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During the Provincetown visit, the ship will give passengers a chance to experience sailing as it was done in the 17th century. "Provincetown is the absolute best day sailing on the East Coast for ...
Provincetown (/ ˈ p r ɒ v ɪ n s ˌ t aʊ n /) is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of 3,664 as of the 2020 United States Census, [3] Provincetown has a summer population as high as 60,000. [4]
Provincetown Harbor is a large natural harbor located in the town of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The harbor is mostly 30 to 90 feet (9 to 27 m) deep and stretches roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) from northwest to southeast and 2 miles (3.2 km) from northeast to southwest – one large, deep basin with no dredged channel necessary for boats to enter ...
Born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1874, Donald MacMillan lived in Freeport, Maine, after the deaths of both his parents in 1883 (his father died while captaining a Grand Banks fishing schooner) and 1886 (his mother died suddenly), and was educated at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, graduating in 1898 with a degree in geology.
Cape Cod Bay is a large bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Measuring 604 square miles (1,560 km 2) below a line drawn from Brant Rock in Marshfield to Race Point in Provincetown, Massachusetts, it is enclosed by Cape Cod to the south and east, and Plymouth County, Massachusetts, to the west.
Station Provincetown was one of the first Coast Guard units in the 1st Coast Guard District to receive the new 29-foot Response Boat-Small. United States Coast Guard Station Provincetown is a United States Coast Guard station located in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The station is a sub-unit of Sector Southeast New England.
The Provincetown Historic District encompasses most of the dense urban center of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The district is roughly bounded to the north by U.S. Route 6; to the west by the west end of Commercial St.; to the south by Provincetown Harbor; and to the east by the southeast end of Commercial St. It covers about 300 acres (120 ha ...
The Provincetown CDP comprises the densely populated main settlement within the town of Provincetown. [4] The CDP is bounded by U.S. Route 6 to the north, by the western extension of Massachusetts Route 6A (Province Lands Road) to the southwest, by Provincetown Harbor to the south, and by the Truro town line to the east.