Falmouth, Massachusetts Falmouth, Massachusetts Nobska Lighthouse, Falmouth Nobska Lighthouse, Falmouth Official seal of Falmouth, Massachusetts Falmouth (pronunciation: / f lm / fal-mith) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States; Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod.
The populace was 31,532 at the 2010 census, making Falmouth the second-largest municipality on Cape Cod after Barnstable.
The terminal for the Steamship Authority ferries to Martha's Vineyard is positioned in the village of Woods Hole in Falmouth.
Woods Hole also contains a several scientific organizations such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), the Woods Hole Research Center, the Woods Hole Science Aquarium, and the scientific establishments' various exhibitions.
For geographic and demographic knowledge on specific parts of the town of Falmouth, please see the articles on East Falmouth, Falmouth Village, North Falmouth, Teaticket, West Falmouth, and Woods Hole.
Falmouth also encompasses the villages of Hatchville and Waquoit, which are not census-designated places and fall inside the village of East Falmouth based on postal service.
In 1837, Falmouth averaged about 50 sheep per square mile.
Falmouth saw brief action in the War of 1812, when the region around Falmouth Heights, on its southern coast, was bombarded by a several British frigates and ships of the line, and Massachusetts militia hastily entrenched themselves on the beaches to repulse a possible British landing which never came.
By 1872, the train had come to Falmouth and Woods Hole, and some of the first summer homes were established.
In 1965, Robert Manry sailed from Falmouth aboard his 13.5-foot (4.1 m) sailboat and reached Falmouth, England, 78 days later.
The town of Falmouth has seven historic districts, including four on the National Register of Historic Places: North Falmouth Village West Falmouth Village In addition to the historic districts, Falmouth has ten individual sites on the National Register: Falmouth Pumping Station Offshore Falmouth in Buzzards Bay, Cleveland East Ledge Light is listed with the National Register.
Juniper Point, the easterly point of Woods Hole in Falmouth According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 54.4 square miles (141.0 km2), of which 44.1 square miles (114.1 km2) is territory and 10.3 square miles (26.8 km2), or 19.04%, is water. Most of Falmouth, like the rest of Cape Cod, sits on glacial sands composed of glacial outwash deposits.
Falmouth lies on the southwestern tip of Cape Cod.
At its closest point, Falmouth is approximately 560 yards (510 m) from Nonamesset Island, the easternmost island of the town of Gosnold and the Elizabeth Islands.
Falmouth is approximately 14 miles (23 km) south of the Bourne Bridge, 22 miles (35 km) west of Barnstable, and 77 miles (124 km) south-southeast of Boston.
Falmouth's topography is similar to the rest of Cape Cod's, with many small ponds, creeks, and inlets surrounded by the pines and oaks of the Cape and often rocky beachfront.
Falmouth's southern shore is notable for a series of ponds and rivers spaced very closely together, all of which travel some distance into the town.
These include, from west to east, Falmouth Inner Harbor, Little Pond, Great Pond (which leads to the Dexter and Coonamesset rivers), Green Pond, Bourne's Pond, Eel Pond (which leads to the Childs River), and Waquoit Bay, which lies along the Mashpee town line.
The Buzzards Bay shore of Falmouth is punctuated by a number of hamlets, including, from north to south, Megansett, New Silver Beach, Old Silver, Chappaquoit, Sippewisset, Quissett, and Woods Hole.
Falmouth's chief road is Massachusetts Route 28, which runs south from Bourne as a divided highway, then becomes a surface road and heads east through downtown as Main Street, then turns northeast through East Falmouth before crossing into Mashpee.
Route 151 runs east west through the northern section of the town, connecting North Falmouth and Hatchville with Mashpee. Falmouth is home to The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority.
The Massachusetts Coastal Railroad provides rail freight service to North Falmouth, where a spur runs into Otis Air Base to serve a trash transfer station.
Also, as of a June 25, 2009 capecodonline.com article, the business plans to re-extend passenger barns service to the town, complete with dinner and tourist trains, though this will also be only to North Falmouth, due to the fact that the other 8 miles (13 km) of barns track had been replaced with the current Shining Sea Bikeway.
On November 21, 2009, North Falmouth saw its first passenger train in at least 12 years.
Falmouth is also served by the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority bus routes. Falmouth is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of two districts, the Third Barnstable (which also includes portions of Barnstable, Bourne and Mashpee), and the Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket District, which includes all of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Gosnold.
The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Plymouth and Barnstable district, which includes Bourne, Kingston, Pembroke, Plymouth, and Sandwich. The town is patrolled by the Seventh (Bourne) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police. On the nationwide level, Falmouth is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, and is presently represented by Bill Keating. Falmouth is governed by the representative town meeting form of government with 9 precincts of 27 members each serving three-year terms and is led by a five-member board of selectmen serving rotating three-year terms.
There are chapters in North and East Falmouth, and private libraries in West Falmouth and Woods Hole which are open to the public.
Falmouth is also the site of Falmouth Hospital, which serves the Upper Cape region. Falmouth's enhance school fitness serves about 4,500 students annual.
There are four schools, East Falmouth, Mullen-Hall, North Falmouth, and Teaticket, which serve the elementary school population, from pre-kindergarten to fourth grade.
Falmouth High School covers grades 9-12.
The enhance schools are supported in part by the Volunteers in Public Schools (VIPS), various PTO associations, the Falmouth Scholarship Association, the Falmouth Education Foundation (FEF), the Falmouth STEM Boosters and the Woods Hole Science Technology Partnership.
Falmouth is also the home of a private school, Falmouth Academy, serving grades 7 through 12.
Falmouth high school students may also choose to attend the Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Bourne no-charge of charge.
The Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League play at Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field from mid-June to early August.
Falmouth is the home of its namesake Falmouth Road Race, an annual race started in 1973 that draws over 10,000 runners from all over the world.
The race runs 7 miles (11 km) from the village of Woods Hole to Falmouth Heights Beach in downtown Falmouth.
Other establishments include the Falmouth Theatre Guild and the Cape Cod Theatre Project.
In addition to theatre, there is the Cape Cod Conservatory and the Falmouth Arts Guild. Falmouth holds a annual Christmas parade in the month of December that runs along Main Street in downtown Falmouth.
Congressman from Elmira, New York; Fassett's Point in West Falmouth and the town of Fassett, Quebec, are titled after him Paul Harney, former experienced PGA golfer, resided in Falmouth and owned the Paul Harney Golf Club in Hatchville Bill Polian, president of the Indianapolis Colts, spends his summers in Falmouth During the 1970s and 1980s, it was identified that the groundwater in some areas of Falmouth had been contaminated by toxic chemicals linked to the disposal of jet fuel, solvents, industrialized chemicals, and other substances on the Massachusetts Military Reservation, now known as Joint Base Cape Cod.
Plumes of groundwater pollution that reached into Falmouth contaminated homehold well water in some neighborhoods and forced the town to shut down a enhance well in 1975 that accounted for 25% of the town's enhance waterworks.
Falmouth Patch.com.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Falmouth town, Barnstable County, Massachusetts".
Town of Falmouth, Historical Commission Town of Falmouth, Historic Districts Commission "1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"Air Force reacts to contaminated Falmouth water wells".
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Town of Falmouth official website Falmouth Historical Society
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