About our town
Located some seventy-five miles out into the Atlantic Ocean on the outer arm of Cape Cod, the Town of Wellfleet offers an abundance of quaint rural seaside character and charm and spectacular natural resources. Bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the west by Cape Cod Bay, 61% of the land area of
Wellfleet's History
The area now within the limits of Wellfleet was originally part of the grant by the Court of New Plymouth to "those that goe to dwell at Nossett" (Eastham) made in 1644 and later extended in 1654 and 1674 to include virtually all of the Outer Cape. Sometime before 1644, the colonists of Plymouth and Duxbury
