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Truro Town
The complete chapter on this town from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, published 1890. 40 words, covering 7 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
7 settlementsWhat 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.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beach Point | 36 | - | 2 | 3,409 |
| North Truro | 29 | - | 2 | 3,352 |
| Pilgrim Heights | 33 | - | 2 | 3,316 |
| Pond Village | 31 | - | 2 | 3,355 |
| South Truro | 40 | - | 2 | 3,527 |
| Truro | 46 | 1 | 2 | 2,961 |
| Truro Station (historical) | 43 | - | 2 | 2,997 |
Settlements in this township
7 placesEvery 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 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, published 1890. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
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, published 1890, in the public domain in the United States and 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.