EASTHAM STATS
1651 INCORPORATED
5,772 TOTAL POPULATION
2,860 TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS
$668,400 MEDIAN HOME VALUE
Three Sisters Lighthouses: In 1836, Eastham residents urged the Boston Marine Society to recommend to the U.S. Congress to construct three 15-foot-high masonry light towers on their coastline. From the sea, the lights seemed to resemble women in white dresses and black hats, and thus the nickname “The Three Sisters” was born. Coastal erosion caused the National Lighthouse Board to commission taller wooden towers thirty feet inland from the original masonry ones (which eventually collapsed into the Atlantic). The new towers underwent location moves, changes in technology and ownership, and decommission until they were purchased by the National Park Service and placed in their original orientation on a plot of land on Cable Road, where you can visit them today.
89% OWNER OCCUPIED UNITS
96% SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES
First Encounter Beach offers calm, warm water, expansive tidal flats, and a panoramic view of Cape Cod Bay. The site also presents a window into the earliest months of the Pilgrims’ arrival on Cape Cod. With the Mayflower anchored off Provincetown, Captain Myles Standish and a small exploration and hunting party took an open boat, known as a shallop, along the coast of the bay. As they camped here, they were surprised by a group of Nausets, a tribe of the Wampanoag Nation, who were seeking to protect their homeland. Arrows flew and musket shots were fired, but no harm resulted from this tense first encounter.
4% MULTI-FAMILY HOMES
Courtesy of U.S. Census, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for 2023.
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