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Truro: Highland Light
Truro: Highland Light Highland (Cape Cod) Light, Truro, Massachusetts.

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Truro, town (township), Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies adjacent to Provincetown and the northern tip of Cape Cod. The Pilgrims spent their second night in the New World (1620) at Corn Hill (Pilgrim Spring) in the northern part of the town, where they found fresh water. Settled in 1700, it was incorporated in 1709 and named for Truro, Cornwall, England; it soon became a bustling fishing centre. Futile attempts at farming and failure to continue successful fisheries (due to the silting of harbours and marine disasters offshore) led to the town’s decline, but an artists’ and writers’ colony ...(100 of 182 words)

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