Dick Flood Smith saltworks | Location 8
The fish flakes visible at left may have been connected with Dick Flood Smith’s salt works. Long Point Light is at right. 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
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 | These salt works were large enough to show up clearly on Maj. J. D. Graham’s extraordinary Map of the Extremity of Cape Cod of 1835, and their remnants also seem to be visible in A. F. Poole’s 1882 Bird’s Eye View of the Town of Provincetown.
¶ Republished on 26 December 2023.