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The day after the Falmouth vote for conservation, Penn Central announced the land was sold to a private resident of Woods Hole. Town officials and citizens were dumbstruck, no one had known of that possibility. (The selectmen had asked the railroad to put off their deadline until after town meeting; the railroad refused.) This was the only offer for the entire strip, for $76,000. Meanwhile, the order of taking was filed at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds, although Chairman Antone Mogardo declared afterward that the taking could be suspended if an agreement could be reached. A series of negotiations occurred between the private resident, and the Selectmen, and later by Town Meeting. The resident would not agree to an easement for the section next to his abutting house, and the Town would not agree to a sale without 100% of the strip, or to revoke the taking. The resident filed a lawsuit in Barnstable Superior Court in 1970, seeking to overturn the taking.
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