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Bourne ( BORN) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 20,452 at the 2020 census.

For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Bourne, please see the articles on Bourne (CDP), Buzzards Bay, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Sagamore, and Sagamore Beach.

Bourne was first decided in 1640 by Ezra Perry as a share of the town of Sandwich. Prior to its unfriendliness from Sandwich, the Place was referred to as West Sandwich. It was officially incorporated in 1884, the last town to be incorporated in Barnstable County. It was named for Jonathan Bourne Sr. (1811–1889), whose ancestor Richard Bourne represented Sandwich in the first Massachusetts General Court and was the first preacher to the Mashpee Wampanoag on Cape Cod. The town lies at the northeast corner of Buzzards Bay and is the site of Aptucxet Trading Post, the nation’s oldest store. It was founded by the Pilgrims in 1627 at a site halfway with the two rivers which estranged Cape Cod from the dismount of the state. It was out of this location that the Cape Cod Canal was formed, in order to keep time and lives by eliminating the craving to sail roughly the hazardous eastern shores of the Cape. Because of the canal, Bourne is now considered the “first” town on the Cape, as anything three bridges (the Bourne, Sagamore and the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge) are located within the town. Most of Bourne is on Cape Cod, Buzzards Bay and Sagamore Beach being the villages that are upon the mainland side in the same way as Buttermilk bay forming the western edge of the peninsula (cape) and the Bourndale Road forming the northern boundary to the cape.