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History of Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1623 - Gloucester is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1642 - Gloucester is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
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  The Universalist Church, Built 1806
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• 1817 - August 18 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
  
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• 1839 - December 15 - The first of triple storms hit Massachusetts Bay. The storm produced whole gales, and more than 20 inches of snow in interior New England. There was great loss of life at Gloucester MA.
  
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• 1845 - GLOUCESTER. [Pop. 6,350. Inc. 1642.]
  Gloucester was named after Gloucester in England, from which some of the first settlers came. It was settled by persons from Plymouth Colony...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Gloucester
  Gloucester, a port of entry of Essex co., Massachusetts, 28 miles N. N. E. from Boston, is situated on the S. side of the peninsula of Cape Ann, and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859
  GLOUCESTER, a town and port in Essex co., in Massachusetts, 30 m. NE of Boston. It has a fine harbour on the S side of the peninsula. Pop. 6,350.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
•  1869 - A well-known physician who had an extensive practice in Gloucester, (Mass.,) some forty years since,
  used to say that roast beef, serenity of mind, cold water bath, and an amiable and pretty wife would make almost any man healthy, wealthy and wise.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  October 30, 1869
  
  
• 1873 - Gloucester is incorporated as a city
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
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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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•  1885 - At Gloucester - An Incendiary Caught.
  GLOUCESTER, Mass., Oct. 12 - A stable on Pine street belonging to Bennett Griffin & Son, lumber dealers, was destroyed by fire at half past three...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1889 - Schooner Wreck
  GLOUCESTER, Mass., Jan. 11. - The schooner wrecked on Bass Rocks was the forty ton Juliette, of Belfast, Me., from Rockland, Me., with lime ashes for ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Gloucester Massachusetts, 1890
  GLOUCESTER, long celebrated as a fishing-port, occupies the larger part of Cape Ann, the easterly extremity of Essex County, and is about 30 miles...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Main Street
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• 1895 - Gloucester
  Gloucester, a city and port of entry of Essex co., Mass., 28 miles N.N. E. of Boston, is situated on the S. side of the peninsula of Cape Ann, and is ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Fisherman's Memorial
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  View of Gloucester, Mass.
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  Pavilion Beach, 1905
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  The Depot
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  Main Street, 1906
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  The Surfside
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  Drying Fish, 1907
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  Good Harbor Beach Inn and Cottage, Briar Neck
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  Post Office and Custom House
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  Cottages at Bass Rocks
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  Hawthorne Inn, East Gloucester, Mass.
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  City Hall
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  High School
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  Rocky Neck
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•  1910 - Gloucester Buildings Prey of Forest Fires
  Boston Journal Special Wire.
  Gloucester, March 25. - Grass and forest fires kept the local fire department busy most of the day. A barn on the Hovey ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Our Lady of Good Voyage Church
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  Pleasant Street, Gloucester, Mass.
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  Old Ellery House
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  Half Moon Beach
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  Annisquam, Mass., Squam Light
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  Eastern Point Light from Breakwater
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• 1916
  Gloucester, a city and port of entry of Essex co., Mass., 28 miles NNE. of Boston, is beautifully situated on the 8. side of the peninsula of Cape...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Blynman Bridge
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  Legion Memorial Building and Joan of Arc Statue
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  Old Wheeler House, Wheeler Point
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  Shore Road, Stage Fort Park
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• 1925 - Frozen dinners were invented in Gloucester
  The concept may seem obvious today, but Clarence Birdseye was the first to introduce mass-produced frozen meals in 1925.
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  The Sargent, Murray Gilman House
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  The Colonial Arms, Eastern Point
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  The Tavern
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  Town Landing
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  Cressey Beach at Stage Fort Park
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  Stacey Blvd. and Fisherman's Monument
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  Boulevard Sweet Shop, Western Avenue
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