PROVINCETOWN

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PROVINCETOWN , a township at the N. end of Cape Cod, in Barnstable county, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Pop. (1890), 4642; (1900), 4247; (1910 U.S. census) 4369. Area about 91 sq. m. The township is served by the New

York

YORK
YORK (HOUSE OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, New Haven & Hart-ford railway, and by a steamship line to Boston. The harbour, which is important as a harbour of

refuge

REFUGE

, is protected on the east by land, and the Federal government has strengthened this protection by dikes and groins and other sand-catching devices; it has five lighthouses. There is a magnificent beach stretching 30 M. from Provincetown

village

VILLAGE

to Eastham. The

village

VILLAGE

is a summer resort. Through many generations the inhabitants have gained their living chiefly from the sea; the township's fisheries, however, have greatly decreased in importance (the invested

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

diminishing 67.1 % in 18851895). The prosperity it retains is not a little due to Portuguese from the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores, and to British Americans. Provincetown village was long second only to Gloucester in the cod fisheries, which low prices and the introduction of larger vessels and correspondingly costlier fittings have greatly
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list

; the lex Aurelia (70) reinstated them.
handicapped. Whaling retains a remnant of its old importance, and there are also mackerel and shore fisheries, oil-works, cold storage establishments for preserving fish for food and bait, and canning works for herring. The first settlement here was made about 168o; it became a " district " or precinct of Truro in 1714, and was established as a township with its present name in 1727. Provincetown harbour was possibly visited by Gaspar Cortereal in 1501; Gosnold explored it and its vicinity in 16o2, and John Smith was here in 1614. It was in this harbour that the " May-flower " compact (see MASSACHUSETTS) was

drawn

DRAWN

up and signed by the Pilgrims before they proceeded to Plymouth, in 1620; here John Carver was chosen the first governor of Plymouth Colony, and Provincetown was the first landing place (on Saturday the Ilth [o.s.] of November) of the Pilgrims in the New World. A memorial of the " compact," of polished Acton granite, 6 ft. high, with two bronze tablets, was erected before the town-

hall

by the Old Colony Commission, and on High Pole Hill on the loth of August 1907 the cornerstone of a second memorial (completed in 1909, dedicated Aug. 5, 191o), a granite tower, 252 ft. high, was laid, addresses being delivered by President Roosevelt, James

Bryce

BRYCE, JAMES (1838- )

and H. C. Lodge. In Provincetown harbour, on the 1st of January 1862, James M. Mason and John Slidell, the envoys of the Confederate States to Great Britain and France respectively, who had been taken by a Federal vessel from the British ship " Trent," were restored by the Federal authorities to H.B.M.S. " Rinaldo," after their detention in Fort Warren in Boston harbour.

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