How We Preserve—and Fund—Open Space

Town Parcels Purchased with Land Bank Funds

(Voters adopted Cape Cod Land Bank Bill in 1998. Falmouth approved first purchases with Land Bank funds in spring of 1999. Final purchase was the Boy Scout parcel in the spring of 2005. Town meeting approved the purchase of a total of 900 acres in 31 land transactions, committing over $38,000,000 in future Land Bank revenues.)

  • Aucoin, Gifford Street, 1.89 acres. $48,000. Town meeting approval fall 2000.
  • Cardoza, West Falmouth Highway, 45.26 acres. $1.3 million. TM approval spring 1999.
  • Cockerham/Tavares, Sandwich Road. 12.09 acres. $187,000. TM approval spring 1999.
  • Correllus Trust (Teixeira), Teaticket Highway, 4.53 acres. $600,000. TM approval spring 1999.
  • Tavares, Davisville Road, on Green Pond, 4.20 acres. $150,000. TM approval fall 1999.
  • Fonseca/Servis, Carriage Shop Road, Waquoit. 18.18 acres. $300,000. TM approval fall 1999.
  • Donald Wicks, Firetower Road, Central Moraine. 8.55 acres. $115,541. TM approval spring 2002.
  • Stephen Wicks, Firetower Road, Central Moraine. 8.10 acres. $109,459. TM approval spring 2002.
  • McGowan, North Falmouth Highway. 2.78 acres. $20,000. TM approval spring 2002.
  • Roskovics, Trickett Street, North Falmouth. 20.02 acres. $995,000. TM approval spring 2002.
  • Antone DeSouza, Waquoit Highway. 10.41 acres. $140,000. TM approval fall 2002.
  • Hanson-Powell, Central Avenue, East Falmouth (trail to Bournes Pond). 7.30 acres. $190,000. TM approval fall 2002.
  • Breivogel, Blacksmith Shop Road, Central Moraine. 67.30 acres. $625,000 ($375,000 in Land Bank funds; $250,000 in Mass Self-Help funds). TM approval fall 2002.
  • Rodriques (bogs), Old Waquoit Road. 23.65 acres. $435,000. TM approval fall 2000.
  • Wald and Fender, Thomas Landers/Turner Road, Hatchville. 46.42 acres. $1,400,000 ($1,150,000 in Land Bank funds; $250,000 in Mass. Self-Help funds.) TM approval fall 2000.
  • Wald and Fender. 6 acres within large parcel for active recreation. TM approval fall 2000; acquired in 2001.
  • Wyldewood Parcels, Northern Moraine Trail. 145.02 acres. $5,600,000. TM approval spring 2001.
  • McKinney, Palmer Avenue. 1.03 acres. $350,000 (Land Bank funded $250,000; town paid $100,000). TM approval spring 2000. (designated for municipal use. FYI: McKinney sold the parcel for $210,000 earlier that year to Charles Doe, who sold it to the town.)
  • E Souza, Carriage Shop Road. 9.10 acres. $260,000 ($250,000 in Land Bank funds; $8,000 from Falmouth Rod & Gun Club; $2,000 from Falmouth Skeet Club). TM approval 2001.
  • Blackwatch, Mares and Spectacle ponds. 23.52 acres. $750,000. TM approval fall 2002.
  • Antone – Wisnewski, Sandwich Road. 6.68 acres. $265,000. TM approval spring 2002.
  • Clauson (Braeburn Farms). 28.11 acres. $985,000. TM approval spring 2002.
  • Clauson (Little Jenkins Pond). 3.86 acres. TM approval spring 2002, as part of other Clauson parcel.
  • Latimer, Routes 28 and 151. 2.20 acres. $10,000. TM approval fall 2002.
  • Dupee 1, off Hatchville Road, abuts Souza parcel. 61.69 acres. ($4,100,000 in Land Bank funds; $25,000 in 300 Committee funds). TM approval fall 2002.
  • Costa, off Stowers Street and Nickerson, Maravista. 1.17 acres. $15,900. TM approval spring 2003.
  • Augusta Realty, East Falmouth Highway. 23.71 acres. $3 million ($1,500,000 in Land Bank funds; $1,500,00 in Air Force nitrogen mitigation funds). TM approval spring 2003. (for active recreation, municipal use).
  • Dorothea Allen, Carriage Shop Road. 71.33 acres. $4,500,000 in Land Bank funds (T3C contributed $25,000 as a “good faith” deposit with sellers). TM approval spring 2004.
  • Falmouth Country Club, Carriage Shop Road. 162.42 acres. $3 million in Land Bank funds; $3 from T3C. (Total package for golf club and nearby open space was $15.8 million. Air Force mitigation funds, golf course income helped pay for this.) TM approval spring 2004.
  • Losordo (Belmar neighborhood), Shoreview Avenue to Cooper Street. 2.89 acres. $125,000 ($62,500 in Land Bank funds; $62,500 from 300 Committee, which included $48,700 from Belmar neighborhood). TM approval spring 2004.
  • Boy Scouts, Deep Pond and Blacksmith Shop Road, Hatchville, 17.78 acres. $1,200,000 acres. TM approval spring 2005.