Sandy Neck Cultural Resources District

Sandy Neck Cultural Resources District is a historic district in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Sandy Neck is a long spit of land extending east-west on the northern shore of the lower portion of Cape Cod, sheltering Barnstable Harbor. This area has a fairly lengthy history of human occupation, including archaeological prehistoric and colonial historic resources. Archaeological research in the 1960s identified shell middens dating from the pre-contact Woodland Period.[2]

Sandy Neck Cultural Resources District
LocationBarnstable, Massachusetts
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Queen Anne
MPSBarnstable MRA
NRHP reference No.87000305[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 10, 1987

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

See also

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "Current Research". American Antiquity (Volume 31, No. 4): 601. April 1966. JSTOR 2694414.


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