Cape Cod, new & old . e Cape towns in thoseearly days. In 1815 the Wellfleet Manufactur-ing Company was incorporated with a capitalof six thousand dollars for the purpose of man-ufacturing cotton and woolen yarns. This wasthe same year that a great gale sweptj)ver thecountry near Buzzards Bay. With it camethe highest tide ever known, exceeding even the -fmemorable one of 1635. Trees were uprooted,salt-works destroyed, and vessels driven fromtheir moorings and landed on shore. Had thetide risen higher it would have inundated theentire Cape- Thus the history of the little town roundsitseK out, a
Cape Cod, new & old . e Cape towns in thoseearly days. In 1815 the Wellfleet Manufactur-ing Company was incorporated with a capitalof six thousand dollars for the purpose of man-ufacturing cotton and woolen yarns. This wasthe same year that a great gale sweptj)ver thecountry near Buzzards Bay. With it camethe highest tide ever known, exceeding even the -fmemorable one of 1635. Trees were uprooted,salt-works destroyed, and vessels driven fromtheir moorings and landed on shore. Had thetide risen higher it would have inundated theentire Cape- Thus the history of the little town roundsitseK out, as does the history of many ofits neighbors. Commerce, success, disaster,change, progress, and fluctuation; and then afinal settling into a catering to the summer \/people. The four tall towers of the wireless. 138 CAPE COD NEW AND OLD marching across the sky, are the last touchof the twentieth century upon the face of the f^j,ahttle town first settled as a fishing hamlet a IS^hu;idred and fifty-four years ago. /7 .^-r. im %
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