by Steve Lam | Feb 27, 2015 | Cape Cod Photo Galleries, History
We surely don’t have to tell anyone how the weather has been here on Cape Cod this winter. Those who remember are comparing our recent weather systems to the Blizzard of 1978. Many Massachusetts residents’ most prominent recollection of that infamous storm...
by Steve Lam | Dec 22, 2014 | History
When we think about Cape Cod in relation to fishing we inevitably think of cod, haddock, striped bass, oysters, steamers and lobsters. For a long time mackerel was also one of the area’s primary catches. Mackerel is a migratory fish that arrives in the...
by Steve Lam | Nov 25, 2014 | History
This is the Wellfleet Rail Road Station as it appeared at the turn of the century (circa 1900). In 1870 the Old Colony Railroad reached Wellfleet. There were two railroad stations in town. The South Wellfleet Station was located where the South Wellfleet General Store...
by Steve Lam | Nov 5, 2014 | History
Provincetown in the late 19th century was a prosperous fishing village and a critical harbor of refuge for ships traveling between the ports of Boston and New York. Before the Cape Cod Canal’s opening in 1914 Provincetown’s deep water harbor was vital to...
by Steve Lam | Sep 17, 2014 | History
Wellfleet Harbor certainly looked different back in the day. Like the rest of the Cape Cod, Wellfleet had been completely denuded of trees soon after it was settled by the Europeans. The windmills and derricks were for salt works that supplied Wellfleet’s...
by Steve Lam | Sep 11, 2014 | History
Cape Cod has long been synonymous with fishing. Yet up until the widespread adaptation of refrigeration and icing, the fishing industry was reliant upon salt to preserve its catch, simply put without salt there would have been no fishing. Before the railroad, the only...
