Wellfleet | |||||||||||
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Location | Railroad Avenue at Commercial Street Wellfleet, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°56′4.53″N70°1′46.53″W / 41.9345917°N 70.0295917°W | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Cape Cod Railroad | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1870 | ||||||||||
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Wellfleet station was a train station located just to the east of the intersection of Commercial Street and Railroad Avenue in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It was constructed in 1870 when the Cape Cod Railroad reached Wellfleet. [1]
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