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While the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts was not the first natural area of the country to fall under the stewardship and care of the National Park Service, the region is noted as being the home to some other tremendous “firsts”.In 1620 the first European settlers in the area arrived in Cape Cod – in what today is the Provincetown area. Though they did not establish their permanent settlement in the region, they did stay around long enough to have what is referred to as the “First Encounter” with local Native Americans. This was not a pleasant exchange as the Pilgrims had helped themselves to some corn and roamed freely through the region seeking fresh water and other supplies. Though there was no battle it was a notable “first” for the area.Another first in what would become the Cape Cod National Seashore took place a few hundred years later, when Guglielmo Marconi constructed one of the two first wireless stations on the continent at South Wellfleet. In January of 1903 the first two-way communication between America and Europe occurred at this sight. Though the original station was torn down in 1920, new stations were later erected in North Eastham and Orleans.