Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod
Overview
Orleans, Massachusetts
Orleans is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 5,890 at the 2010 census....
. It is located at Route 28 and harbors 7825 acres (31.7 km²) of saltwater when the tide is in.
The first peoples to discover the bay were the Native American tribes the Monomoyiks and the Nauset
Nauset
The Nauset tribe, sometimes referred to as the Cape Cod Indians lived in what is present-day Cape Cod, Massachusetts, living east of Bass River and lands occupied by their closely related neighbours, the Wampanoag...
s. They referred to it as Monomoyik which translates to "Great Bay". It is also reported that in this area Squanto
Squanto
Tisquantum was a Patuxet. He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. The Patuxet tribe was a tributary of the Wampanoag Confederacy.-Biography:Squanto's exact date of birth is unknown but many historians...
, the guide of the pilgrims, is buried.
Quotations
You may well reap the benefit, Edmund, but are you truly prepared to be despised within the department?
Wendell, I'd like full and docile co-operation on every topic...
This is the city of angels — and you haven't got any wings.