As you explore the West End of Provincetown, you begin to notice little blue plaques, like the one in this photo, on some of the homes.
These mark homes that at some point were located on Long Point, at the far end of the spit of sand that curves around the harbor. They once stood near where the Long Point lighthouse stands today.
In the 1850s, when the salt works that brought settlers to this remote location were no longer economically feasible, the settlers acted as thrifty New Englanders would and floated their homes across the bay and settled them into positions on the mainland.
