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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 416 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARNSTABLE , a seaport township and the See also:

county-seat of the county of the same name, in See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A. Pop. (1900) 4364, of whom 391 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910, U. S.' See also:census) 4676. Barnstable is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford Railway. It is situated between Cape See also:Cod See also:Bay on the N. and See also:Nantucket See also:Sound on the S., extending across Cape Cod. The See also:soil of the township, unlike that of other parts of the county, is well adapted to See also:agriculture, and the See also:principal See also:industry is the growing of vegetables and the supplying of See also:milk and poultry for its several villages, nearly all of which are summer resorts. At Hyannis is a See also:state normal school (1897; co-educational). Cranberries are raised in large quantities, and there are See also:oyster and other See also:shell See also:fisheries. In the 17th See also:century the See also:mackerel and See also:whale fisheries were the basis of economic See also:life; the latter gave way later to the cod and other fisheries, but the fishing industry is now relatively unimportant. Much of the county is a region of sands, See also:salt-marshes, See also:beach-grass and scattered See also:woods. From 1865 to 1895 the county diminished 20.1 % in See also:population.

Barnstable was settled and incorporated in 1639 (county created 1685), and includes among its natives See also:

James See also:Otis and Lemuel See also:Shaw. See F. See also:Freeman, The See also:History of Cape Cod: the See also:Annals of Barnstable County (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1858, 1862 ; and other impressions 186o to 1869).

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