Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 7, Page 81
Four photos of houses being moved across the water to new locations much the same way houses were floated over from Long Point to the west end of Provincetown around 1850. | |
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Bluefishing, Cold Storages, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Gull Hill (Provincetown, Mass.), Johnson Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Waterfronts, West End (Provincetown, Mass.), and Boxell, Althea |
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Edwin Cooper writes: Our family story is that the house at 6 Law Street was floated across the harbor from Long Point in 1860. My Great Grandfather Edwin Walter Smith was born in the house in 1851. The house was dated to the early 1790 due to the iron nails used in its construction.