Gloucester, Massachusetts

• Martin-Bittman captures the "16-30 club's" daily dialogues
  

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• Editorial: Concert success shows Gloucester potential for major music venue
  

  Disqus Editorial: Concert success shows Gloucester potential for major music venue Wed Sep 08, 2010, 09:34 PM EDT It had been at least 50 years since Gloucester's I-4, C-2 site came alive as it did Sunday night.

• Review: The Addison Gallery returns
  

  THE WEST WIND : Winslow Homer's 1891 oil is one of a trio of paintings by that artist that help make the Addison's American collection second only to the MFA's. Closed for two years of renovation and expansion, the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy reopened this past Tuesday with "Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison ...

• Editorial: City, lawmakers must press for more I-4, C-2 flexibility
  

  Disqus Editorial: City, lawmakers must press for more I-4, C-2 flexibility Tue Sep 07, 2010, 09:06 PM EDT The long-term future of Gloucester's most famous vacant lot may not be as the site of a marine aquarium and research center - or as a regular concert venue, despite Sunday night's glowing Celebrate Gloucester success.

• Fed dogfish, skate mandates shutter Gloucester's Zeus Packing - and 70-80 jobs
  

  Disqus Fed dogfish, skate mandates shutter Gloucester's Zeus Packing a ' and 70-80 jobs By Richard Gaines The Zeus Packing Co.

• Cruising into Gloucester: the MS Eurodam
  

  Courtesy photo The 2,104 passenger Eurodam will be anchoring near Dog Bar breakwater today and its passengers will be shuttled to downtown Gloucester and other locations.

• Cruising into Gloucester: the MS Eurodam
  

  Courtesy photo The 2,104 passenger Eurodam will be anchoring near Dog Bar breakwater today and its passengers will be shuttled to downtown Gloucester and other locations.

• Concert turns music spotlight on I-4, C-2
  

  Disqus Concert turns music spotlight on I-4, C-2 By Jonathan L'Ecuyer Close to 1,000 people turned out Sunday for the inaugural benefit "Celebrate Gloucester" concert, paying anywhere from $15 to $95 to take in the one-day festival on the city's newly-acquired I-4, C-2 site on the waterfront.

• My View: Don't miss the 'Truth' when it comes to city
  

  Disqus My View: Don't miss the 'Truth' when it comes to city My View Jim Munn Residents of Gloucester and the surrounding communities of Cape Ann who are interested in preserving an industry and way of life that dates to the Dorchester Bay Company's arrival here in 1623, should mark Monday, Sept.

• Georges Bank drilling faces Canadian questions
  

  Disqus Georges Bank drilling faces Canadian questions By Richard Gaines Although the Nova Scotia government has announced an extension of a ban on oil and gas drilling in the Canadian sector of Georges Bank, a cornucopia of fish and seafood that Canada shares with the United States, government leaders say that no bill has yet been drafted to give ...

• Enjoy a day trip to Stage Fort Park and beach in Gloucester, MA
  

  Gloucester, MA is the oldest fishing port in the U.S, and well worth a day trip.

• Gloucester Guster video gets big iTunes nod
  

  Disqus September 6, 2010 Gloucester Guster video gets big iTunes nod By Joann Mackenzie Staff Writer "I don't like it," said the president of Universal Music.

• Gloucester Guster video gets big iTunes nod
  

  Disqus Gloucester Guster video gets big iTunes nod By Joann Mackenzie "I don't like it," said the president of Universal Music.

• Coast Guard helicopter airlifts Mass. fisherman
  

  U.S. Coast Guard crews have used a helicopter to pick up a fisherman who became ill on a charter boat just east of Gloucester, Mass., and have taken him to a hospital.

• Sales-tax rollback question puts heat on Gov. Patrick
  

  Disqus Sales-tax rollback question puts heat on Gov. Patrick Staff and Wire Reports BOSTON - Gov.

• Aquarium for city's I-4, C-2 property?
  

  Evangeline King dances with her son, Athan, 20 months, as they listen to Inge Berge perform during Celebrate Gloucester yesterday.

• Rockport eyes adding 'CodeRed' communications
  

  Disqus Rockport eyes adding 'CodeRed' communications By Jonathan L'Ecuyer ROCKPORT - Rockport may soon become the third Cape Ann community to employ a "reverse 911" system to notify its residents of emergency situations via mass phone calls.

• Tracked Down: Rutina Wesley, Kim Raver, John Lackey and more...
  

  "True Blood" stars Joe Manganiello and Rutina Wesley , aka Alcide and Tara, meeting fans at Qdoba at Northeastern and throwing a bloody good vampire-themed bash at The Estate .

• Filling board post
  

  Residents interested in filling a vacancy on the Board of Selectmen will have until Sept.

City Description

Gloucester (pronounced /ˈɡlɒstər/ ( listen)) is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Massachusetts' North Shore. The population was 30,273 at the 2000 census. An important center of the fishing industry and a popular summer destination, Gloucester consists of an urban core on the north side of the harbor and the outlying neighborhoods of Annisquam, Bay View, Lanesville, Folly Cove, Magnolia, Riverdale, East Gloucester and West Gloucester. The boundaries of Gloucester originally included the town of Rockport, in an area dubbed "Sandy Bay." That village separated formally on February 27, 1840. In 1873, Gloucester was reincorporated as a city. Gloucester was founded at Cape Ann by an expedition called the "Dorchester Company" of men from Dorchester (in the county of Dorset, England) chartered by James I in 1623. This date allows Gloucester to boast the first settlement in what would become the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as this town's first settlement predates both Salem, Massachusetts in 1626, and Boston in 1630. This first company of pioneers made landing at Half Moon Beach, and settled nearby, setting up fishing stages in a field in

City Contained By:

• Essex County
• Massachusetts
• United States of America

City Contains:

• Oak Grove Cemetery
• Hammond Castle
• Our Lady of Good Voyage Church
• Puritan House
• William Haskell House
• Dyke-Wheeler House
• Edward Harraden House
• Gloucester Net and Twine Company
• Fitz Hugh Lane House
• Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial
• Ella Proctor Herrick House
• Front Street Block
• Gloucester City Hall
• Central Gloucester Historic District
• George O. Stacy House
• Norwood-Hyatt House
• Webster-Lane House
• Babson-Alling House
• Ten Pound Island Light
• White-Ellery House
• East Gloucester Square Historic District
• Davis-Freeman House
• Annisquam Bridge
• Whittemore House
• Beauport
• Eastern Point Light Station
• Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House
• Eastern Point Light
• Annisquam Harbor Light

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 107.484506579 km squared

Adjoining Cities:

• Rockport

City Featured in Films:

• The Proposal

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