A View From The Chair: December 2011 By Terry Blake Chairperson, SHC, 2011 Looking Back As 2011 draws to a close the Sandwich Historical Commission finds itself weighing the merits of two controversial issues and pursuing another that few people considered an issue at all. The request from the Sandwich [...]
A View From The Chair: March 2012 By Terry Blake Chairperson, SHC, 2012 Update March 24, 2012: Many thanks to everyone who attended the events yesterday. Because of you, the day was a success. Please check back for further updates. [Original 2012 post follows.] I want to thank the members [...]
By Bill Daley Timothy Ruggles of Sandwich was a prominent leader in the Massachusetts colony during the time immediately preceding the American Revolution in 1775. Had he not been a Loyalist, he might have been one of the founding fathers of the new nation. He was born in Rochester, Massachusetts [...]
Three articles honoring Sandwich's Civil War veterans The Right Arm of Old Massachusetts On the morning of May 18, 1861, in front of Sandwich Town Hall, Major Sylvanus Phinney presented Captain Charles Chipman of Company D, 29th Massachusetts, with a blue flag that read “The Right Arm of Old Massachusetts. [...]
By Mary Stanley The Sandwich Enterprise | April 22, 2011
DID YOU KNOW?
Sandwich is the oldest town on Cape Cod. It was colonized in 1637 and incorporated in 1639.
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