66-72 West Vine Street

 
Bayberry Hollow Farm (Remnant of Galeforce Farm)

There are few vestiges of old Provincetown more astonishing and evocative than the several acres of pastureland owned by Martha A. Roderick at the end of West Vine Street, where her parents — Joseph Alves (±1905-1963) and Irene (Raymond) Alves (±1906-1967) — ran the town’s last dairy farm. And in late summer, when loosestrife paints the land purple and the horse stabled there move slowly through the post-and-rail paddocks, there are few sights more romantic. With new housing all around the open acreage, however, it is hard to imagine how much longer this trace of farmland can remain so untouched.

† 48 Winslow Street

 
Holmes family farmhouse

Entry to be written. But Patty Crave Floyd recounts the story of her family’s farm in a comment below. George Holmes, who lived in this house, is the namesake of nearby George’s Path.