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Identifier: capecodoldcolony00inbrig (find matches)
Title: Cape Cod and the Old colony
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Brigham, Albert Perry, 1855-1932. cn
Subjects: Pilgrim fathers
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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it must be remembered that ships weresmall, and that sticks were used which wouldbe disdained by the ship-carpenter of to-day. A flint-glass factory was erected in Sand-wich in 1825; and this industry gained a per-manent place in Cape history, for a greatfactory was built at a later time, whose stacksand walls are among the first features to beseen as one goes upon the Cape in modemyears. In 1854, the capital employed was fivehundred thousand dollars, and the yearlyproduct was considerably beyond that figure.For a long time these glassworks were thelargest in America. The business ceasedabout 1880. The Old Colony coast strip is not withoutits mills and factories but it does not go instrongly for manufacturing industries. Yar-mouth has wire-work, Provincetown puts upcanned goods, and there is a brickyard atWest Barnstable, where some of the old glacialor interglacial clays of the Cape come to thesurface. The only big manufacture on Cape Cod isat its doorway. There was a blacksmith shop
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On the Land 173 in Bourne in 1829. It had developed into amachine shop in 1849; and made among otherthings, tools for use in the new gold mines ofCalifornia. To-day Sagamore has grown uparound the immense Keith Car Works. Theemployees fill the village and come in daily frommiles of the surroimding country, while thesurprised tourist, making his first journey tothe Cape, thinks the smoke and clatter quiteout of harmony with his expectations, andstruggles in vain to look out on the waters ofthe Bay, because he cannot see through theendless chain of new and empty freight carsthat have been rolled out on the siding leadingtoward Sandwich. There is a small factory far out on the Cape,at North Truro station, which is more in har-mony with its environment. Here are madejellies of beach plimi and wild grape, basketsout of cat-tail flags, and trays and table matsout of beach grass. But the main producthere is bayberry wax. The gray roimd berries,the size of shot, are brought in here in theautu

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