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Cape Cod National Seashore: The First 50 Years (Images of America)

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When Pres. John F. Kennedy established the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961, it was once acclaimed as the “finest victory ever recorded for the reason for conservation in New England.” When erosion and overdevelopment threatened the Cape, the theory of a national seashore took hold, without end protecting this treasured place. The park preserves 44,000 acres of forest, marsh, bog, and ponds, and a 40-mile stretch from Provincetown to Chatham, which Henry David Thoreau referred to as the “Great Beach.” Unlike other national parks on the time, the Cape Cod National Seashore was once constituted of a combination of personal, the town, state, and federal lands. Cape Cod National Seashore: The First 50 Years captures the political drama of the creation of this strange seashore. Images detail an early Native American presence and the romance of whaling, shipwrecks, lighthouses, windmills, and dune shacks.

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