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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 ...
The Wampanoag people inhabited and used all of the lands within the national seashore, including the dunes area, prior to European settlement in the 1600s. [4]The Massachusetts Humane Society built some of the earliest extant structures in the dunes area in 1872 to house members of the United States Life-Saving Service, whose mission was to assist survivors of shipwrecks.
This Provincetown village grew and thrived from 1818 until the late 1850s. When the settlers decided to leave Long Point, they took most of their houses with them – about 30 structures in all – by floating them across the harbor. [2] [3] During the Civil War, the military established a defensive coastal artillery post and garrison at this ...
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]
Coast Guard Station Provincetown, Massachusetts, crewmembers prepare to get underway for a harbor patrol May 22, 2013. 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 ...
Provincetown: Center Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1860 as the largest Methodist church in the world. The church was later the Chrysler Museum of Art. It is currently the home of the Provincetown Public Library. 21: Central Fire Station: Central Fire Station: February 26, 1998 : 399 Main St.
A ship laden with tea was supposed to arrive in Boston in 1773, where its contents would likely have been dumped. But it wrecked on Cape Cod!
Long Point Light Station is a historic lighthouse at the northeast tip of Long Point in Provincetown, Massachusetts. [3] As a navigational aid , it marks the southwest edge of the entrance to Provincetown Harbor .