| LC control no. | n 82020780 |
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| Geographic heading | Wellfleet (Mass.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Massachusetts--Wellfleet |
| Variant(s) | North Wellfleet (Mass.) Pamet (Mass.) Pononakanet (Mass.) Poole (Mass.) Port aux Huitres (Mass.) Saint Suzanne de Cap Blanc (Mass.) Skeekeet (Mass.) Willfleet (Mass.) |
| See also | Billingsgate (Mass.) |
| Found in | GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 41°56ʹ15ʺN 070°01ʹ58ʺW) GNIS, Nov. 5, 2010 (Wellfleet--PPL, 41°56ʹ15ʺN 70°01ʹ58ʺW, variants: Belinsgate, Billingsgate, North Wellfleet, Pamet, Pononakanet, Poole, Port aux Huitres, Saint Suzanne de Cap Blanc, Skeekeet, Willfleet; on Lower Cape Cod at the head of Wellfleet Harbor; Barnstable County) Wellfleet, Massachusetts Web site, Nov. 5, 2010 (first permanent settlement in this area was made in the 1650's; by the second decade of the eighteenth century, the inhabitants of the "hamlet of Billingsgate" began to think of establishing themselves as a separate town; in 1763 the General Court established the North Precinct of Eastham as a separate district to be known as Wellfleet) |
| Geographic area code | n-us-ma |
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