Eldridge (or John) Nickerson house | Location 45 | Later at 214 Commercial 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 | Eldridge Nickerson was credited by Irving S. Rogers of the Advocate with having built the first set of salt works on Long Point, stretching about 3,000 feet. “Others were soon built,” Rogers wrote in his Puffs and Pot Shots column of 17 April 1941, “and at one time there were six mills for pumping water for about 8,000 feet of salt works, with an annual output of between 500 and 600 hogshead of extra quality salt.” His house once stood at 214 Commercial, but was demolished. In its place now stands the Art House.
¶ Republished on 26 December 2023.