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Cape Cod was a rural community in the late 1800’s. However, sea captains were familiar with many ports and harbors, and thus were well traveled. Wellfleet and South Wellfleet offered a sound educational background, and a Protestant religious background. If you lived in South Wellfleet during this time of change, you would have been familiar with the railroad schedule, women welcomed it as a way to travel beyond their communities, while city folk arrived by rail in the summer.

Second Congregational Church, South Wellfleet

Rear view of church, Marconi Towers in the background

Abbott O. Paine, born 1892, only child of Lewis Paine, Eva’s nephew

Veenie Pierce, South Wellfleet oysterman

Cahoon Hollow Life Saving Station, now the Beachcomber in Wellfleet

One of the many Paine uncle’s homes in Paine Hollow, South Wellfleet

The train leaving the Wellfleet station and heading to South Wellfleet

1880 photo of the schooner Nautilus, Captained by Otis W. Paine, Eva’s father

Stubb’s boatyard in South Wellfleet

Back ell of Eva’s house in Paine Hollow, original owner Otis W. Paine, her father

Young Veenie Pierce

Robert S. Paine (1927-2017), grandson of Lewis, second son of Abbott O. Paine

Another photo of the S. Wellfleet Church, abandoned

Church as it was in its worst repair before it was moved to the center of Wellfleet to become Colonial Hall.

Typical harbor view from that period. Drying sail.

The result of a Blackfish Drive

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2nd Congo Church S. Wellfleet

90-ton schooner the Nautilus moored in Black Fish Creek, late 1800’s

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