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Barnstable

American  
[bahrn-stuh-buhl] / ˈbɑrn stə bəl /

noun

  1. a city in SE Massachusetts.


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In Massachusetts, nearly 300,000 were without power, according to poweroutage.us, including 85% of customers in Barnstable County, which includes all of Cape Cod.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

The town of Barnstable, which opposed Cape Wind, sought to be the landing site for the cables from Vineyard Wind.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

After polls closed across most of Massachusetts Tuesday night, one town, Barnstable, kept polls open until midnight after a broken vault door kept ballots locked inside for most of the day.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022

The turtle originally came from a nest in West Barnstable that researchers determined was in a hazardous location and needed to be moved.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

The bottom of the bay means the region of Barnstable and west, and the people of "Chawum" were the Indians of that region.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard

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