| 2009 real property tax rate is $5.12 The Town Hall website offers information on schools, town hall, police department, fire department, natural resources and more. Wellfleet Massachusetts was the original land area of Eastham. Billingsgate was an early name given for the town and the harbor by early Pilgrims after a great fish market in England. Wellfeet was finally incorporated as it's own town in 1763. Originally known for it's oysters, Wellfleet became a whaling town until Lorenzo Dow Baker, owner with his brother in-law of the United Fruit Company, bought the Mercantile Wharf and built the Chequesset Inn turned Wellfleet into a sought after resort area. |