. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ground heated and softened them so that thelower ends were drawn together by a rope and were hooped by strips of white oak or birch ormaple and headed by boards of pine ; then they weretumbled upon the wharves by the hundred, costing in theneighborhood of seventy-five cents apiece. All winterlong these barrels and half barrels, and in later yearsfirkins, were being made by our bygone coopers. The salt industry was another enterprise connected withour fisheries. As early as the year 1836,! which we arenow recalling, th
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ground heated and softened them so that thelower ends were drawn together by a rope and were hooped by strips of white oak or birch ormaple and headed by boards of pine ; then they weretumbled upon the wharves by the hundred, costing in theneighborhood of seventy-five cents apiece. All winterlong these barrels and half barrels, and in later yearsfirkins, were being made by our bygone coopers. The salt industry was another enterprise connected withour fisheries. As early as the year 1836,! which we arenow recalling, there were many acres of salt works in thevicinity of Sandy Cove and of Beach Island. The accompanying map, which is taken from a govern-ment coast survey of that period, indicates the positionsand proportions of these salt vats. The process % was *S. T. Snow. t Captain Wm. V. Creed says : When we first went fishing, 1828, salt was notmade here, but was brought from Cape Cod. % Details as told by Nathaniel Treat, who made and tended salt works for ,» C^-^V*< .4^1 ! ..,•. , f *MSK* - *SL . » ?*%
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