Hyannis Harbor has long been a working waterfront and one of Cape Cod’s major commercial fishing ports, where local fleets unload their catch and recreational boating shares the harbor. English farmers who settled in Hyannis in 1639 turned to fishing for a living, and during the 19th century wind-powered vessels dominated maritime commerce; by 1840 more than 150 sea captains lived near the village’s sheltered harbor. The age of sail continued until steamships and the railroad arrived in 1854, and until 1872 the Old Colony Railroad’s tracks reached a stone wharf where passengers left the train to catch the boat to Nantucket. A breakwater protects Hyannis Harbor, dividing it into Lewis Bay on the north and the outer harbor. The Hyannis Harbor Light, built in 1849 and decommissioned in 1929, stands visible from the outer harbor outside Lewis Bay, while a privately owned replica of Nantucket’s Brant Point lighthouse stands in the inner harbor near Aselton Park. Long before European settlement, Wampanoag Indians of the Algonquian Nation lived in the area for thousands of years, sustained by the Cape’s sea harvest and temperate climate; Iyannough, leader of the Mattakeese tribe of Cummaquid, gave his name to Hyannis and to Wianno in Osterville. The harbor’s early boats were wooden craft ranging from canoes to ketches to catboats, and that maritime tradition is reflected in the Cape Cod Maritime Museum, opened in 2004 overlooking the harbor, where a replica of the 1886 Herbert Crosby catboat Sarah was built and moored in Hyannis Harbor.