15 May: Cape Cod

Today is Cape Cod Discovery Day, because it was on this date in 1602 that the English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold discovered it. 10 facts about the place:

1. Cape Cod is a peninsula in Massachusetts. It has technically been an island since 1914, separated from the mainland by a canal. The official name for the area is Barnstable County.
2. The area was initially a centre of whaling and international trade, but these days it's a popular tourist destination. The islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard lie off its coast.
3. Cape Cod has more lighthouses than any other county in the USA.
4. It's home to the tallest granite structure in the US – a 225 foot high monument erected in Provincetown by the early settlers to commemorate their landing there.
5. As well as Provincetown, principle towns include Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, Barnstaple, Yarmouth, Harwich, Chatham and Truro.
6. Children's author Thornton Burgess was from Sandwich.
7. Kurt Vonnegut had a Saab dealership in West Barnstaple, but business was quite slow and it's said he wrote Sirens of Titan on quiet days.
8. It's a popular place to retire to, and 25% of the population are retired.
9. Harwich is said to be the birthplace of the cranberry industry.
10. The Bourne Historical Society is in possession of a slab of granite, once a doorstep to a meeting house, with some writing on it, but they haven't been able to decipher what is says or even work out which language it's written in.

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