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Decorative drawing: a village crossroads. Not a photograph of this place.

Truro Town

The complete chapter on this town from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, published in 1890. 40 words, covering 7 settlements.

Contents

1 section

The section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.

The modern record here

7 settlements

What the federal record holds for each settlement inside this town: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.

SettlementFires Storm reportsMines and quarries Specimens
Beach Point36-23,409
North Truro29-23,352
Pilgrim Heights33-23,316
Pond Village31-23,355
South Truro40-23,527
Truro46122,961
Truro Station (historical)43-22,997

Settlements in this township

7 places

Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 7 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.

The chapter

40 words

Reproduced complete and unedited. The text is machine-read from a scan of the 1890 printing, so expect the errors a machine makes reading a century-old page: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the book's own.

Truro Town

Exploration by the Pilgrims.- Proprietors of the Pamet Lands.- Incorporation of Truro.- Boundaries.- Natural Feanrres. - King's Highway. - Pounds. - Indnstries.- The Wreck of the Somerset. - The Revolution. - Oale of 1841. - Various Town Affairs. - Civil History. - Churches.-Burying Grounds. - Schools.-Villages. - Biographical Sketches. 933

Provenance

Text from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, by Deyo, Simeon L, published 1890 and in the public domain in the United States. Digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.