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Wellfleet Real Estate

• Population: 3500
  
• Settled: 1724
  
• Square Miles: 35.4
  
• 2011 Tax Rate:  $6.09
  
• Best known for:  Wellfleet Oysters
  

Located on the outer end of Cape Cod, the Town of Wellfleet is 48 miles from the Cape Cod canals Sagamore bridge. The town offers an abundance of quaint rural seaside character and charm and spectacular natural resources. During the summer, the population swells from 3,500 year-round residents to an estimated 17,000 persons enjoying the Town's miles of ocean and bay-side beaches; numerous beautiful, clear, spring-fed, ponds; many fine art galleries, shops and restaurants; and the magnificent recently renovated and greatly improved Wellfleet Harbor offering a constantly changing panorama of sail boats, motor yachts, sport fishing boats and trawlers.

An extremely diverse community with an intriguing history of an extraordinary nautical atmosphere. The town was once reknowned for its whaling fleet, fishing industry and it's oyster beds.  The town was also the site chosen by Guglielmo Marconi to build his wireless station where the first trans Atlantic message was transmitted between President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII of England. A portion of this site still remains but most of it has eroded into the sea.  The friendly charm of the Central Village provides the pedestrian with a vast array of browsing, dining, picture-taking and sightseeing opportunities within a relatively short walk. The Central Village is also the focus of Wellfleet's year-round civic life and commercial activity.

The town is home of the Cape Cod National Seashore Headquarters created in 1961 by  President John F Kennedy.  Wellfleet is also home to the 1,000 acre Massachusetts Audubon Society Wildlife Sanctuary. Some of Cape Cod's finest ocean surf casting, fresh water pond and Cape Cod Bay boat fishing possibilities are found in Wellfleet, and the town is well known for its plentiful supply of shellfish, including the famous "Wellfleet Oysters".

The fresh water ponds are a particular delight in Wellfleet. Their tranquil surfaces shimmer in early sunlight, and their small sandy beaches echo with happiness in late afternoon as the shadows from the surrounding pines darken the water. The combination of a day on a stimulating and expansive back shore beach, and a leisurely swim in the warm water of one of the kettle ponds is a special luxury that Wellfleet offers.  After a day of enjoying outdoor activities take in a live show at the W.H.A.T.  the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre group or enjoy the latest movies from Hollywood at the drive-in theatre.  The drive-in also serves double duty as a flea market during the day. 

 In 1984 the worlds only documented pirate ship the "Whydah" which sank in 1717 was discovered off Wellfleet. 
The "Whydah" was loaded with treasure so you never know what might wash up on the beach in Wellfleet.