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Canaan, NH/Rockport, MA: Phoenix Publishing, for the Town History Committee, 1980. cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., only minute, minor bits of wear to dj, negligible impact by any measure, strong binding. no clips or chips. a very well preserved copy.; x-449pp., several color plates with b/w illustrations, photos throughout. an exhaustive town history of rockport, ma on cape ann from the earliest times. contains name rosters, other reference material.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Town on Sandy Bay: A History of Rockport, Massachusetts by Swan, Marshall W.S - 1980
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Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Small tear along top edge of front jacket panel. 1980 Hard Cover. x, 449 pp. Before the coming of the English explorers and colonists, Cape Ann was home to a number of Native American villages, inhabited by members of the Agawam tribe. Samuel de Champlain named the peninsula "Cap Aux Isles" in 1605, and his expedition may have landed there briefly. The first Europeans founded a permanent settlement at Gloucester in 1623. Richard Tarr, a granite cutter and the first settler of the Sandy Bay Colony, lived in the area that is now Rockport in 1680. He and his wife Elizabeth had ten children, those born after 1690 were recorded in the Sandy Bay Colony record books. Richard died around the year 1732.[3] The area provided timber for shipbuilding, especially pine, and granite was extracted from the Sandy Bay quarries. The Cape Ann area provided one of the richest fishing grounds in New England and in 1743 a dock was built at Rockport harbor on Sandy Bay and was used for both timber export and fishing. By the beginning of the 19th century, the first granite quarries were developed and, by the 1830s, Rockport granite was being shipped to cities and towns throughout the east coast of the United States. Rockport had consisted primarily of large estates, summer homes, and a small fishing village while Gloucester was becoming increasingly urbanized. Rockport was set off as a separate town in 1840 as its residents desired a separate enclave with an identity of its own, and was incorporated in 1840.[4] As the demand for its high-grade granite grew during the Industrial Revolution, the quarries of Rockport became a major source of the stone. A distinctive form of sloop was even developed to transport the granite to parts far and wide until the second decade of the 20th century. For many years, there was a large number of residents of Scandinavian descent, dating from the days when Finnish and Swedish immigrants with stone-working expertise made up a large part of the workforce at the quarries. Although the demand for granite decreased with the increased use of concrete in construction during the Great Depression, Rockport still thrived as an artists colonyâwhich began years earlier due in part to its popularity as a vacation spot known for its rocky, boulder-strewn ocean beaches, its history as a prominent fishing harbor, and its mentions in media like that of Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous. A red fishing shack on Bradley Wharf in Rockport, known popularly as "Motif Number 1", has for years been one of the most famous sites on Cape Ann as the subject of hundreds of paintings and photographs, and is visited by aspiring artists & tourists alike from all over the world. Rockport is the home of the Rockport Art Association.--Wikipedia
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- Publisher Phoenix Publishing
- Place of Publication Canaan, New Hampshire
- Date Published 1980
- Size 9x6x1
- Keywords AMERICAN HISTORY AMERICANA ROCKPORT MASSACHUSETTS
- X weight 37 oz
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