John Atwood Jr. house | Location 38 | Now at 6 Winthrop Street
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 | John Atwood Jr. (1811-1896) was a force to be reckoned with. His wharf was the only one on Long Point and his store, similarly, was the only one on this distant spit of land. He was no less active after removing upland. Atwood’s house and wood shed were situated at the end of the bridge over the Lobster Plain. The house is now at 6 Winthrop Street.
Amy Whorf McGuiggan wrote on 5 February 2018: John Atwood (1784-1871) was the son of Samuel (1735->1810), who is one of the six Provincetown men who have (so far) been identified and documented as Revolutionary War patriots. It would have been this John who built the first house (and a wharf) on Long Point, about 1816. His son John Jr. was born in 1811 and died in 1896. The older brother of John Jr. was Nathaniel Ellis (1807-1886), whose knowledge of natural history attracted the interest of members of the scientific community, including Louis Agassiz.
¶ Republished on 26 December 2023.