It is one of four straits allowing maritime passage between Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound the others are Canapitsit Channel, Quick's Hole and Robinson's Hole. The strait is known for its extremely strong current, approaching four knots. The term "Woods Hole" refers to a strait named Woods Hole, which separates Cape Cod from the Elizabeth Islands (specifically, Uncatena Island and Nonamesset Island) and which boats, yachts, and small ferries can use to travel between Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay. In 1976, The Woods Hole Foundation was created. Around 1919, it was expanded to 18 holes. In 1899, the Woods Hole Golf course was started. Before 1898, the Woods Hole Yacht Club was formed. Irving Langmuir, the famous Scientist, also lived in Woods Hole and died there on August 16, 1957. Other notable businessmen established homes on Gansett Point, Nobska Point, and at Quissett Harbor, further from the village center. Park, an executive of Singer Sewing Machine. Morgan and Company Joseph Lee, a partner in Lee, Higginson & Co. Notable property owners on Penzance Point at the beginning of the twentieth century included Seward Prosser of New York's Bankers Trust Company Francis Bartow, a partner in J. After the firm went bankrupt in 1889, Long Neck–the peninsula on which their factory was located–was renamed Penzance Point and was developed with shingle-style summer homes for bankers and lawyers from New York and Boston.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Woods Hole was the home of the Pacific Guano Company, which produced fertilizer from guano imported from islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, and the coast of South Carolina. The community became a center for whaling, shipping, and fishing, prior to its dominance today by tourism and marine research. Great Harbor, contained by Penzance Point). Historically, Woods Hole included one of the few good harbors (along with Hyannis) on the southern side of Cape Cod (i.e. History Pacific Guano Works, Woods Hole, ca.1860s engraving by S.S. It is also the site of United States Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England (formerly USCG Group Woods Hole), the Nobska Light lighthouse, and the terminus of the Steamship Authority ferry route between Cape Cod and the island of Martha's Vineyard.
It is the site of several marine science institutions, including Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woodwell Climate Research Center, NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (which started the Woods Hole scientific community in 1871), the Woods Hole Science Aquarium, a USGS coastal and marine geology center, and the home campus of the Sea Education Association. The population was 781 at the 2010 census. It lies at the extreme southwest corner of Cape Cod, near Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands. Woods Hole is a census-designated place in the town of Falmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
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