Welfleet Harbor circa early 1800s

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...
Cape Cod’s Salt Works

Cape Cod’s Salt Works

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...