Centerville River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
in
Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Barnstable County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 228,996. Its shire town is Barnstable. The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands (some adjacent islands are in Duke ...
. It drains out of
Wequaquet Lake northwest of
Hyannis, flows through
Craigville, and empties into the
Centerville Harbor Centreville, Centerville, Centre-ville or Centre-Ville and variants may refer to:
Places Canada
* Centreville, British Columbia, a ghost town
* Centreville, New Brunswick, a village in Carleton County
* Centreville, Newfoundland and Labrador
* ...
which drains into the
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...
east of
Osterville. According to the Bicentennial history book commissioned by the Town of Barnstable ("Seven Villages of Barnstable"), the drainage path was natural below Pine Street, but was excavated by unemployed Civil War veterans in 1867. This work was paid for by the Town. Coincidentally, a "Nine Mile Pond Fishing Company" was chartered for extracting herring from Lake Wequaquet at the same time.
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Rivers of Massachusetts
Rivers of Barnstable County, Massachusetts