The story
The Jenny Lind Tower stands castle-lonely on the outer Cape moors at North Truro, Massachusetts — a granite turret that began life crowning Boston's Fitchburg Railroad depot, where in 1850 Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale' of Barnum's famous tour, sang; tradition tells she sang from the tower itself to calm an overflow crowd, the story that named it. When the depot fell in 1927, attorney Harry Aldrich bought this tower and re-erected it on his Truro land in her honour — one of New England's most romantic acts of architectural salvage — and the moors around it later passed into the Highlands' federal landscape beside the old air station, leaving the tower fenced from casual approach: viewing means public vantage points, no climbing, stated plainly. Cape telling supplies the ghost: a woman's singing on the dusk wind about the tower, a figure at its parapet, lights in the arrow slits — folklore woven from the naming story, undocumented and lovely. Present the tower as salvage-romance first, its nightingale voice the Cape's gentlest legend.