Truro
Subtitle: the story of a Cape Cod town
By: Richard F. Whalen.
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Philadelphia?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Truro (Mass. : Town) -- History.; Cape Cod (Mass.) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-408) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  Introduction: A Sketch of Historic Truro Today 9; title: Part I: Pamet Indians, European Adventurers and; title: the Pilgrims 19; title: Chapter 1: Indian Graves, Skeletons and Wigwams 21; title: Chapter 2: Before the Pilgrims: European Adventurers 28; title: Chapter 3: America's Most Famous Settlers Arrive in Truro36; title: Chapter 4: Early Landowners and Indian Encounters 52; title: Part II: Settlers, Whalers and the Revolutionaries61; title: Chapter 5: From Pamet Settlement to Truro Township 63; title: Chapter 6: The Founding Father, the Minister and Slavery 77; title: Chapter 7: Truro Copes with Provincetown 100; title: Chapter 8: A Pioneer Whaling Town 109; title: Chapter 9: A Tea Tempest, Bombardments and 460 British Prisoners 119; title: Chapter 10: Truro in 1794, Its Harbors and First Lighthouse 141; title: Part III: Boom Times, Hard Times 159; title: Chapter 11: A Fishing Boom, But Many Lost at Sea 161; title: Chapter 12: Salt, Sheep and Summer Sojourners 175; title: Chapter 13: The Quick and the Dead 193; title: Chapter 14: Economic Decline, the Civil War and a Controversial Dike 201; title: Chapter 15: Shipwrecks, Mooncussers and Life-Savers 217; title: Chapter 16: Railroad Tracks, Fish Weirs and the Portuguese 237; title: Part IV: Twentieth Century Truro, A Seaside Town for Summer People 257; title: Chapter 17: Mort Small, the Outspoken Innkeeper 259; title: Chapter 18: Truro's Authors, Artists and Composers280; title: Chapter 19: National Defense and a National Park307; title: Chapter 20: Preserving Open Space While Shorelines Erode 325; title: Appendix A 345; title: Appendix B 353; title: Appendix C 363; title: Appendix D 365; title: Appendix E 367; title: Annotated Bibliography 371; title: Acknowledgements 409; title: Index 4 1 3.