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Wellfleet Marconi Beach, Wellfleet, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts, United States
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Wellfleet, town (township), Barnstable county, Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the northeastern arm of Cape Cod, 12 miles (19 km) south-southeast of Provincetown. First settled about 1724, it was incorporated in 1763 and gained prominence in the 19th century as a fishing port, having from 1830 to 1870 a virtual monopoly of New England oystering. The name of the town may derive from “whale fleet” or from the Wallfleet oyster bed in Blackwater Bay, England....

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