Heading North on Old County Road take the first possible left-hand turn beyond Wellfleet Transfer Station. Continue up this dirt road for a tenth of a mile to sign on Left. Park and walk down hill to this National Historic Site.
This center chimney house was built about 1730 by Thomas and Solomon Higgins when Bound Brook Island was a busy fishing and farming community. Thomas, and later Jerusha Atwood, lived on the property from 1806 thru 1891 when it passed to Mary Ackerman who lost it to the Town of Wellfleet for unpaid taxes. Edward and Anthony Atwood, and Annie Atwood Cole reclaimed it in 1897. George Higgins owned it from 1919 until 1961 when property along Bound Brook was added as a seasonal National Seashore Park site.
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