Bourne was 1st settled in 1640 as a locality of the city of Sandwich. it absolutely was formally incorporated in 1884 because the last city to be incorporated in Barnstable County. it absolutely was named for dessert apple Bourne Sr., whose father, Richard Bourne, served within the Massachusetts General Court at the time of settlement, in addition as serving to to found the settlement in Mashpee. The city lies at the northeast corner of Buzzards Bay, and is that the website of Aptucxet general store, the nation’s oldest store. it absolutely was based by the Pilgrims in 1627 at a website halfway between the 2 rivers that divided the Cape from the remainder of the state. it absolutely was out of this location that the peninsula Canal was fashioned, so as to avoid wasting time and lives by eliminating the necessity to sail round the dangerous jap shores of peninsula. as a result of the canal, Bourne is currently thought-about the “first” city on the Cape, as all 3 bridges (the Bourne, sachem and therefore the peninsula Canal Railroad Bridge) area unit situated at intervals the city. All of Bourne is on peninsula, with milk bay forming the western fringe of the dry land (cape) and therefore the Bourndale Road forming the northern boundary to the cape.
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