An Overview of the Colony History
The Sagamore Beach will celebrate it's 100th Anniversary
this year! The club is looking to future generations to keep
the flame alive for the next 100 years. An excellent piece
written by Beverly Niit summarizes this sentiment. Looking
back to the founding of the club and celebrating the Colony's
100th anniversary, we rejoice
in the sense of community and support fostered by the Sagamore
Beach Colony Club.
For a more complete written and pictoral history of the Sagamore
Beach Colony and the area, please see the book authored by
Marion R. Vuilleumier, © 2003, Arcadia Publishing. The
book is available through the Colony Club, or through the
publisher.
"Framed by a two-mile pristine beach with Victorian
homes on an overlooking bluff, the Sagamore Beach area has
a long history, beginning with the Native American trail that
was the forerunner of today’s Route 6A. Settlement began
when the internationally known Christian Endeavor Society
chose the area for a summer colony in 1905.  Soon,
it was a combined vacation, recreation, and religious community,
as well as a haven for families, that hosted numerous activities,
including speakers of national fame, conferences, and a traditional
swim at eleven every morning. Among stories of colony life
in Sagamore Beach are several early attempts to create the
Cape Cod Canal. Sagamore Beach became a prime site for viewing
the construction of jetties for the canal’s east end,
the building of Sagamore Bridge, and the first ships transiting
the canal. A resident of Cape Cod since 1960, historian Marion
R. Vuilleumier is the author of twenty books. With the assistance
of local archivists and Barbara D. Sullivan of the Sagamore
Beach Colony Club Committee, she has compiled fascinating
photographs that bring alive one of New England’s hidden
villages."
We have posted the text from the
Introduction to this book with permission of the publisher.
We hope this excerpt will pique your interest in the areas
history, and that of the Sagamore Beach Colony Club. The book
touches on the areas history with special emphasis on the
homes and families that have grown up on Sagamore Beach. The
book provides an extensive collections of photographs donated
by area families to maintain a special link with the past
and a guidepost for the future.
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