Historic Photos Courtesy of Wellfleet Historical Society


Site of the Herring River Dike, 1908	First Shovelfill	Dike Rebuild, 1974


Wellfleet's Herring River Marshes From Atwood-Higgins House 1903 Looking southeast, Merrick Island in distance.	Wellfleet's Herring River Marshes From Atwood-Higgins House 1903 Looking southwest between Merrick (left) & Bound Brook (right) Islands.	"Netting Herring"


"The Stone Schooner 'Lucie' taken from the Griffin's Island side looking East Nov. 1908"	Stone schooner at dike construction site, Nov. 1908.	Closing the breach, winter 1908-9.


"The Day Before the Closing"	"The Day of the Closing - The Sluices"	"The Dyke, Wellfleet, Mass."


Edward Hopper paintings of Herring River marshes, S.Truro, 1930-31	Edward Hopper paintings of Herring River marshes, S. Truro, 1930-31	Edward Hopper paintings of Herring River marshes, S. Truro, 1930-31