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began to leave Long Point and return to the main town. Most of the families took their houses with them when they left Long Point – the local Deacon's specialty was moving buildings, and the houses, about 30 in all, were placed on rafts and floated across
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1883 – another source from 1890 states that "John Atwood built a wharf on the north side of the point, which is standing to-day, used by the Cape Cod Oil Works, the only buildings now left excepting the lighthouse." The exact date of the factory's closing is unknown, but official Army correspondence in 1917 makes no mention of it. The only known photograph of the factory, taken in 1891 and retrieved from the
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three children. The Long Point community continued to grow, and by 1846, the Town of
Provincetown voted to build a schoolhouse on Long Point. By then, the village was home to 38 fishing families, with nearly 200 adults and 60 children. In describing the experience of living on Long Point in the early 1800s, one author wrote:
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Mrs. Nickerson was born, lived her girlhood years and received her early education in the Long Point village which was once a small but flourishing fishing hamlet on what is now the barren hook of the end of Cape Cod. The large, barn-like school and the 30 or so houses were later moved across the bay
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Many of those historic "floater homes", as they came to be called, are still standing in
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Perhaps the inhabitants grew tired of sharks sunning themselves on their front lawns, perhaps sea creatures carried off their pet dogs and cats; whatever the reason the citizens of Long Point scheduled a colossal moving day. The women packed the household possessions in dories, while the men floated
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Beyond the challenges imposed by the occasional drought, however, the residents of Long Point came to recognize the potential for a much greater natural force – one that threatened to impact them with little advance warning. While Long Point provides a natural barrier to protect
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Congress on May 18, 1826, the government earmarked $ 2,500 (roughly $ 67,000 today) to acquire four acres at the extreme tip of the point, and to construct a lighthouse, which was completed in 1827. By 1830, the lighthouse became the site of Long Point's first school, starting with only
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was extremely profitable in the first part of the 19th century. Not only was salt shipped out for domestic consumption, but it was also used to supply the fishing industry, which dried and salted the catch to preserve the fish for shipment. The annual output of the saltworks on Long Point reached
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factory in the area that had been the barracks. As the land was still a military reservation, the Army tried to have the factory removed a number of times in the ensuing years. Records from this period are scarce, but Army archives indicate that the factory was still operating in the middle of
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The batteries on Long Point remained operational until the post was abandoned in 1872, but they were never used in combat. In the years following the war, the people of
Provincetown, aware that they were protected against an enemy that would never materialize, soon labelled the batteries "Fort
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The building of the Erie Canal allowed the bulky and low-priced
Syracuse salt to be transported to Chicago and beyond relatively quickly and inexpensively by way of the Great Lakes. Although the Erie Canal was known by many names, those in Syracuse called it 'the ditch that salt
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named John Atwood built the first house on Long Point in 1818. He was followed by Prince
Freeman, and next by Eldridge Smith. Others soon followed in increasing numbers, and in 1822, Prince Freeman, Jr. became the first child born on "The Point", as it was called by the locals.
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Atlantic was so narrow that encroaching storms played havoc with it and threatened at one time to sweep the narrow point away. It was too valuable a harbor to be destroyed and the government took it
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true of Long Point, being isolated from its own nearest neighbor, the rest of the town of
Provincetown. To reach the closest edge of town from Long Point by land, one had to make a difficult trek across a 3-mile (4.8 km) beach route past
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from shore. There are reports of up to seventy-five 200-pound (91 kg) barrels of white shad caught in one haul, fetching $ 16 per barrel – accounting for inflation, that single haul netted roughly $ 40,700 in today's dollars.
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were built throughout the village to collect and store rain water for daily use. During periods of drought, barrels of water had to be filled up in Provincetown, and then transported over to the point.
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lighthouse" – had deteriorated to such a poor condition that it might be destroyed by a strong storm. In 1875, that light was replaced with the brick tower that stands today.
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994:"Old resident dies, born on Point (Obituary of Angelia Freeman Nickerson)"
1740:. Boston, MA: Wright and Potter Printing Co, State Printers. p. 321.
1713:. Vol. 33, no. 3. Mclean, Virginia: CDSG Press. pp. 49–55.
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1118:(1st ed.). New York: Crown journeys. p. 37.
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1804:Claesson, Stefan (Archival Photographer) (1891).
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1573:"The Railroad Comes To Provincetown"
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1937:Aerial drone view of Long Point
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1454:. ILovetheFingerLakes.com. 2010
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729:Long Point Battery, circa 1865.
1873:American Lighthouse Foundation
1404:Paine-Smith, Nancy W. (1922).
1048:. January 1997. Archived from
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2981:Ghost towns in Massachusetts
1530:. July 1889 . Archived from
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1223:American Antiquarian Society
1203:American Antiquarian Society
969:Jennings, Herman A. (1890).
759:Late 19th century to present
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3011:Provincetown, Massachusetts
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1894:McLaughlin, Jerome (2004).
775:Breakwater, built in 1911.
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1678:. February 23, 1942
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1110:Cunningham, Michael
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1921:Paine-Smith (1922)
1839:"Long Point Light"
1820:, courtesy of the
1611:Vorse, Mary Heaton
1598:Paine-Smith (1922)
1480:Paine-Smith (1922)
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785:
769:
733:
693:Long Point Battery
686:
662:American Civil War
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507:Syracuse, New York
466:
455:
378:Long Point Battery
260: • Total
231: • Total
18:Long Point Battery
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2728:Elizabeth Islands
2703:Barneys Joy Point
2652:Standish (Boston)
2461:
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2234:Northwest Harwich
2209:Monomoscoy Island
1923:, pp. 34–37.
1867:Trapani, Bob Jr.
1649:, pp. 78–79.
658:Mary Heaton Vorse
631:Mary Heaton Vorse
560:Massachusetts Bay
386:"Fort Ridiculous"
370:coastal artillery
332:
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315:E. Daylight (EDT)
218:Battery abandoned
202:Village disbanded
124:42.027°N 70.172°W
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1187:1634–1699:
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470:breakwaters
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2366:Craigville
2351:Bournedale
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2189:Forestdale
2018:Barnstable
1998:Barnstable
1939:on YouTube
1258:August 25,
921:References
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593:sand dunes
582:salt marsh
499:Erie Canal
493:Challenges
476:with nine
335:Long Point
325:feature ID
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168:Barnstable
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112:42°01′37″N
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2880:Massasoit
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827:in 1944.
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487:hogsheads
478:windmills
474:saltworks
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366:Civil War
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2935:Washburn
2905:Prescott
2900:Plymouth
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2264:Sagamore
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2114:Yarmouth
2099:Sandwich
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