Buzzards Bay Downtown, Cape Cod, MA, 1931, Utility Lines

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted August 26, 2012
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Photo taken overlooking scenic Buzzards Bay, MA along MA Route 28. This community is (and was) immediately adjacent to the Cape Cod Canal that completed by the United State Corps of Engineers by the late 1930s. Along the far left is a double circuit power line (13 kv?) with multipart insulators that fed this locale and possibly the other side of the Canal. This line was owned by the Plymouth County Electric Company at the time and has been badly knocked down twice by Mother Nature. The first occurance was during the Great Hurricane of 1938 and then the Hurricane of 1954. It was rebuilt each time. It also suffered some but lesser damage during Hurricane Donna in 1960. It remained for many years thereafter, pararelling a NHNY&H railroad right-of-way. The latter had a two-crossarm Western Union telegraph line along it as well. It extended to Provincetown, MA with hard-drawn solid copper wire (from a 1920s rebuild). It was dismantled by 1968.

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