[ 22 ] Anchor Memorial

In grassy area at Mayo’s Beach between
beach Parking lot and Kendrick Avenue

This anchor, brought up off Truro in 1944 in the net of The Highland Light, a fishing vessel out of Wellfleet, rested for many years on the grass in front of the Wellfleet Historical Society Museum on Main Street. The Town Bicentennial Committee dissolved before plans to properly honor our maritime past could be carried out, so in 1981 members of the Historical Society placed the anchor here in memory of all the men who sailed from Wellfleet Harbor.