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 5, 2014 | History
Sometimes the decline of Cape Cod’s fishing industry is referred to in a way that makes it sound like a recent development. In truth, the decline has been ongoing for over a century. By the time that this photo was taken in 1944 the effects of the long-term...
