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Family style works for Bancroft Brothers Barbershop in Centerville

Barnstable Patriot · Denise Coffey · last updated

A barber’s pole twists outside the Bancroft Brothers Barbershop in Centerville. Just inside the door to the 800-square-foot shop sits James Bancroft, director, greeter and father to the five brothers the shop is named after.

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Centerville has the most complete residential development of Barnstable’s villages, with some 9,800 year-round residents and 5,600 homes.

The one and a half-mile stretch of Main Street and Old Stage Road features 1800’s sea captains’ homes which are listed in the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Also on the national register is the 1871 Craigville Tabernacle, located in Craigville Village along with the Craigville Conference Center.

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