Aptucxet Trading Post Museum - Bourne Museum

  • Address: 24 Aptucxet Road,Bourne, MA 02532-5434
  • Phone: +1 508 759 9487
  • Website:boston.citysearch.com
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Aptucxet Trading Post Museum
24 Aptucxet Road
Bourne, MA 02532-5434

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  • Long before the Canal was a twinkle in Myles Standish's (and later, George Washington's) eye, Native Americans had been portaging goods between two rivers, the Manomet and Scusset, that once almost met at this site; its name in Algonquian means "little trap in the river." The Pilgrims were quick to notice that Aptucxet made an ideal trading spot, especially since, as Gov. William Bradford pointed out, it would allow them to trade with the Dutch to the south without "the compassing of Cape-Codd and those dangerous shoulds [shoals]." In ... more on frommers.com
  • A monument to the birth of commerce in the New World, the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum was erected on the foundation of the original post archaeologically excavated in the 1920s. Here, in 1627, Plimoth Plantation leaders established a way station between the Native American encampment at Great Herring Pond 3 mi to the northeast, ... more on Fodor's

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