Moving Homes
- A Truro home being lifted by a crane to be sighted on a new foundation, a safer distance from the cliff.
Tradition of Moving Houses
Challenging Notions of Home
Process of Moving a Home
Moving 116 North Pamet Road, Truro
Studying Up House Moves
One of the first stories I heard upon moving to Provincetown was of homes being floated across the harbor from Long Point, the narrow spit of land that makes up the outermost part of the Cape. The story goes that the Long Point lighthouse was built in 1816 and within two years, several families of fisherman had moved out to the point. Within three decades a small village had formed of about sixty-one families that all participated in some form of maritime industry or salt works. The salt works that had brought the settlers to this remote location were no longer economically viable, necessitating the community to relocate and pick up their houses and float them across the bay. Local lore says that it was such a smooth move that one of the wives was cooking pancakes as they floated to the opposite side of the bay, where these homes were given new residency primarily throughout the West End of town.
