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  History of Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA

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Visit Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1700 - Provincetown is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1727 - Provincetown is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
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  Provincetown in 1839
  
  Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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• 1845 - PROVINCETOWN. [Pop. 2,122. Inc. 1727.]
  Provincetown was originally a part of Truro. It lies at the very extremity of the peninsula, forming a sort of claw, to an arm, which the county...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1853 - Loss of Schooner Pledge.
  Captain Chapman, his brother, and two men, belonging to the fishing schooner Pledge, of Provincetown, which was run down and sunk on Grand Banks, by...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Provincetown
  Provincetown, a post-township in Barn stable co., Massachusetts. This is a noted fishing place, on the extreme point of Cape Cod, 50 miles E. S. E....Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1890 - Money meltdown
  Antone Fratus of Provincetown selected his pillow as a safe place for keeping money and there deposited $300 in an envelope. His two-year-old child...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Provincetown Massachusetts, 1890
  Provincetown is one of the most unique towns of the Commonwealth. It occupies the extreme northern point of Barnstable County and Cape Cod; and is,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Provincetown
  Prov'incetown, a post-village in Provincetown township, Barnstable co., Mass., at the northern extremity of the long peninsula called Cape Cod. It is ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Provincetown, 1898
  
  Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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  Wharves at Provincetown, 1898
  
  Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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  Old Church Spire
  Provincetown, Mass.
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• 1906
  Provincetown, a banking post-village and summer-resort of Provincetown township (town), Barnstable co., Mass., at the northern extremity of Cape Cod...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  New Central House, Provincetown, Mass.
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•  1927 - December 17 – The U.S. submarine S-4 is accidentally rammed and sunk by the United States Coast Guard cutter John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts, killing everyone aboard despite several unsuccessful attempts to raise the submarine.
  
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  December 17, 1927
  
  
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  Easterly on Commercial Street, Provincetown, Mass.
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•  1944 - HURRICANE HITS NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND COASTS. HIGH WINDS LASH JERSEY, LONG ISLAND.
  ...The main street of Provincetown, Mass., on the tip of Cape Cod, was under water and civilian defense forces evacuated 23 persons from the Cape Cod ...Read MORE...