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    Sandwich:: Cape Cod's Oldest Town
    Sandwich:: Cape Cod's Oldest Town
    Sandwich:: Cape Cod's Oldest Town
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    Sandwich:: Cape Cod's Oldest Town

    By Marion R. Vuilleumier

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    Known as the place where glassblowers produced masterpieces for international markets in the 1800s and where some of New England's oldest homes still stand, Sandwich is a vibrant community rich in history. Founded in 1637, this gateway town to Cape Cod is actually a time capsule of the last four centuries, from prehistory, when it was the territory of the Native American Wampanoags, to the tourist destination and bedroom community of Boston and Providence it is today. In Sandwich: Cape Cod's Oldest Town, the reader will be taken on a historical journey to enchanting places, such as the Sandwich Glass Museum, featuring masterpieces from the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company of the mid-1800s, and Heritage Plantation's seventy-six acres of landscaped gardens and antique displays, including a working 1912 carousel. Visit the Green Briar Nature Center, which produces jam made by the sun; a museum featuring native son Thornton W. Burgess's "Briar Patch" children's stories; the venerable, classic saltbox-type Hoxie House, where life in those earliest years is re-created; and the Wing and Nye homesteads, which in summer represent several centuries of Sandwich culture and history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439628256
    Sandwich:: Cape Cod's Oldest Town
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    Marion R. Vuilleumier

    A resident of Cape Cod since 1960, historian Marion R. Vuilleumier is the author of twenty books. She has been intrigued with this area's history since, as a child, she learned of her Mayflower ancestry. With the assistance of local archivists, she has compiled fascinating photographs that bring alive the story of one of New England's earliest towns.

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      Sandwich: - Marion R. Vuilleumier

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      INTRODUCTION

      In 1637, when 10 men of Saugus were given permission by the leaders of Plimoth Colony to establish Sandwich, the first town on Cape Cod, they found a verdant landscape dotted with ponds and veined with streams. It was bounded on the north by Cape Cod Bay and on the west and southwest by another body of water, since the territory then included the present-day town of Bourne. Soon the settlers had cut the virgin forest and built homes, a meetinghouse, a mill, and a tavern. Fishing and farming provided a good living, and trading developed with Plimoth and other nearby towns. Soon corn and lumber were transported by boat to other towns on Cape Cod Bay, while flocks of sheep trotted along cartways, bringing their mutton to market. In this atmosphere, Sandwich grew and thrived as more people came. Each year, residents plowed their fields and reaped harvests from the sea and the land in this pastoral setting.

      Those early residents would have never imagined that nearly two centuries later this bucolic atmosphere would change into that of a bustling factory town and this shift would be the first of many increasingly rapid changes to come in the years ahead.

      By the late 1700s, Bostonians had discovered that Sandwich, a town often visited by lawyer and congressman Daniel Webster, was a relaxing place to escape hectic Boston and enjoy hunting and fishing. Visiting businessmen also saw in the wooded hills and flashing streams... fuel here, water power there, and smokestacks and factories everywhere, according to Harriot Barbour in Sandwich: The Town That Glass Built. One of these entrepreneurs was glass manufacturer Deming Jarves, who noted an inexhaustible supply of fuel for his fires, an abundant supply of salt marsh hay for packing, and a navigable creek for raw materials and finished goods.

      Quietly, his agent visited locals, purchasing 3,000 acres of woodland and 300 acres near the creek. In 1825, at a special town meeting, Jarves surprised the residents with his plans for the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, promising work for the townsfolk. Three months later, the Industrial Revolution arrived in Sandwich, when Jarves wrote, Ground was broken in April, dwellings for workmen built, and manufactory complete, and on the 4th day of July 1825, they commenced blowing glass. At its peak, the factory employed about 500 workers, with professional glassblowers brought from overseas. For the next 63 years, smoke from the factory’s chimneys hung like a pall over the town, but its products gave the opposite effect, for the jewel-like blown, pressed, and cut glass made Sandwich famous both in this country and abroad.

      Soon the new company attracted support services and other small businesses. Some were a tag factory, a braiding company, a tack factory, the Boston & Sandwich Boot and Shoe Company, blacksmith shops, an iron foundry, and a factory making wagons, carts, and sleighs. Other glassmakers opened factories also: the Packwood-Northwood Glass Company and the Cape Cod Glass Works. The latter establishment was built and owned by Deming Jarves and a few shareholders.

      A century or so later, the population of Sandwich had spread into eight villages and there was talk of dividing the town, since it was such a distance to churches and polling places. By then, a dredge was digging a much-talked-about canal, which had been suggested by Pilgrim governor William Bradford in the 1600s and by Gen. George Washington in the 1700s. They had noted that only eight miles separated the two bays, and a canal between would save ships the hazardous trip around Cape

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