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Peaked Hill Bars Station Site

Provincetown, MA

Also known as Peaked Hill Bar (1873-1887); Peaked Hill Bars (1888-1938)

The Peaked Hill Bars Station Site site was established in 1913 (at this site, 1873 at original site)

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This is not an active site. It was active 1913-1937 (Listed as inactive 1938)

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This site was closed (in) 1937

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This site was moved in NA. Active from 1873 to 1913 at original site. (See Station ID # 47.1)

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Designation number: 34

Station closed in 1937 at this site and property transferred to the National Park Service as part of Cape Cod National Seashore. No station buildings survive at this site.

Station Site Notes:

1872 site selected and in the process of construction; 1873 completed and equipped 1/1873; 1876(?) Relief boathouse built; 1881 moved due to coastal erosion; 1886 and 1887 contracts entered into for repairs and enlargements; 1888 extensive repairs and enlargements made (USLSS Annual Reports). First keeper appointed 12/12/1872; discontinued 1938(?) [1937] (USCG Historian's Website).

Buildings at this Station Site

There are no surviving station houses at this site.

View Buildings at this Station Site

Peaked Hill Bars Station House (built 1913 (at 2nd site))

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