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Take a Walk through History

The Provincetown Museum Presents Three Walking Tour Guides to Lead You into the Past

A walk through Provincetown is a visual exercise in history. Over the years since the Pilgrims found its shores in November of 1620, the town has taken many forms, from whaling village to artists’ colony, and most recently, tourist destination.

Provincetown's many identities are tangible in the visual contours of its streets and buildings today.

Each of these identities is tangible in the visual contours of Provincetown’s streets and buildings today.

Doing its best to make these layers of history palpable, the Provincetown Museum has recently made available three booklets of walking tours that can be taken in Provincetown.

Walking Tour No. 1 leads the would-be ambler on a trek through town center, beginning at Town Hall and ending at the cemetery after visits to numerous locations that evidence the town’s own peregrination through time, such as the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, the Masonic Hall, MacMillan Wharf, Adam’s Pharmacy, and the old railroad station.

Provincetown’s artistic East End is explored in Walking Tour No. 2, which takes its travelers from Pearl Street to Allerton Street, stopping at the homes of many early Provincetown artists and writers in between, including those of Charles Hawthorne, Ambrose Webster, Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, John Dos Passos, and Richard Miller.

Walking Tour No. 3 traverses Provincetown’s West End, making stops at the Pilgrim’s first landing place and such historic buildings as the Murchison House, Captain Marion Berry’s home, The Wharf Theater, and The Red Inn.

Buy one or all of these guides and take a journey through history this winter during your visit to Provincetown. The walking tour guides can be purchased for $3 each online through the Pilgrim Monument Museum Store at www.pilgrim-monument.org.

They are also available at the Provincetown Chamber of Commerce, the Public Library, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, or The Provincetown Bookshop.