We have just passed the Cape Code Canal for the seventh time, and at sunset when we come out we decide to stop in the Bay of Onset that we still do not know for 4 years ...

Onset was developed in the 1880s as a summer camp meeting for Spiritualists. Many of the existing cottages in Onset were built as second homes for individuals from Boston, Taunton, Brockton and other northeastern cities who gathered to hear mediums communicate with the dead. While it was run by the Spiritualists, the village was known as Onset Bay Grove.