Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 8, Page 43
Description:
Continuation of text from 'The Life Savers of Cape Cod' relating details of poorly equipped stations and passage of a bill by Congress in 1871 reorganizing the systems of life saving districts. It was in the winter of 1872 that several of the stations on the outer Cape were built and put into service.