
Cape Cod Canal
The Cape Cod Canal (which celebrated its centennial in 2014), and weighs in at 7.5 miles long, separates the mainland from Cape Cod. The canal, between 480 and 700 feet wide at various points, is the world’s widest ocean-level canal. In 1623 Captain Myles Standish, eager to facilitate trade between New Amsterdam (New York City) and Plymouth Colony, was the...