Hatches Harbor bridge
From A map of the extremity of Cape Cod: including the townships of Provincetown & Truro: with chart of their sea coast and of Cape Cod Harbour, State of Massachusetts, by James Duncan Graham (1835). One map on four sheets, 56 by 70 inches. Boston Public Library. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. Call number G3762.C35 1835.G7.
Text last updated on 16 April 2017 | In 1839, a bridge was constructed across the Race Run to make it easier for the residents of the Race Point settlement and the keepers of the lighthouse to get to town. I am surmising that it was built across the narrowest point of the race, but I have yet to see any historical evidence to corroborate this, nor do I know when it was demolished — or whether it simply deteriorated into oblivion. (Although I’ve superimposed a possible location for the bridge on this 1835 map, it would not yet have been constructed when the map was compiled and issued.)
¶ Republished on 15 December 2023.