The village of Pocasset is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Bourne in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, located on Buzzards Bay.
It is bordered to the north by the villages of Bourne and Monument Beach, to the east by Route 28; to the south by the village of Cataumet and Red Brook Pond and Red Brook Harbor; and to the west by the northern end of Buzzards Bay.
[2] The name derives from the Pocasset Wampanoag and evolved over time: "Returning from this excursion in the direction of Wareham, and retracing our steps through the entire length of Monument westward and southward, we come to the ancient 2d Precinct of Sandwich, called by the early Indians Pouglikeeste — at a later period Pokesit and now called Pocasset."
In May 2016, three homes in a Pocasset neighborhood received bottled water, because of elevated perfluorinated organic compounds in drinking water, linked to firefighting foam used after military fuel truck crashes at Otis Rotary, which connects to nearby Otis Air National Guard Base.
[6] Wing's Neck Light is a Cape Cod-style lighthouse built in 1849, with a white, wooden hexagonal tower and lantern room on top of a stone house where the keeper lived.