Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Cape Cod Historical Web Sites
by L. Ray Sears, III
Have you ever noticed when you use the web search engines for Cape Cod History and Genealogy that you get back far too many results? Many of them are duplicates and many others are not germain. Here are some web links that I have gleaned to increase the chance of you actually finding something
List of interesting items in the Cape Cod Times Time Capsule
CapeOne.com
Links to other sites
Fam history links
Barnaby, Jennings, Small Families
List of Churches
History of Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod
History overview by a visiting group
History snapshot since the earth cooled
List of books recommended by the CC Chamber of Commerce
Hyannis Chamber
JFK Museum Old Town Hall 397 Main St. Tel: 508-790-3077
General History
Chatham Historical Society chs2002@msn.com
Cape Cod Children's Museum, Mashpee
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Green Briar Nature Center (BUrgess Museum)
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Research on Sears Family of Cape Cod
Heritage Plantation , Sandwich
Sandwich Glass Museum 508-888-0251. 129 Main St, Sandwich, MA 02563
Provincetown Art Association & Museum 508-487-1750. 460 Commercial St, Provincetown, MA 02657
New England Fire & History Museum 508-896-5711. 1439 Main St, Brewster, MA 02631
Cahoon Museum of American Art 508-428-7581. 4676 Falmouth Rd (Rte 28) (Near the intersection of Rtes 28 & 130) Cotuit, MA
Barnstable Patriot Archive
Nelson, Elna{12 Oct 2000}
CC Times History Archive
The Cape Cod Times is a great place to search for historical information. Their on line files include many tidbits since 1997. The problem once again is too many results. I typed in "history" and got 200 pages of 5000 results, many duplications. Here is what I have found to be useful to us in the first 250 results. I also tried +cape +history as a search criteria but that seems to choke the engine.
Search
Museum of Natural History
Family Medical Tree
1997
Mashpee Hist Preservation{8 Aug}
Nancy Reid Dennis, Cape Cod{25 Aug}
Whaling History{16 Sep}
Forestdale School{24 Sep}
Library Spec. Coll.{3 Nov}
1998
Buttermilk Bay Manse{5 Jan}
Maritime Symposium{6 May}
Wampanoag Legacy{27 Sep}
Hyannis Vehicle Restore{17 Nov}
1999
Mass Maritime Academy{16 Jan}
Highfield Hall, Falmouth{24 Jan}
Knowle's House{17 Feb}
Mashpee Archives{2 Mar}
Bacon Farm, Barnstable{4 Apr}
Tales of Cape Cod{17 Jun}
Sea Education Association{5 Jul}
Mashpee Craftsman{16 Aug}
Cable Station{13 Oct}
Pilgrims{11 Nov}
2000
Ayling, Charles, Centerville Legacy Vuilleumier, Marion , writer
Time Capsule{2 Jan}
Civil Rights{30 Jan}
Fiction, Lady Washington{22 Jan}
Aptuxcet Trading Post{9 Mar}
Falmouth Hist Soc{18 Mar}
Maritime History{4 Apr}
Town Meeting{9 Apr}
Dennis Town Clerk, Slade{14 May}
Ptown History Straight{20 May}
Memorial Day{29 May}
Heritage Week{7 Jun}
CC Baseball League{29 Jun}
Mashpee History{30 Jun}
Camp Edwards WWII{19 Aug}
Vikings{11 Sep}
2001
Provincetown Heritage Museum{12 Feb}
Digging Cape Cod{4 Mar}
Mashpee Schoolhouse{28 Apr}
Food History{24 May}
Quilt History{15 Jun}
Right Whale{1 Jul}
Death of capecodhistory.org website{7 Jul}
Obits- at the Cape Cod Times are very useful. Just enter the year/mon/day/obit that you want to see in the URL
Pick a Year Month and Day to see CC Times Obits-e.g.
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/archives/2001/jan/9/obit.htm
Site to replace the capecodhistory.org site which died- capecodhistory.com
History of Commercial Ventures
History of Cuffy's since 1981
Vanished - HIstory of "Box Lunch" since 1977 - Google cache
List of Videos