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Town of Provincetown, before and after the railroad. Most notably, there were no roads in/out of town until the US government artificially sealed off the Eastern Harbor. This was done so as to prevent storm washout from breaching the northernmost part of that harbor; a breach would have made Provincetown an island permanently, and would have destroyed the valuable harbor. This later provided the foundation for the railroad to finally come to Provincetown in 1873, and for a formal road in 1877.

Top (1835) map extracted from "A Map Of The Extremity Of Cape Cod Including the Townships of Provincetown & Truro: A Chart Of Their Sea Coast And Of Cape Cod Harbour, State of Massachusetts", by the U.S. Topographical Engineers (later were rolled into the US Army Corps of Engineers. Grolltech: Colorized and reoriented with north to top of page. Bottom (1887) map extracted from "Massachusetts, Provincetown Sheet", by the US Geological Survey.

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Date (top) and 1887 (bottom)
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Top: Graham, Maj. James D., Hood, Washington, U.S. Topo. Engrs., United States Topographical Bureau

Bottom: Henry Gannett and Marcus Baker, US Geological Survey (USGS)
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