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Cape Cod National Seashore | Long Point

John Nickerson salt works [Long Point Settlement No. 48]. Before the Civil War, it would have been possible to look Continue reading →

Cape Cod National Seashore | Long Point

Dick Flood Smith salt works [Long Point Settlement No. 8]. These salt works were large enough to show up clearly Continue reading →

21 Center Street

Salt works. Second only to the fish themselves, salt was the most important natural product in any 18th- and 19th-century Continue reading →

Myrick Atwood’s Wharf

83 Commercial Street. The wharf that became renowned as the home of the Wharf Players Theatre was a cod liver Continue reading →

Elisha Freeman’s Wharf

125 Commercial Street. Elisha Freeman’s Wharf was one of the most important in town, built around 1830 and run in Continue reading →

125 Commercial Street

J. Paine Jr. Lumber & Coal Yard. A generation before the enormous cold storage plant that many older townspeople remember Continue reading →

125 Commercial Street

Cape Cod Cold Storage Company | Atlantic Coast Fisheries Cold Storage. Cold storage transformed Provincetown. In 1893, the town presented Continue reading →

125 Commercial Street

Cape Cod Cold Storage engine house. What little aesthetic charm the cold storage plant possessed came from the deep front Continue reading →

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