Lost Massachusetts

Lost Massachusetts Returns...to Cornhill in Truro on Cape Cod. This place represents a pivotal moment in the history of Massachusetts, the site of a lost village now surrounded by summer homes.

There had been encounters between natives of Massachusetts and Europeans for possibly hundreds of years. This was possibly the first time Europeans set foot in a Native American village. It is remembered as the moment Mayflower Pilgrims saved themselves from starvation by taking stored food from what is now known as Cornhill, what was a village of the Pamet people. The Pamet had relocated to their winter homes and were not there when the Pilgrims entered the village. Cornhill gets great ocean breezes in the summer but can be brutal at the time the Pilgrims arrived in November. The Nauset had good reason to be suspicious of the English but eventually became allies after the Pilgrims paid them for the stollen corn later. Find out more details in the second episode from season 2, including some possible information about the Nauset dogs.

"...and also found a place where a house had lately been, with some planks, and a great kettle and heaps of sand newly banked, under which they found several large baskets filled with corn, some in the ear of various colors..." -Bradford's History of Plymouth

The Buried Corn of the Nausets (fourstringfarm.com)

The Creation of the American Dog (archive.nytimes.com)

PRECONTACT (AMERICAN DOGS (in.gov)

Ancient Dogs of the Americas Were Wiped Out by European Colonization (livescience.com)

Nauset Indians (eastham-ma.gov)

A Brief and Ever Growing History of the Town of Truro Massachusetts (truro-ma.gov)

Corn Hill Beach (truro-ma.gov)

Get at Lost Massachusetts Postcard from a Lost Place

LostMass Podcast Reviews at Apple (podcasts.apple.com)

Photos at: instagram.com/lostmassachusetts

Sound Effects From Zapsplat (zapsplat.com)

Music Courtesy of Free Music Archive (freemusicarchive.org)