๐บ๐ธ Truro is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. It is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the "Outer Cape". English colonists named it after Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
The historic Wampanoag Native American people called the area Pamet or Payomet. Their language was part of the large Algonquian family. This name was adopted for the Pamet River and the harbor area around the town centre known as the Pamet Roads.
Over half of the land area of the town is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore, established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, and administered by the U.S. National Park Service.
Cape Cod was the territory of successive cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years before Europeans arrived. At the time of English colonization, the Wampanoag tribe was the dominant one on Cape Cod, numbering about 7,000 by early accounts. They used the cape and its waters for hunting, fishing and gathering shellfish. They also cultivated maize to supplement their diets and to store for winter eating.
The English Pilgrims stopped in Truro and Provincetown in 1620 as their original choice for a landing before later deciding the area to be unsuitable. While there, they discovered fresh water and corn stored by the Wampanoag. Historians debate the accuracy of the account about the latter discovery, but in popular lore it led to the place being called Corn Hill.
Truro was settled by English immigrant colonists in the 1690s as the northernmost portion of the town of Eastham. The town was officially separated and incorporated in 1709. Fishing, whaling and shipbuilding made up the town's early industry. These industries had to shift to other locations as the harsh tides of the Lower Cape reduced the town's main port in the 1850s. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Cape Cod was a popular location for artists because of its light.
Today, Truro is one of the more exclusive towns on the Cape, noted for its affluent residences and the rolling hills and dunes along the coast. Truro is the site of the Highland Light (also known as the Cape Cod Light), the earliest lighthouse on Cape Cod. The first building was erected in 1797; the current lighthouse was built in 1857. The entire 430-ton light was moved about 1โ10 of a mile inland in 1996. By then, because of erosion, its original site was just ten yards from the edge of the shore cliffs.
The topography generally slopes downward from the Atlantic to Cape Cod Bay, and from south to north. There are several small ponds throughout town, all of which combined are smaller than the Pilgrim Lake, just east of the Provincetown town line, and just south of the sand dunes which make up most of the northern tip of the Cape. Pamet Harbor, a small inlet, is in the southern half of the town on the Cape Cod Bay side, and leads to the Pamet River. Just south of the lighthouse is a Coast Guard radar station, equipped with a Doppler radar tower, close to the nearby Jenny Lind Tower.
Transport U.S. Routeย 6 (USย 6) is the main route through town, traveling through the town from south to north on its way to Provincetown. The "second" portion of the Cape's Massachusetts Route 6A (Routeย 6A) begins in the town, tracing the original path of USย 6, and traveling into Provincetown barely 250 feet (76ย m) south of the main route. There is no rail or air service in the town; the nearest regional airport is located in neighboring Provincetown. The nearest national and international air service can be found at Logan International Airport in Boston.
Truro has a population of over 2,454 people. Truro also forms part of the wider Barnstable County which has a population of over 228,996 people. Truro is situated near Barnstable.
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Truro, England๐ฎ๐น Guidonia Montecelio 42
๐บ๐ธ Hanover Township 42.017
๐บ๐ธ Schaumburg 42.017
๐ฒ๐ฐ Kisela Voda 41.98
๐บ๐ธ Cedar Rapids 41.978
๐ช๐ธ La Bisbal d'Empordร 41.95
๐ฆ๐ผ Oranjestad -70.033
๐ฉ๐ด Santo Domingo Oeste -70.007
๐ฉ๐ด Santo Domingo -69.913
๐ฉ๐ด Santo Domingo Este -69.867
๐ฉ๐ด San Cristรณbal -70.1
๐ป๐ช Punto Fijo -70.183
๐ฉ๐ด San Francisco de Macorรญs -70.25
๐บ๐ธ South Portland -70.267
Locations Near: Truro -70.056,41.9987
๐บ๐ธ Barnstable -70.3,41.7 d: 38.9
๐บ๐ธ Plymouth -70.664,41.956 d: 50.5
๐บ๐ธ East Weymouth -70.917,42.217 d: 75
๐บ๐ธ South Weymouth -70.953,42.155 d: 76.1
๐บ๐ธ Weymouth -70.94,42.221 d: 77
๐บ๐ธ New Bedford -70.927,41.635 d: 82.8
๐บ๐ธ Brockton -71.017,42.085 d: 79.9
๐บ๐ธ Quincy -71,42.25 d: 82.7
Antipodal to: Truro 109.944,-41.999
๐ฆ๐บ Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 18929.1
๐ฆ๐บ Albany 117.867,-35.017 d: 18977.8
๐ฆ๐บ Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 18845.3
๐ฆ๐บ Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 18818.8
๐ฆ๐บ City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 18804.2
๐ฆ๐บ Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 18781.5
๐ฆ๐บ Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 18780.7
๐ฆ๐บ Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 18771.7