18 Facts About Provincetown

The Provincetown Players was an important experimental theatre company formed during this period.

Today more than 200 businesses belong to the PBG and Provincetown is perhaps the best-known gay summer resort on the East Coast.

The 2010 US Census revealed Provincetown to have the highest rate of same-sex couples in the country, at 163.

Provincetown is located at the very tip of Cape Cod, encompassing a total area of 17.

Provincetown is bordered to the east by its only neighbor, the town of Truro, and by Provincetown Harbor to the southeast, Cape Cod Bay to the south and west, Massachusetts Bay to the northwest and north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast.

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Provincetown is 45 miles east by southeast from Boston by air or sea, and 115 miles by road.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum is a nationally recognized, year-round cultural institution that celebrated its Centennial in 2014.

Atlantic House in Provincetown is considered the oldest gay bar in the US and Frommer's calls it "the nation's premier gay bar".

Provincetown is the setting for the annual Women's Week festival.

Since 1975, Provincetown has been the host city to Fantasia Fair, the world's first and longest-running annual conference that focuses on gender diversity and transgender issues.

Provincetown is governed, like most New England towns, by the Open town meeting form of government.

Provincetown is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable District, which includes all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

Provincetown is patrolled by its own Police Department as well as the Second Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police.

Provincetown is governed by the open town meeting form of government and is led by a town manager and a board of selectmen.

The Provincetown Public Library is a member of the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing library network and is located on Commercial Street, in the former Center Methodist Episcopal Church building since 2005.

Provincetown is the eastern terminus of U S Route 6, both in the state and in the nation.

Provincetown is served by two seasonal ferries to Boston and one to Plymouth.

Provincetown is at one end of the scenic "Bike Route 1" from Boston called the Claire Saltonstall Bikeway.