Tearing ~- Down Bridge ugh Truro’s old railroad over the Pamet River is due

two jetties put out that were‘ of no use and now this year another $9O,OOO has been spent and in two the job, the subject came in for

lively discussion at a meeting of Where They Were years time that! will have been the Truro Neighborhood Association thrown away. If we keep listening Monday night when Dexter Keezer, to all the well informed people and president, read a letter from Walter Editor, The Advocate:- I engineers we are going to spend a

In The Advocate of December lot of money and have nothing 15th there was a column in regards When it was first proposed to

Prokosch, a seasonal resident of Tom’s Hill Road expressing vigo- rous opposition to removal of the to the Pamet River Railroad bridge. remove the bridge and that is all trestle and adding that he, Mr. Some persons who has just be- that was wanted, it would only

gun to come to Truro and only have cost the o r i g i n a l $2500 stay about three months seems to which was asked for and received.

Prokosch, had retained counsel to

have learned a lot about Truro in Then if it had been let out for bids I oppsoc the move.

Mr. Prokosch, reportedly an archi- tect and engineer expressed con- a short time. He may be an engi- at that time, it would have! been cern for the future of the river and neer and also an architect, but he done as it should have been and surrounding marshland from filling knows Very little about Pamet the matter closed, but somehow or and encroachment if the trestle River. were removed, and offered his be- lief that dwellers on the Corn Hill side of the river should continue to have access via the old trestle to the Town beach at Pamet Harbor.

Although sentimental attachment for the old railroad bridge over which the first railroad train travel- ed to reach Truro and Province- town in 1873 has been widespread in the town, the trestle has been pronounced a hazard to foot travel and navigation.

It has fallen into acute disrepair since abandonment of the New

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When Pilgrims Arrived

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‘railroad put up that trestle,

Engineers have recommended its removal and at two Town Meetings a majority of voters agreed to ap- propriate funds for the purpose $2500 at each session. The Town has since paid $2,000 to the railroad for 800 f ee t of New Haven right-of-way which includes the trestle area. Selectman Vincent Benson remind-

ed +& well-attended meeting of the voters action on the trestle and that the legal process for its removal was ling since under way. Bath the Town’s Conservation Commission and Harbor Committee have! given their

approval to the taking down of the President Ulysses Grant, they Plymouth. on the rear platform. Truro Truro, in fact, came close to says, “We have to take

Then in the Winter of 1872 and youngsters for generations dived becoming the Pilgrim settlement: as of the engineers.”

members that state legis