Sunday, May 18, 2014

[ 1 ] Wellfleet Harbor Plaque


This bronze marker, now on a boulder at entrance to Town Hall Parking lot, was presented to the Town of Wellfleet by the Provincetown Tercentenary Committee in 1920. It was originally mounted on Colonial Hall, the Second Congregational Meeting House bought by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1913, and moved here in 1914 from its original site in the South Wellfleet burial ground.   Moved again across the parking lot in 1919 to house Town Offices, it was destroyed by fire during a blizzard in 1961. Rebuilt from original 1833 plans, it was enlarged and an elevator added in 1997.

South Wellfleet Congregational Meeting House, 1833,
from Bronze Plaque in South Wellfleet Cemetery


South Wellfleet Congregational Meeting House
Shown in this photograph taken about 1914, are Abbott Paine and
friends on fence in front of the then abandoned Meeting House




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