#PILGRIMS AND INDIAN GAY PORN FULL#
īy then the colonial revival was in full flower, and the Yankees in town decided to make as much as they could of the Pilgrims’ five-week layover in the area. Engrs., United States Topographical BureauBottom: Henry Gannett and Marcus Baker, US Geological Survey (USGS) – United States Topographical Bureau (top), US Geological Survey (bottom), Public Domain. These maps show how East Harbor was diked, making way for the railroad and then the automobile. Businesses already struggling couldn’t afford to rebuild. Then in 1898, a storm known as the Portland Gale wiped out nearly half of Ptown’s wharves and sunk 20 boats in the harbor. A depression followed in the 1890s, which caused fish prices to plummet. Then the fisheries started to dwindle, and fishermen had poor catches in 1889. Petroleum replaced whale oil, and whaling declined.
By 1885, the town had 55 wharves and 114 schooners.īut then came hard times. Its year-round population reached its zenith in 1875, with 4,357 people – about 50 percent more than today. They fished for herring, bass and mackerel in the harbor, and for cod off the Grand Banks and in the Bay of Chaleur. Hired to work on whaling ships, they then followed the Yankees into fishing. By the 1840s the Portuguese, mostly from the Azores, began to arrive. The town grew steadily as whaling took off. Finally, when that war ended, Ptown came into its own. Image courtesy New York Public Library.įishing families returned after the war, but the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812 interrupted its growth. Northeastern view of Provincetown in the 19th century. But then the residents abandoned their homes during the war, as British warships would just sail in, stop the fishing and demand provisions. It reached about 200 people when the American Revolution started. Throughout the 18 th century, Provincetown’s population fluctuated. So for 166 years, Ptowners were squatters. It wasn’t until 1893 that the General Court allowed the residents of Ptown to hold title to the land they lived on. But the colony owned the dunes and the scrub forest. They were allowed to squat in the built-up section, so long as they fished and farmed. The Massachusetts General Court didn’t grant the inhabitants the right to own their land. The Massachusetts General Court made those lands part of Truro, and then in 1727 incorporated the Town of Provincetown.īut again, Ptown retained its uniqueness.
In 1692, Massachusetts absorbed Plymouth Colony and Provincetown became known as the Province Lands. It’s unclear when year-rounders moved to Provincetown. Ptown was a transient, seasonal community, described as a wild place inhabited by “fishermen, smugglers, outlaws, escaped indentured servants, heavy drinkers and the ‘ Mooncussers’.” The residents lived outside of the Puritans’ strict social order. And unlike other Puritan towns, it didn’t have to support a minister. Unlike other colonial towns, Ptown didn’t get a charter. The governor, Thomas Prence, got a deed for the land from local Indians in exchange for some blankets, kettles and tools. For the next decades, Plymouth Colony regulated and taxed the fishery, hoping to raise money for a school. They did a little exploring, stole a little Indian corn, signed the Mayflower Compact and then moved on to Plymouth.īut they realized the deep, sheltered harbor teemed with fish, and they took advantage of it. Ptown, The Beginningīefore they ever set foot on Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrims made landfall on the extreme northern tip of Cape Cod.