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| | Onset Village - UrbanPlanet.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | ONSET -- One of the best-preserved Victorian beach resorts in the country, Onset long has been known as "The Gateway to Cape Cod." Word is getting around, however, that the village, which has a unique history and one of the state's finest ocean beaches, is also a great destination in its own right. |
 | | The core of the village is a 150-acre tract acquired in 1877 by the Onset Bay Grove Association, a group of Boston businessmen who wanted to create a spiritualist summer resort. |
 | | A beloved Onset summer custom, dating from its 19th-century heyday, is Illumination Night, when more than 1,200 flares are placed at intervals on the beach all around the harbor and are lit simultaneously. |
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