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History of Rockport, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Rockport, Massachusetts, USA

Visit Rockport, Massachusetts, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

Where is Rockport, Massachusetts, USA?

• 1623 - Rockport is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1840 - Rockport is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1845 - ROCKPORT. [Pop. 2,650. Inc. 1840.]
  Rockport was originally the eastern portion of Gloucester, containing the village of Sandy Bay.
  
  In this town is Cape Ann, one of the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Rockport
  Rockport, a post-village of Essex county, Massachusetts, 32 miles N. E. from Boston. It contains several churches, and a bank with a capital of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Gloucester and Rockport
  Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
  New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
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• Rockport Massachusetts, 1890
  Rockport forms the eastern extremity of Cape Ann and of Essex County, and is 35 miles from Boston by the Gloucester Branch of the Boston and Maine...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Rockport
  Rockport, a post-village of Essex co., Mass., in a small township of its own name, on the Atlantic Ocean, and on the Gloucester Branch of the Eastern ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Ocean View House, Pigeon Cove, Mass.
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  St. Joachim's Catholic Church, Rockport, Mass.
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  Cleaves Street, Rockport, Mass.
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• 1906
  Rockport, a banking post-village of Essex co., Mass., in Rockport township (town), on the Atlantic Ocean and on the Boston and Maine R., 36 miles NE. ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Dock Square, The Old Pool House and Entrance to Bearskin Neck, Rockport, Mass.
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  Post Office
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