Bridge over Lobster Plain
A conjectural reconstruction of the bridge on the model of Long Point at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum. [2008, Dunlap]
From A map of the extremity of Cape Cod (1835). Boston Public Library. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. Call number G3762.C35 1835.G7.
Text last updated on 18 February 2017 |
It is difficult today — at least on foot — to comprehend the body of water that once bisected Long Point and formed the nucleus of the settlement. But it is easy to see its outlines from the air: a T-bone shape snaking as a sandy floor among the green dunes. At the narrow channel where the T crossed was a bridge. It’s shown on the model of the settlement at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.
¶ Republished on 26 December 2023.