Item number: MAS073
Antique Harbor Survey Map
1887
Maker: U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Antique chart of Wellfleet Harbor Surveyed in Accordance with Act of Congress, Approved August 5, 1886, shows Billingsgate Island, entrance to harbor, Great Island, Lieutenant's Island and Lieutenant's Island shoal with water depths and a proposed dredging channel. Billingsgate Island, also sometimes known as Bellingsgate Island, was an island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts in the United States. Originally settled as a fishing and whaling community as part of the town of Eastham, Massachusetts, Billingsgate Island was for a long time the site of a lighthouse used as a navigational aid in Cape Cod Bay. Local historians sometimes call it the Atlantis of Cape Cod. At its height in the early 19th century there were over thirty homes on Billingsgate Island but by the late 1930s or early '40s the island had been torn apart by coastal erosion. What remains is a sand bar south of the end of Jeremy Point in Wellfleet, exposed only at low tide. Measures approx. 15.5"h x 13.75"w to the neatline. Very good overall antique condition.
Genuine Antique Chart from 1887
Item Number: MAS073