Cape Cod Oil Works
Cape Cod Oil Works. From Bird’s eye view of the town of Provincetown, Barnstable County, Mass. (1835). Boston Public Library. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. G3764.P78A3 1882.P6
Cape Cod Oil Works. [Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell 10:65 / Dowd Collection / Provincetown History Preservation Project Page 4608]
Text last updated in 2015 | The wharf of John Atwood Jr. saw second duty as part of the Cape Cod Oil Works, established by Jonathan Cook in 1875, which extracted everything usable from the carcasses and excreta of whales and fish. To this day, the ruin of a brig hull, as elegant in its skeletal outline as an elongated wishbone, can be seen alongside the few remaining pilings of the Atwood wharf.
¶ Republished on 27 December 2023.