Highland Lighthouse

When Truro, the second most northerly town on Cape Cod, was first settled as Pamet 1646, it was part of the larger area then called Nauset. Pamet's name was changed to Truro (after a Cornish town it was said to resemble) when it was incorporated as a separate town in 1709. Truro developed a whaling fleet based at Pamet River Harbor, which comprised nine sloops by the early 1800s. In its early years, mariners knew Pamet as Dangerfield because of the frequent wrecks off its shores.

From my house in Dennis on Cape Cod, when the weather is clear, I can see the flash of the Cape Cod Lighthouse at Highland (often referred to as the Highand Light) on the back shore of the Cape, 19 miles across the bay. It's a comforting sight for any sailor who has wandered the world's oceans. In fact those who go "in peril on the seas" have owed their lives to the faithful keepers of lighthouses.