Editing Yarmouth, Massachusetts (section)

===Contemporary Yarmouth===

Developers began to refashion Yarmouth into a summer resort near the end of the nineteenth century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hsoy.org/history.htm| title= Development of Yarmouth as a Summer Destination| year=2001| publisher=The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth, PO Box 11, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675| access-date=February 24, 2013| quote=As the 1800s came to a close, more and more people from the cities began to look toward the shore to offer a place of rest and respite from their urban dwellings. West Yarmouth, with its hundreds of acres of rural land and large stretches of sandy beaches, was a prime target for developers who moved in to create summer communities with the names Englewood, Hyannis Park, and Colonial Acres.}}</ref> Hotels and summer cottage communities proliferated in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly along what is now Route 28.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hsoy.org/history.htm| title= Development of Yarmouth as a Summer Destination| year=2001| publisher=The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth, PO Box 11, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675| access-date=February 24, 2013| quote=Large hotels were built to accommodate the summer trade and West Yarmouth cottages were marketed to those who lived in urban environments. "Cottage" communities also sprang up, especially along Route 28. Offering small, cabin-like dwellings, the cottages provided vacation accommodations for those who were not able to afford a summer at one of the large, grand hotels.}}</ref> With the emergence of the [[1950s American automobile culture|car culture]] in the years just after [[World War II]], these were joined first by many [[motel]]s (mostly along Route 28 in West Yarmouth) and later by the denser, suburban pattern of residential housing construction that characterizes Yarmouth today.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hsoy.org/history.htm| title= Development of Yarmouth as a Summer Destination| year=2001| publisher=The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth, PO Box 11, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675| access-date=February 24, 2013| quote=As America's population became more mobile, especially after World War II, cottage communities gave way to motels, and businesses sprang up to cater to the growing tourist trade. Undeveloped acreage between Route 28 and Route 6A gave way to new residential housing, and the modern town that we know today began to emerge.}}</ref>

The headquarters of the [[International Fund for Animal Welfare]] (IFAW), a global animal welfare and conservation charity founded in 1969, is located in Yarmouth Port. In 1970, the national [[Christmas Tree Shops]] retail chain was founded at a location on Route 6A in Yarmouth Port.<ref>''Clapping Man, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Street Atlas.'' South Easton, MA: Arrow Maps Inc., 2004, p. 96.</ref>

On August 26, 2003, [[Colgan Air Flight 9446]] crashed into the water just off of Yarmouth, killing both crew members on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Beechcraft 1900D N240CJ Hyannis, MA|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20030826-0|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>