Falmouth:
Changing with the Times
Falmouth Historical Society, Falmouth MA
There’s no better way to learn about a place and the people who lived there than by seeing what they left behind. And, like most things, what remains changes with the times. However, you’ll find that the sea trade, tourism, farming, industry, and military and civic service are the common threads in the fabric of this exhibit.
A 19th century telescope and octant, a model of the Commodore Morris, a whaleship that was built in Woods Hole in 1841, and a cannonball embedded in a tree that we believe the British aboard the HMS Nimrod fired on Falmouth during the War of 1812 tell fascinating stories of the town’s past. A 1928 gavel from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, a 1939 jukebox which can still play records on occasion, and a lifeboat fixture from the luxury Liner Andrea Doria, which sank off Nantucket in 1956, are among the twentieth century artifacts.