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The village of Pocasset is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Bourne in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, located on Buzzards Bay. As of the 2020 census, Pocasset had a population of 2,843.
Its first post office opened in 1828. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,851 in 2010, 2,843 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Pocasset, 1860–1890
Passages that mention Pocasset, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-18901890 · page 333Read the page →
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The Ba-ptist church at Pocasset, standing on an eminence near the station, was formerly in use at Snake pond, having been taken down in 1838 and removed to Pocasset site. It was enlarged and modernized, and in 1889 moved to a more central location near the railroad station. The society was organized April 9. 1838, as the Baptist Church of Christ, of Pocasset. The original members were: Hezekiah Lumbert, Levi Barlow, Obed Barlow, Solomon N. Barlow, Obed Barlow, jr., Eliab King, Caleb Benson, Elizabeth Barlow, Lucinda Barlow, Eliza-
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History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-18901890 · page 648Read the page →
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of Methodist is in 1809. Those of that faith were few, but through the labors of Rev. Erastus Otis a society was gathered in that year, which in 1811 was incorporated as The Methodist Society of Falmouth and Sandwich. The meeting for incorporation was held at Pocasset in June, 1811, it being then the most central and convenient. A meeting house was then erected by the society near the cemetery east of Falmouth village. Prior to the organization of the society those of the faith held their social meetings in Stephen Swift's kitchen; the first
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In passing from Sandwich through Pocasset, on the south side, the borders of the last-named village insensibly connect with the quiet village of North Falmoutu, lying on, or near, Buzzard's Bay, and thus enjoying some conveniences of fishing, and coasting facilities, and stretching along its pleasant residences continuously but not densely, — its Congregational meeting-house, school-houses, wind-mills, post-office, occasional stores, shops for the mechanic arts, and here and there well-cultivated farms of
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mouth was organized. A Methodist Society was incorporated in 1811 ; the first meeting for organization being held at Pocasset in June ; 1 and a meeting-house was erected by the society in central Falmouth. In 1812, this town, which had suffered severely from the deprivations of Mr. Jefferson's embargo,2 was again subjected to the anxieties, from its peculiar locality and exposedness, necessarily attending a state of war.'
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Pocasset, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1950s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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