Thank you to our 2019 Business Sponsors:

Thank you to our 2019 Business Sponsors:
Best Friends:
Fanizzi’s Restaurant
Truro Part-Time Resident Taxpayers’ Association (TPRTA)
Truro Vineyards of Cape Cod
Patrons:
Jobi Pottery
Kathleen Nagle, Kinlin Grover
Terra Luna Restaurant
Thomas D Brown, Real Estate Associates
Benefactors:
Ambrose Homes
Montano’s Restaurant
Noelle Scoullar Photography
SeasCape Realty
Friends:
Addison Art Gallery, B, Y & D Insurance
Blackfish Restaurant , Box Lunch
Cape Air, Cape Cod Oil
Captain’s Choice Restaurant, Cape Tip Seafood
Chequessett Chocolate, Cosmos Catering
Days Propane, Dune Crest Hotel
Hopper House Tours, Jam’s Market
Jules Besch Stationers, Kaplansky Insurance
Kyle Takakjian, Pilot, Lois Hirshberg Pottery
Longnook Meadow Farms, Long Point Electric
Marmara Imports, Napi’s Restaurant
Payomet Performing Arts, Ragg Time, LTD
Red Inn, Salty Market,Souza Fishing Corp,
Topside Cottages, Top Mast Resort,
West End Salon and Spa, Whitman House
Yardarm and Pamet Valley Liquors
Please patronize our wonderful business sponsors!

A joint project of the Truro Historical Commission and the Truro Historical Society, this guidebook was created to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower in Cape Cod Bay in 1620 and is an update of the 1984 guide that celebrated the 275th anniversary of the founding of Truro.

Click here to download the guidebook: Historic Truro Tours

This program was supported in part by a grant from the Truro Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Funding for printing was also provided by the Truro Chamber of Commerce, Truro Part-Time Resident Taxpayers’ Association, and Truro Vineyards of Cape Cod. Chuck Steinman, Editor and Graphic Design, Truro Historical Commission.

Our Support for Racial Justice

The Truro Historical Society (THS) supports the peaceful Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice that is taking place in the United States and around the world. “Liberty and justice for all” means justice for Black and Indigenous populations, and for all people of color.

Museums and archives are not neutral spaces. Because we interpret history, we have the responsibility of presenting the past as fully and accurately as possible, including painful and uncomfortable aspects. The past feeds into the present, and when a community actively engages with its past, it can use its understanding to make a better society.

Truro was founded on land that had been inhabited by Native People for thousands of years, but these people were displaced by English settlers. There were enslaved people and indentured laborers enduring near-slavery conditions in Truro. In 1754, the town’s first minister, Reverend John Avery, bequeathed to his children three African-American enslaved men and “my Indian Girl Sarah.”

After reflecting on the “settler privilege” that most of us enjoy, the THS decided in late 2019 to mark the 400^thanniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival with a decolonial exhibition celebrating Truro’s first inhabitants, the Wampanoag Nation, from its origins to today. During the postponement caused by the coronavirus, the THS will continue to consult with Indigenous scholars and community members. We will increase our commitment to diversity and inclusion. As a token of our commitment, the THS wishes to share the Land Acknowledgment we have prepared in consultation with members of the Wampanoag Nation. This statement will stand at the entrance to the Highland House Museum’s permanent exhibition about the Paomet and the Wampanoag peoples.

Land Acknowledgment

The Highland House Museum stands on the traditional homeland of the Paomet Tribe, members of the Wampanoag Nation, who have inhabited Cape Cod for more than 12,000 years and who knew this part of Truro as Tashmuit. The Truro Historical Society acknowledges the displacement, suffering, and forced assimilation of the Wampanoag and other Native Peoples caused by European contact and colonization. We honor the struggles of the Wampanoag, People of the First Light, and support their resilience, and we ask museum visitors to reflect on our shared responsibility to maintain social justice.

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