Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 8, Page 55

Continuation of text and photos from 'Life Savers of Cape Cod'. Pictures of the station at Peaked Hill Bars in Provincetown, MA. circa 1904. Description of the sunken inner and outer bars that have been the cause of so many ship wrecks causing that stretch of beach to be known as the 'ocean graveyard'.

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Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro, and Boxell, Althea