COBB ARCHIVE:
(508) 349-0200
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Tuesday + Thursday
HIGHLAND HOUSE MUSEUM
Closed for the season.
(508) 487-3397
June 1st - September 30th 2026
A 1908 Highland House Vacation Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Dodge vacationed at the Highland House between June 25 and July 24, 1908. The couple checked into Room 2 of the Highland House Hotel, which opened just a year earlier by Isaac Morton Small. New Hotel Built in 1907 In...
February 2024 50 Acres in Truro Written by Victor Morris, 1993 "I was born in North Truro, Jan 28, 1903. My grandfather, Joseph Morris, Sr., was born in Fayal, Azores. He and his brother Victor were orphaned early. Both were unhappy and 'ran away to sea'. They served...
January, 2024 Happy New Year from Snowie January, 1943 Horace Snow Jr., familiarly known as 'Snowie' was born in Truro in 1906. In 1939 Horace Sr. and Jr. were operating the Shell Station in Downtown Pamet at Wilder's Crossing, when Snowie began publishing his gossipy...
A Christmas Visit to Cape Cod in 1895 A recollection by Joseph Mayo Mansfield News, December 2008 “My mother and I left from Worcester by train the day before Christmas to spend the Holy Holiday with my grandparents [in Truro]. This was an exciting time...
Join us at the Highland House Museum on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 7 PM for a fascinating lecture about the History of Life Saving Stations from Provincetown to Chatham.
July 2 through September 30, 2016. Henry David Thoreau visited Cape Cod in 1849, 1850, and 1853. These trips formed the basis for a series of essays, several of which Thoreau published in magazines. After his death, the essays were gathered together and published as...