Constructed in 1890, the structure known as Fieldstone Hall was considered one of the most expensive houses built in the country at that time.

Indigenous settlement in Brewster took place on the north shore of the present-day town, with a Sauguatuckett farming area centered around the contemporary Stony Brook.

[8] Individual accounts subdivide the indigenous tribes of pre-contact Cape Cod, but any historians and researches today use the unifying term Nauset.

[9] Somewhere around 1,200 indigenous people populated Outer Cape Cod prior to 1617 pandemics, with this number reduced to 500 by 1621.

[8][10] The first permanent colonial settlement in Brewster centered around the Stony Brook area, part of the "Old Comers" or "Purchasers" grant of 1641.

The land that now makes up Brewster was purchased in 1653 from Wano and his son Sachemas, leaders of the local Sauguatuckett.

[8] By this period, the Sauguatuckett held significant quantities of corn, beans, and squash which were at times for sale to English settlers.

The Stony Brook gristmill remains as a testament to the early manufacturing activity at this site.

[8] Settlers and indigenous people alike utilized the abundant cornfields, as well as the natural resources of Cape Cod Bay.

Substantial amounts of herring, or alewife, were, and continue to be, found in the Stony Brook area.

[8] Brewster captains invested an estimated $250,000 on merchant vessels, and a large saltworks was present on the shoreline of Cape Cod Bay during this period.

At this time, Brewster also had the third highest number of cranberry bogs on the Cape, following Harwich and Dennis.

[8] Architecturally, Brewster blossomed during this period, with wealthy sea captains and commercial titans constructing Italianate, Greek Revival, and Second Empire homes.

[13] Brewster is bordered on the north by Cape Cod Bay, on the west by Dennis, on the south by Harwich, and on the east by Orleans.

[30] On the national level, Brewster is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, and is currently represented by William Keating.

Brewster is a member of the Nauset Regional School District, along with the towns of Eastham, Orleans and Wellfleet.

The team plays at Stony Brook Field, and has featured dozens of players who went on to careers in Major League Baseball, such as Aaron Judge, Billy Wagner, and Chase Utley.

Punkhorn Parklands also has thousands of acres of protected woodland with many hiking trails, the one to Eagle Point being particularly popular.

The mother of the man who provided the photograph was Helen's playmate at the Elijah Cobb House.

Samuel M. Nickerson, president of the First National Bank of Chicago, was one of the most influential business leaders of the time.

[38] Nickerson's shares in First National Bank were sold for $2.1M, according to The New York Times dated September 29, 1899.

The Nickerson summer house, Fieldstone Hall in Brewster, is now a condominium resort called Ocean Edge.

[39] In a 2011 episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Ashley Judd traced her direct lineage back to William Brewster, the town's namesake.