Schoolhouse Museum

Cape Cod


The kid-friendly Schoolhouse Museum, across from the Salt Pond Visitor Center, is housed in a sweet, one-room schoolhouse dating from 1869. It features a small exhibit on writer and naturalist Henry Beston's year in a cottage on Coast Guard Beach.


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