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The Town of Barnstable ( BARN-stə-bəl) is a town in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the county chair of Barnstable County. Barnstable is the largest community, both in land Place and population, on Cape Cod, and is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have been contracted city forms of doling out by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts but wish to retain “the town of” in their approved names. At the 2020 census it had a population of 48,916. The town contains several villages (one of which is as a consequence named Barnstable) within its boundaries. Its largest village, Hyannis, is the central matter district of the county and home to Barnstable Municipal Airport, the airline hub of Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Additionally, Barnstable is a 2007 winner of the All-America City Award.

Barnstable takes its proclaim from the English town of Barnstaple, in the county of Devon. The first European to study the area was Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602. It was arranged in 1638, as one of the first towns in the Plymouth Colony, one year astern Sandwich new south in Massachusetts on Cape Cod. It was incorporated on September 4, 1639, the thesame day as the towns of Sandwich, and Yarmouth. On the first Tuesday of December, the same year, its deputies took their seats in the general court. The beforehand settlers were farmers, led by the Reverend Joseph Hull, the founder of Barnstable. A memorial tablet was dedicated there in 1939 (the 300th anniversary of the town’s founding) marking the site of his home, and the rock from which he preached nevertheless stands along the highway there.

Soon after the town’s founding, agriculture, fishing and salt works became its major industries. By the subside of the 19th century, there were some 804 ships harbored in the town. But the role of sailing ships declined afterward the rise of ocean-going steamships and the railroad, which had arrived in 1854.