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Cotuit
Harbor
Item # 99
Watercolor
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Cotuit,
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Cotuit is an Indian name meaning long fields or planting fields.
Sachem Paupemtuck of the South Sea Indians sold the land in
the mid-seventeenth century to John Alden for the princely price
of two brass kettles and a hoe. It was from this, that the Kettleers,
the Cotuit baseball team was named.
The town took off between 1840 and 1900 based on oysters and
shipbuilding with farming,of course, as the nutritional backbone
of the community. It's not "COT-you-wit" by the way, but "ka-TOO-it."
You can imagine those century-ago times by looking at Karen's
harbor landscape. |
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