salt Works Road, titled for the salt works assembled in the 1700s by Captain John Sears. Dennis was once the Cape's prestige in making salt, but closed in 1888 after salt mines in New York were opened. East Dennis was once known as Searsville, for the Sears family. It was once known as Indian Land as Crowe was a common name for families with white and Indian spouses. It is, along with Chapin Beach, one of two beaches in the town on which vehicles are allowed. Nearby side streets also have aeronautical names, including Propeller Lane, Pilot Drive, Wing Lane, and Jet Drive. A series of streets off Kelly's Bay, just north of the Mid-Cape Highway, received their name for the supposed visit of Vikings to Cape Cod. Noreseman, Lief Ericson, Thorwald, Freydis, Viking, and Vinland Drives are all titled for the seafaring Scandinavians. Kelly's Bay took its name from David O'Kelia who came to Cape Cod from his native Northern Ireland in the late 1600s. It is part of the Bass River. Quaker Road, which runs to the pond, is titled for the Quakers who assembled a meetinghouse there. Highbank Road crosses the Bass River into Yarmouth where the banks of the river are tall. It was once known as the upper bridge, with the lower bridge in West Dennis. Near Wilbur Cove on the river is the Wilbur Preserve, titled for Dr. Hokum Rock Road, where a drive-in movie theater once stood, is titled for a cluster of stones titled Hokum Rock. The name may come from the Indian word for "back bend," hoccanum, referring to the biggest of the rocks which is hooked. The access road dominant to the town dump, Theophilus F. Flax Pond was so titled because early inhabitants would soak bundles of flax in the pond until the pulp would separate and could be used to spin linen. Just to its south at the head of the Bass River is Follins Pond, titled for the 17th century settler Thomas Follins. The "funn" in Funn Pond, at the Dennis Pines golf course, is a shortened version of funnell, or a charcoal burner. Part of West Dennis is known as Baker Town for the Baker family that once resided on and around Main Stree in South and West Dennis. The Bakers sent 29 captains to sea, and the Ezra Baker School and the Baker Park in West Dennis are titled for family members. Peter Petlz' poem describes the influence the family had in the area: Aunt Julia Ann Road, and the beach by the same name, is found on the Bass River, athwart from the Bass River Golf Club. West Dennis Beach was once known as Davis Beach, and the road that runs along the length of the beach is Davis Beach Road. Charles Henry Davis sold the beach to the Town in the early 1900s. Davis once transported and combined seven homes into a single mansion on the other side of the Bass River in South Yarmouth, giving it the name The House of Seven Chimneys. At the east end of the beach is the Lighthouse Inn on Lighthouse Road, where a lighthouse was assembled in 1855 and was in service until 1914. Kelly's Pond was probably titled for David and Elihu Kelly, who lived close-by in the early 1800s. The region between Kelly's Pond and the Bass River is known as Wrinkle Point. Wrinkle is another word, generally used by locals in days gone by, for periwinkle. Uncle Barney's Road, which runs up Wrinkle Point alongside to the Bass River, was titled for Barnabas Baker, who had a saltworks in the region in the 1800s. South Village was a fishing hamlet in West Dennis amid its early days that is memorialized by South Village Road, Lane, Circle, Drive, and Beach. At one end of South Village Road is Trotting Park Road, which took its name from the prominent race track that was off the street in the late 1800s. At the northern end of the road is a home titled Jericho. It was assembled by Captain Theophilus Baker in 1801, and was purchased in the 20th century by Virginia Gildersleeve and Elizabeth Reynard. They gave the home its present name because its walls were about to come "tumbling down," but they made repairs and gave the home to the Town in 1962. All the enhance beaches in Dennis are owned by the town. On the Northside, Corporation Beach and Howes Street Beach are on the same strip of enhance beach. The same goes for Mayflower Beach and Bayview* Beach, and Cold Storage* Beach and Sea Street Beach. On the Northside, the town also owns two beaches on Scargo Lake: Scargo Beach and Princess Beach. The Southside beaches are Glendon Beach, Haigis Beach, Inman Road Beach, Raycroft Beach, Metcalfe Memorial Beach, West Dennis Beach, South Village Beach, and Sea Street Beach. However, every beach (except those with a *) charges a non-resident parking fee of $20 per day or $75 per week. Residents (Dennis taxpayers) can buy beach parking stickers with proof of residency for $30 for the season. Bass River Park in West Dennis offers fine views of Bass River and the boating activeness there. Popular children's playgrounds are found at the Baker School in West Dennis, at the West Dennis Community Building, and at the village green in Dennis Port. Dennis is crossed from east to west by Cape Cod's three chief routes, U.S. (It is debatable that Route 134 is a Massachusetts state highway; it was technically the "East-West Dennis Road (Route 134)... Technically a Massachusetts state highway has to cross town lines and the East-West Dennis Road does not. In addition it is called the East West Dennis Road because it "connects" East Dennis to West Dennis, not because it runs from east to west as stated to the compass.) East of the Route 134 exit, Route 6 (also known as the Mid-Cape Highway) downgrades from a four-lane divided highway to a two-lane limited access highway, divided only by markers. The town of Dennis is governed by an open town meeting form of government, and is led by a board of selectmen, which delegates day-to-day operations to a town administrator. The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Cape and Islands District, which includes all of Cape Cod (except the suburbs of Bourne, Falmouth, and Sandwich), and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The town is patrolled by the Second (Yarmouth) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police. Wixon Middle School, which serves grades 4 and 5 from Dennis and Yarmouth and Mattacheese Middle school serves grades 6 and 7 from Dennis and Yarmouth. "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Dennis town, Barnstable County, Massachusetts". Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, pp. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. Greene, Sachse & Mc - Cauley 2006, p. 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