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52-686: This back road bikeway follows various state parkways, highways, and town roads and bike paths. Nearly all of the roads along the bikeway are paved and leave enough room to comfortably ride in a bike lane. The only exception is on the Sagamore Bridge where you must walk your bicycle due to state safety regulations. It passes near many state parks south of Boston, including Blue Hills Reservation , Ames Nowell State Park , Pilgrim Memorial State Park , Myles Standish State Forest , Scusset Beach State Reservation , Nickerson State Park , and Cape Cod National Seashore . Turn by turn directions are given for

104-408: A Northeastern Oak / Pine ( 110 ) vegetation type with a Southern Mixed Forest ( 26 ) vegetation form. As of the census of 2000, there were 18,721 people, 7,439 households, and 5,013 families residing in the town. The population density was 457.6 inhabitants per square mile (176.7/km ). There were 9,648 housing units at an average density of 235.8 per square mile (91.0/km ). The racial makeup of

156-470: A female householder with no husband present, and 22.6% were non-families. 26.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.90. In the town, the population was spread out, with 21.9% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 17.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

208-715: A part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district , and is currently represented by Bill Keating . The state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate , elected in 2012, is Elizabeth Warren . The junior (Class II) senator, Edward Markey , was elected in 2013. The town uses the open town meeting form of government, which is led by a board of selectmen . Members of the Board of Selectmen are Mary Jane Mastrangelo – Chair, Melissa A Ferretti – Vice Chair, Jeanne Azarovitz – Clerk, Peter J Meier - Senior Tenured Member and Anne Marie Siroonian. The town hall, like

260-558: A short while and then turns onto Carver St. It eventually turns into South St. then onto Franklin St., continuing into Plympton . It travels down Center St. towards MA 58 where it is joined going south into the town center before turning onto Mayflower St. It continues on Colchester Rd. and Brook St. before becoming Elm St. in Kingston where it joins MA 80 for four miles heading down into Plymouth . It turns onto Carver St. and continues past

312-672: A third district which includes portions of Falmouth and Mashpee. The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Plymouth and Barnstable district, which includes Falmouth, Kingston, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Sandwich, and portions of Barnstable. The town is home to the Seventh Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police . On the national level, Bourne is

364-686: A true limited-access highway. Route 3, also known as the Pilgrims Highway, ends at the junction of Route 6, just prior to the Sagamore Bridge. Up until 2006, the intersection was a rotary, which caused daily traffic nightmares during the busy summer tourist season. The rotary was removed in 2007. The third bridge over the Canal is the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge , a vertical lift bridge. Freight rail service

416-524: Is approximately 30 inches (76 cm). The average snowiest month is February, which corresponds with the annual peak in nor'easter activity. According to the United States Department of Agriculture , the plant hardiness zone is 6b, with an average annual extreme minimum temperature of −1.0 °F (−18.3 °C). According to the A. W. Kuchler U.S. Potential natural vegetation Types, Bourne, Massachusetts would primarily contain

468-695: Is home to the Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School , located off Sandwich Road . The school serves Bourne, Falmouth and Sandwich on the Cape, as well as Wareham and Marion (off Cape). The town also has a private school: The Bridgeview School in Sagamore, a private Montessori school serving Pre-K through 6th grades. It formerly had the Waldorf School of Cape Cod, which was a Waldorf school located just south of

520-761: Is located along Otis's northern boundary. There are also many beaches along its shores, mostly along Buzzards Bay (although Sagamore Beach lies along Cape Cod Bay). According to the Köppen climate classification system, Bourne, Massachusetts has a warm-summer, wet year round, humid continental climate ( Dfb ). Dfb climates are characterized by at least one month having an average mean temperature ≤ 32.0 °F (≤ 0.0 °C), at least four months with an average mean temperature ≥ 50.0 °F (≥ 10.0 °C), all months with an average mean temperature ≤ 71.6 °F (≤ 22.0 °C), and no significant precipitation difference between seasons. The average seasonal (Nov-Apr) snowfall total

572-557: Is on Cape Cod, Buzzards Bay and Sagamore Beach being the villages that are on the mainland side with Buttermilk Bay forming the western edge of the peninsula (cape) and the Bourndale Road forming the northern boundary to the cape. Bourne is the site of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy , a maritime college located at the southern mouth of the canal on the western shore. Otis Air National Guard Base

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624-557: Is partially located in the town. The Air Force Space Command system PAVE PAWS northeast radar is located within Bourne's borders inside Otis Air National Guard Base. Bourne is home to an archaeological curiosity known as the " Bourne stone ", featuring markings whose origin and significance have not been conclusively established. President Grover Cleveland owned a summer estate in Bourne Village, Gray Gables , that served as

676-482: Is plowed in winter, although the sidewalk is sometimes unplowed and unpassable. The bridges to the Cape are sometimes closed for safety during high winds. Bourne, Massachusetts Bourne ( / b ɔːr n / BORN ) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts , United States. The population was 20,452 at the 2020 census. For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of

728-773: Is provided by the Massachusetts Coastal Railroad . The town is part of the MBTA district and is directly served by the seasonal CapeFlyer at Buzzards Bay station and Bourne station . The closest MBTA Commuter Rail stations are Middleborough/Lakeville and Kingston/Route 3 , which provide direct service to Boston. The nearest inter-city ( Amtrak ) passenger rail stations are Boston's South Station and Providence . The Cape Cod Central Railroad operates seasonal tourist excursions from Hyannis to Sagamore , with occasional special excursions to Buzzards Bay village . There are no public air facilities in town;

780-566: The Bourne Bridge were constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , which operates both the bridges and the canal. Both bridges carry four lanes of traffic over a 616 feet (188 m) main span, with a 135 feet (41 m) ship clearance. They opened to traffic on June 22, 1935. The design of the Sagamore and Bourne bridges was later copied in miniature for

832-584: The Cape Cod Canal . There are several necks (the local term for a peninsula ), including Wings Neck and Scraggy Neck , and islands along the shore, which create several small coves and harbors. There are also several small ponds and rivers, all of which (except the Herring River , which feeds directly into the Canal) feed into Buzzards Bay. The largest of these inlets, Buttermilk Bay , lies along

884-696: The Cape Cod Rail Trail through the towns of Harwich , Brewster , Orleans , Eastham , and Wellfleet . The bikeway then makes its way around US 6 through side streets in Truro and finally comes to an end down Commercial Street MA 6A in downtown Provincetown . The entire route is in Barnstable County . This Massachusetts -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sagamore Bridge The Sagamore Bridge in Sagamore, Massachusetts carries Route 6 and

936-540: The Claire Saltonstall Bikeway across the Cape Cod Canal , connecting Cape Cod with the mainland of Massachusetts . It is the more northeastern of two automobile canal crossings, the other being the Bourne Bridge . Most traffic approaching from the north follows Massachusetts Route 3 which ends at Route 6 just north of the bridge, and the bridge provides direct expressway connections from Boston and Interstate 93 . The bridge and its sibling

988-759: The Emerald Necklace . The route intersects at Route 9 and continues down the Jamaicaway . The bikeway has a short congruency with the Arborway before exiting at Centre Street. Going southward, the bikeway flows from Centre Street to VFW Parkway. You must then exit to West Roxbury Parkway at the rotary and pass by the Bellevue MBTA station. Going northward, the bikeway passes by the Bellevue stop and merges onto Centre Street. The route continues down

1040-564: The Summer White House from 1893 to 1896. The building was destroyed in a fire in 1973. Bourne is located at the western end of Cape Cod , with the Cape Cod Canal cutting across the northern portion of the town. It is bordered by Sandwich to the east, Falmouth to the south, Marion and Wareham to the west, and Plymouth and Cape Cod Bay to the north. The town lies approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Barnstable , 55 miles (89 km) south-southeast of Boston , and

1092-408: The "Sagamore Flyover". This project had been delayed for many years because of a controversy about the disruption of homes and businesses in the area. The project finally commenced because of the severe gridlock at the rotary, which was built to accommodate a much smaller amount of traffic. The flyover was completed in late 2006. The Army Corps of Engineers replaced the bridge deck, the sidewalk, and

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1144-624: The Blue Hills on MA 138 in Milton and continues into Canton , then turns down Randolph St. which becomes Canton St. in Randolph . It is a concurrent with MA 28 into Avon , where it exits onto E. High St. heading towards Boundary St. and eventually N. Quincy St. in Brockton . It intersects MA 123 and MA 27 before continuing straight to the access road for Massasoit Community College. At

1196-777: The Bourne Bridge, serving grades Pre-K through 8. It since has moved to Cotuit, followed by a move to Sandwich, where it serves a smaller range of students. Area Catholic schools of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River include: St. Francis Xavier School in Acushnet , St. Joseph School in Fairhaven , and St. Pius X School in South Yarmouth . Previously Buzzards Bay had its own Catholic grade school, St. Margaret Primary School, which closed in 2020 in

1248-415: The Bourne and Sagamore bridges, and another 24 had attempted but either survived or were apprehended. From 1979 to 1983, as part of "major rehabilitation work," both of the bridges' four-foot high railings were replaced with suicide deterrent fencing. The 12-foot high fencing consists of one-inch round pickets spaced a maximum of six inches apart; the tops of the picket are bent on a seven-inch radius toward

1300-538: The Canalmen and Lady Canalmen. Their logo includes the Railroad Bridge, one of the three bridges crossing the Cape Cod Canal , and the only one that looks different from the other two. Bourne's chief rival is Wareham High School . In the fall of 2009, Bournedale Elementary School opened, closing Otis Memorial Elementary and Ella F. Hoxie School. Bourne High School's sports teams have been very successful in

1352-499: The John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge that connects I-95 from Newburyport to Amesbury, Massachusetts . The bridges replaced a drawbridge which was built before the canal was widened. The original bridge approaches are still visible to the north of the modern bridge, though both approaches are in low-traffic residential areas. Between 1967 and 1977, 36 persons were recorded as having died by suicide from

1404-515: The Sagamore Bridge in Bourne . Riders must use the Sagamore Bridge to cross the Cape Cod Canal , and they must walk their bicycles across the bridge. Access to the bridge is available by going straight on Canal Street just past the Sagamore Park and Ride lot on the right. The bikeway continues following back roads and bike paths for 67 miles on Cape Cod starting in Bourne, coming off

1456-432: The Sagamore Bridge onto Adams St. and Sandwich St. which becomes MA 6A . The route turns onto MA 130 heading into Sandwich and passes under US 6 , then turns onto Service Rd. passing MA 149 and continuing into Barnstable. It joins MA 132 for a short concurrency before turning onto Phinney's Ln. as it rejoins MA 6A . It continues into Yarmouth and Dennis before turning onto Setucket Road and Mayfair Road, then joins

1508-482: The Sagamore and Bourne bridges, originally expected to last only 50 years, needed replacement. The Cape Cod Bridges program is currently taking public input into the multi phased project and have unveiled different design types for feedback. The Sagamore bridge is slated to be replaced with a new span just to the west of the existing span. Construction could begin in 2027 with an estimated time to completion of 8 to 10 years. The existing bridge will remain open during

1560-566: The South Shore Outlaws, were formerly located in Bourne. The largest highways in Bourne are Massachusetts Route 3 , U.S. Route 6 , Massachusetts Route 25 and Massachusetts Route 28 . Routes 6 and 28 enter the town concurrently from Wareham, bypassing Buzzards Bay to the north. At the Buzzards Bay Rotary, the two routes split. Route 6 goes straight ahead and assumes its old alignment as a four-lane highway along

1612-806: The West Roxbury Parkway, Enneking Parkway, and Turtle Pond Parkway before turning onto the Neponset Valley Parkway, which runs through the Readville section of the city. The bikeway exits onto Blue Hill Avenue onto Route 138 and the route makes its way past the Blue Hills Reservation and I-93 into Canton. The route then travels for 55 miles in metro-south Boston and in suburbs in Southeastern Massachusetts. The route travels past

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1664-526: The big intersection (use the rightmost lane) before turning onto Summer St. toward downtown Plymouth. It turns onto MA 3A for half a mile before exiting onto South St. and eventually becoming Long Pond Rd. It passes under MA 3 and continues down toward the Myles Standish State Forest and Plymouth South High School before merging left onto Hedges Pond Rd., where the route will re-meet Route 3A and continue straight onto State Rd. towards

1716-497: The border with Wareham. Because of the large parcel of land occupied by Otis A.N.G.B. in the eastern part of the town, the majority of settlement is either along the shores of the Canal or along Buzzards Bay. There is also a small neighborhood (South Sagamore) located between the Canal and the northern boundaries of the base. Bourne has a town forest and a small portion of the Shawme-Crowell State Forest , which

1768-589: The bridge is the Bourne Rotary, where Sandwich Road intersects. Route 28 continues past the rotary as a four-lane divided highway, officially known as McArthur Boulevard. At the Otis Rotary, the intersection with the road leading to the main gate to Otis Air Force Base , Route 28A spurs off and heads towards Woods Hole in Falmouth. It is at this point that the highway goes from being a surface road to

1820-488: The canal, and Bourne village , Monument Beach , Pocasset , and Cataumet on the east side of the canal. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 52.9 square miles (136.9 km ), of which 40.7 square miles (105.3 km ) is land and 12.2 square miles (31.6 km ), or 23.11%, is water. Bourne's geography was formed around its location on Buzzards Bay and

1872-410: The construction of new bridge. Unlike the existing bridge, owned by the federal government, the state of Massachusetts will own the new bridge. There is a six-foot wide sidewalk for pedestrian and bicycle access on the east side of the bridge. The sidewalk is slightly raised, but there is no fence or barrier between it and car traffic, so cyclists are recommended to walk their bicycle. The bridge road

1924-515: The end of the access road, it turns left onto Thatcher St and continues as Elm St. in East Bridgewater . It then turns left onto North Central Street and crosses MA 18 , becoming Central Street as it continues toward Chestnut St., Bridge St., and Crescent St. It then follows down Washington St. until its next turn onto Pond St. which leads into Halifax . It then turns onto Elm St. and continues to Pine St. where it turns east on MA 106 for

1976-408: The intersection with Cranberry Highway, a road that acts as a connector between Route 6A and Route 6 eastbound prior to the approach of the Sagamore Bridge. Route 28 splits off at the Buzzards Bay Rotary as a ramp headed to the Bourne Bridge and Route 25. Route 25's terminus is just prior to the northern approach of the Bourne Bridge where the highway continues as Route 28 south. At the southern end of

2028-532: The lighting in May 2010. In October 2019, the Army Corps of Engineers recommended replacing the bridge with a wider bridge with four travel lanes, one auxiliary lane in each direction, bike and pedestrian paths, shoulders, and a median. The recommendation said that replacement was more cost-effective than upgrading the existing bridge in order to reduce long summertime backups. In 2019, a federal study concluded that

2080-552: The north side of the Cape Cod Canal , going through the village of Bournedale before becoming the Mid-Cape Highway, a four-lane limited-access highway beginning at the western approach to the Sagamore Bridge . Sandwich Road , the road parallel to Route 6 running along the south side of the canal, was formerly signed as Route 6W. Currently it is an unsigned two-lane state highway that is used as an alternative to Route 6. Sandwich Road becomes Massachusetts Route 6A east of

2132-633: The police station, lies on the mainland side of the Canal. There are four fire stations located throughout the town, and seven post offices for the town's eight ZIP codes . The town's Jonathan Bourne Public Library is located near the Aptucxet Trading Post, just south of the Bourne Bridge, and is a member of the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing (CLAMS) library network. Bourne operates its own school department, with four public schools in

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2184-518: The recent past, including state championships in boys' hockey and girls' volleyball. State finalists include girls' volleyball, golf, and boys' soccer. Conference championships have been won by boys' tennis, soccer, and football. The baseball team recently performed very well in the 2007 MIAA State Tournament, losing to Cape-rival Harwich in the South Finals. Bourne also perennially has a moderately successful ice hockey program. Additionally, Bourne

2236-410: The rest of the state. It was out of this location that the Cape Cod Canal was formed, in order to save time and lives by eliminating the need to sail around the hazardous eastern shores of the Cape. Because of the canal, Bourne is now considered the "first" town on the Cape, as all three bridges (the Bourne , Sagamore and the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge ) are located within the town. All of Bourne

2288-487: The roadway. In the 28-year period after the new fencing was installed (1984–2012), seven persons are known to have died by suicide from the bridges, and between 2013 and 2021, two attempts were prevented. The fencing was cited in 2021 as a possible model for bridges in Rhode Island . In 2004, construction began to replace the rotary that connects Route 6 and Route 3 to the bridge with a trumpet interchange known as

2340-595: The same distance east of Providence, Rhode Island . The border with Plymouth and Wareham in Plymouth County constitutes the only landed border between Barnstable County and any other county (the borders with Dukes and Nantucket counties lie in Nantucket Sound ). Major localities of Bourne include Bournedale and Buzzards Bay on the west side of the Cape Cod Canal, Sagamore , which straddles

2392-660: The three major sections of the bikeway: Greater Boston, Metro South and SE Mass, and Cape Cod going from Boston to Cape Cod. The first 13 miles of the bikeway begin along the banks of the Charles River near Boston University. The route passes by the school over US 20 and follows its way into the Fenway neighborhood. The bikeway follows down the Riverway bike paths, passing the Longwood Medical Area, down to

2444-478: The town of Bourne, please see the articles on Bourne (CDP) , Buzzards Bay , Monument Beach , Pocasset , Sagamore , and Sagamore Beach . Bourne was first settled in 1640 by Ezra Perry as a part of the town of Sandwich . Prior to its separation from Sandwich, the area was referred to as West Sandwich. It was officially incorporated in 1884, the last town to be incorporated in Barnstable County. It

2496-412: The town was 97.72% White , 0.39% Black or African American , 0.53% Native American , 0.71% Asian , 0.01% Pacific Islander , 0.99% from other races , and 0.65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.46% of the population. There were 7,439 households, out of which 28.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 77.6% were married couples living together, 5.4% had

2548-403: The town. There are two elementary schools, Bourne Intermediate School, and Bournedale Elementary School. Bournedale serve grades kindergarten through second, Bourne Intermediate School Serves grades three through five. The town's middle school serves grades sixth through eight, and Bourne High School operates grades nine through twelve. The school's colors are purple and white, and their teams are

2600-991: The wake of the COVID-19 pandemic . St. Francis Xavier, St. Joseph, and St. Pius X took former St. Margaret students. The Massachusetts Maritime Academy , a state maritime college, is also located in Buzzards Bay at the western mouth of the Cape Cod Canal. Bourne is home to the Bourne Braves , an amateur collegiate summer baseball team in the Cape Cod Baseball League . The team plays at Doran Park , and has featured dozens of players who went on to have careers in Major League Baseball , such as Kevin Youkilis , Mitch Moreland , and Pete Alonso . A New England Football League team,

2652-570: Was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.9 males. The median income for a household in the town was $ 92,216, and the median income for a family was $ 118,321. The per capita income for the town was $ 64,012. Bourne is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of three separate districts, the Second Plymouth, Fifth Barnstable, and

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2704-566: Was named for Jonathan Bourne Sr. (1811–1889), whose ancestor Richard Bourne represented Sandwich in the first Massachusetts General Court and was the first preacher to the Mashpee Wampanoag on Cape Cod. The town lies at the northeast corner of Buzzards Bay and is the site of Aptucxet Trading Post , the nation's oldest store. It was founded by the Pilgrims in 1627 at a site halfway between the two rivers which divided Cape Cod from

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