Eastham, Cape Cod

One of the four original settlements on Cape Cod, Eastham, Massachusetts remains relatively undiscovered.

There is no formal Main Street or identifiable town center here – though visitors are drawn here by the National Seashore’s Headquarters at the Salt Pond Visitors Center and by the dune-backed expanses of Coast Guard Beach and Nauset Light Beach on the open Atlantic Ocean.

The Cape’s oldest remaining windmill, the historical society’s museum and the Swift-Daley House bear witness to the town’s antiquity, along with First Encounter Beach along Cape Cod Bay, where Myles Standish and his Pilgrim scouting party first met the Nauset Indians in 1620.

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