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LOC: There is no apostrophe in the town name, Buzzards Bay.

The 8-mile long, sea-level Cape Cod Canal opened on July 29, 1914.

>> There is no apostrophe in the town name ... Some Yankees are possessive about their apostrophes ;) The Gray Lady has written the words Buzzard’s Bay for over 150 years ... President Cleveland had a summer home at Gray Gables mansion in Buzzard’s Bay (located about a mile and a half from the site of the railroad bridge pictured above). Bain News got it right methinks.      

This was the first railroad bridge built to cross the new Cape Cod Canal. It was a single-span bascule drawbridge. The 160-foot bridge was completed in 1910, and, as technogeo said, the grand opening of the Cape Cod Canal was July 29, 1914, [1]

"The bridge was able to pivot and a double track ran across it. Because of the anticipated heavy loads, the bridge itself had the [an] immense weight of 1200 tons. Only two, 65-horsepower electric motors were needed to open and close the bridge in only one minute." [2]

Unfortunately the original 100-foot wide canal was hopelessly too narrow and too shallow, and did little but lose money for its investors. As a result, the Cape Cod Canal was purchased by the U.S. Government in 1928. The canal was widened and deepened to nearly 500 feet wide and 32 feet deep.

A new 544-foot wide vertical lift bridge, known as the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge (also known as the Buzzard's Bay Railroad Bridge), was completed in 1935, and is in use to this day.[3]   The new bridge weighs in at almost twice the weight of the old: 2,050 tons.

A 1987 photo by photographer Martin Stupich of the "new" vertical lift bridge, from the collection of The Library of Congress, is shown below:
 
"General View of Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge" by The Library of Congress

 

"Unfortunately the original...canal was hopelessly too narrow and too shallow...." This seems to be the case with every canal ever built.

It is still standing www.pilgrim-monument.org/t3/index.php?id=38

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Massachusetts Photography, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

This photo would be a great addition to the Massachusetts Monuments and Memorials group, where we have some beautiful recent photographs of this monument.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Cape Cod and Islands Life, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

The Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association built the Pilgrim Monument to honor the Pilgrims’ first landing in Provincetown. President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone in 1907. In 1910, President William Howard Taft dedicated the finished 252-foot tower. In 1910, the Cape’s first building built to house a museum opened at the base of the monument, to educate the public about Provincetown’s role in Pilgrim history and American history.

Probably The Richeson Case - death of Avis Linnell "In 1911, the 35-year-old Richeson was thisclose to marrying a wealthy heiress and daughter of a Boston Brahmin when he had the misfortune of impregnating one of his conquests, an 18-year-old choir singer named Avis Linnell. As a result of the difficult position he found himself in, like so many others, Richeson chose murder as the solution to his problems." markgribben.com/index.php?cat=13&paged=1