[ 4 ] Mile Markers

On this Town Center Marker the arrows had to be reversed when post was moved from across the street to Town Hall lawn; Plymouth became 65 miles West, and Provincetown 12 miles North. There is another Mile Marker on Route 6 at the Eastham/Wellfleet town line, and a third at Wellfleet/Truro line.

[ 5 ] WCTU Water Fountain

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union donated this drinking water fountain to the Town in 1948. Mary Freeman, representing the Wellfleet Chamber of Commerce, is shown accepting the gift. Following the 1960 fire, the fountain was relocated to the present site to the right of the driveway and sadly flows no longer.

To the right of the Town Hall driveway

[ 6 ] Time Capsules

Buried in the ground close
to Town Hall front doors

Wellfleet Selectmen twice authorized placing Time Capsules containing local memorabilia on the Town Hall lawn. The first was buried in 1963 during Wellfleet’s 200^th Incorporation Anniversary Celebration, and was opened in 2013 during the 250^th Anniversary celebration; the second, placed in 1976 during America's bicentennial celebration, will be opened in 2076 AD.

[ 7 ] Wellfleet Cannon

Probably mounted on a privateer from Wellfleet during the War of 1812, this “Nine Pounder” was cast at Henry Foxhall’s foundry in Georgetown, Maryland, in the late 1700s. Historian Edwin N. Rich of Wellfleet designed the reproduction of the original wooden mount.

[ 8 ] World War II Honor Roll

Inside Town Hall on Wall in Lobby

“Dedicated to the Citizens of Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Who Served their Country in World War ll – Lest we forget – This

tablet is the Expression of the Love

and Admiration of Mary K. Lawrence.”

ARMY

Zenas J. Adams, Jr.	Edward B. Lane, Jr.
Ethelyn H. Atwood	Alexander J. Lussier, Jr.
Ester F. Bell	Arthur E. Lussier
Fred S. Bell	Fred Moran
Richmond R. Bell	Alvah L. Murphy
Edwin C. Berrio	George W. Murphy
James A. Berrio, Jr.	Malcom I. Murphy
Norman F. Berrio	Clarence M. Murphy
Laurence E. Cardinal	Cecil E. Newcomb, Jr.
Albert R. Carey	Robert E. Newcomb
Franklin P. Chase	Raymond E. Nickerson
David Chavchavadze	Lillian V. Pentinen
James G. Curran, Jr.	Thomas R. Pickering
William H. Dalby	Leonard A. Price
Earl Daley	Allan R. Putnam
Alice F. Daniels	Robert W. Putnam
Edmund A. Davis	Wilbur R. Rockwell
Letitia O. DeGroot	Donald F. Rose
Julian A. Dickey	Lawrence J. Rose
Paul C. Dyer	Charles R. Silva, Jr.
Alfred A. Faust	Clayton E. Smith
Benjamin E. Freeman	Emerson R. Snow
Norman W. Gill	Howard K. Snow
John T. Hall	Kenneth A. Snow
Charles T. Hatch	Martti I. Suomi
Lois L. Higgins	Walter A. Taylor
Edwin I. Hill	William W. Taylor
Walter J. Hill	Eino A. Thompson
Lucille G. Horton	Wilfred J. Trahan
Althena M. Howland	John Wiles
Elwood M. Howland	Rudolph L. Woidell
Fred A. Howland	Norman C. Young
Hernaldo R. Kelley

NAVY

Everett G. Adams	Paul J. Lussier
Franklin J. Adams	Donald P. Moran
Floyd F. Atwood	Arthur J. Murphy
Robert H. Atwood	James Murray
Oliver L. Austin, Jr.	Paul G. Murray
Arthur F. Bacon	Edward A. Nickerson, Jr.
Clarence J. Berrio	Chester W. Nimitz, Jr.
George E. Berrio	Kenneth E. Paine
Richard L. Berrio	Miriam M. Pentinen
Thomas A. Cosgrove	Wallace I. Pierce
Clifford H. Dalby	Joseph J. Redman
Willis A. Dill	Earl G. Rich
William K. Dyer	Elisa Robbins
Berkley A. Eastman	Edward R. Rose
Frederick G. Eastman	Wilbur H. Ryder, Jr.
Ronald G. Eastman	Charles R. Shuster, Jr.
Charles M. Echeverria, Jr.	Clarence S. Smith
Durand Echeverria	Eugene F. Sullivan
Charles E. Frazier, Jr.	Elwood S. Taylor
Henry P. Gill	John P. Tiernan
Clifford M. Hatch	Martha H. Underhill
Alfred L. Hill	Ansel A. Valli, Jr.
Clifton P. Hopkins, Jr.	Virginia M. Valli
James R. Howland	John N. Wade
Charles W. Huntley	Walter S. Wade
Franklin A. Lane	Arlie L. Wiles
Theodore J. Laubacker	Wilton L. Wiles, Jr.
Edward E. Lombard	Frank A. Wiley

COAST GUARD

Winfred M. Baumgarten	Robert W. Lombard
Russell F. Berrio	Jordan Orr
Leon E. Dayon	Howard R. Pickering
Daniel Dorey	George G. Pierce
Luther J. Ellis	Wilfred E. Rogers, Jr.
Warren L. L. Ellis	William F. Silva
Anthony L. Ferreira, Jr.	William A. Snow
Sherwood M. Fisher	Ansel A. Valli
William E. Joseph	Ben Wolf

MARINES

Leander E. Dorey	Kenneth L. Rose

MERCHANT MARINES

Cyril W. Downs, Jr.	Cleveland L. Farnham

RED CROSS

Paul L. Chavchavadze

[ 9 ] Captain L. D. Baker Plaque

In Town Hall Lobby

Lorenzo Dow Baker was born in Wellfleet in 1840 and attended the Bound Brook Island School until at age ten, he went to sea as a fisherman. As a young man, Captain Baker revolutionized the fruit industry by demonstrating that bananas could be shipped long distances. In his Boston Fruit Company, later absorbed by the United Fruit Company, he combined a fleet of Wellfleet based ships, with a network of Caribbean banana plantations in a successful multinational enterprise.  Later, retired from active shipping, he played an influential role in developing Wellfleet as a summer resort.

This plaque, presented to the town by The United Fruit Company, honors this daring, entrepreneurial, compassionate seaman whose many imaginative enterprises uniquely enriched his hometown.

Captain Baker is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery with his wife, Martha Matilda (Hopkins) and their daughter, Martha Alberta.

[ 10 ] John R. McKay Square

At Junction of Main
and Bank Streets

John R. McKay was born in Wellfleet on February 21, 1892.  He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War I and died of pneumonia at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in October, 1918.  In 1924 the Town voted unanimously to name the square at the junction of Bank and Main Streets in his honor and appropriated $100 to erect a suitable marker. When the Sparrow residence was torn down to make way for construction of a commercial building, now Wellfleet Marketplace and Cappello’s Country Store, the marker was moved to its present site.