Provincetown
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- Names
Provincetown
Precinct of Cape Cod
Village of Provincetown
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- On N tip of Cape Cod; visted by Pilgrims (before Plymouth settlement of November, 1620), traders & fishermen prior to 1700; exposed to seaborne attacks during Revolutionary & French & Amerindian Wars; Eugene O'Neill produced his first play here 1916.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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- Died
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