[ 34 ] Leonard Pierce Memorial Bridge

Over Route 6 on Long Pond Road

Leonard A. Pierce was born in South Wellfleet in 1918. A pilot in the Army Air Force in the European Theatre during World War II, he was shot down twice. Each time he saved his crew. Returning to Wellfleet after the War he served as Selectman. He died in 1965 and was laid to rest in the South Wellfleet Cemetery. On February 13, 1998, the Selectmen voted to rename the Long Pond Bridge in his memory.