[ 39 ] Pond Hill School

Look for Mile Marker #100 on Route 6 just
south of Pleasant Point/Paine Hollow Road

Members of the Ladies Social Union in this 1890s photograph were: “Mrs. Eva W. Smith, Mrs. Arthur Newcomb, Mrs. Otis Paine, Mrs. Winslow Paine, Mrs. Frank Crowell, Mrs. Solomon Atwood, and standing on the right, Miss Nettie Paine.”

Pond Hill School was built in 1857 as one of Wellfleet’s eleven schoolhouses.  In 1889, the by then abandoned building was purchased by women of The Ladies Social Union for a meeting hall. In 1912, with cooperation of Trustees of the Wellfleet Public Library, they opened a library on the second floor. Since 1944, when the Ladies Social Union merged with a newly organized South Wellfleet Neighborhood Association, this interesting and well preserved building, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been a popular Community Center. A Memorial List honors South Wellfleet World War II veterans.