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The Best Attractions In Cape Ann

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Cape Ann is a rocky cape in northeastern Massachusetts, United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 30 miles northeast of Boston and marks the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann includes the city of Gloucester and the towns of Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport.
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  • 1. Good Harbor Beach Gloucester
    Good Morning Gloucester is a longstanding blog created by Gloucester, Massachusetts lobster broker Joey Ciaramitaro. GMG is a snapshot of living and working on the docks of the oldest commercial fishing harbor in the United States.
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  • 2. Wingaersheek Beach Gloucester
    Wingaersheek Beach is a 0.6-mile long beach located on the Annisquam River in West Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States.According to the USGS the name is a corruption of the earlier Dutch name Wyngaerts Hoeck, which was derived from Wyngaerton . The name was described by Professor Trumbull as not Indian but stated by Professor E. N. Horsford to be an undoubted corruption of the German name, Wyngaerts Hoeck, which occurs on many maps between 1630 and 1670, especially in Ogilby's America. The beach was alternatively called Coffins Beach for Peter Coffin whose farm was located alongside this beach.The popularity of Wingaersheek beach, as well as the nearby Good Harbor Beach has resulted in traffic jams in the area. Furthermore, since January 2015, a local law came into place that forbids ...
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  • 3. Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House Gloucester
    Beauport, also known as Sleeper–McCann House, Little Beauport, or Henry Davis Sleeper House, is a historic house in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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  • 4. Cape Ann Museum Gloucester
    Cape Ann Museum is located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Its collection focuses mainly on artists and artist colonies from the Cape Ann area of the state, and the history of Gloucester as a fishing and trading port.
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  • 5. Long Beach Gloucester
    The 1938 New England Hurricane was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to strike Long Island, New York and New England. The storm formed near the coast of Africa on September 9, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on Long Island on September 21. It is estimated that the hurricane killed 682 people, damaged or destroyed more than 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at $306 million . Damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas as late as 1951. It remains the most powerful and deadliest hurricane in recorded New England history, perhaps eclipsed in landfall intensity only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.
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  • 9. Plum Cove Beach Gloucester
    Prunus maritima, the beach plum, is a species of plum native to the East Coast of the United States, from Maine south to Maryland. Although sometimes listed as extending to New Brunswick, the species is not known from collections there, and does not appear in the most authoritative works on the flora of that Canadian province.Prunus maritima is a deciduous shrub, in its natural sand dune habitat growing 1–2 m high, although it can grow larger, up to 4 m tall, when cultivated in gardens. The leaves are alternate, elliptical, 3–7 cm long and 2–4 cm broad, with a sharply toothed margin. They are green on top and pale below, becoming showy red or orange in the autumn. The flowers are 1–1.5 cm in diameter, with five white petals and large yellow anthers. The fruit is an edible drupe 1.5...
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  • 10. Halibut Point State Park Rockport Massachusetts
    Halibut Point State Park and Halibut Point Reservation are parallel parcels of conserved, oceanside land located on Cape Ann in the town of Rockport, Massachusetts. Once the Babson Farm granite quarry, the properties are cooperatively managed by the Trustees of Reservations and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. The adjacent Sea Rocks area is owned by the town of Rockport and is also open to the public.
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  • 12. Singing Beach Manchester By The Sea
    Manchester-by-the-Sea is a town on Cape Ann, in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. The town is known for scenic beaches and vista points. At the 2010 census, the town population was 5,136.
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  • 14. Cogswell's Grant Essex Massachusetts
    Cogswell's Grant is a working farm and historic house museum in Essex, Massachusetts. It was the summer home of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, preeminent collectors of American decorative arts in the mid 20th century. Through her research and innumerable publications, Mrs. Little charted new areas of American folk art , such as decorative painting, floor coverings, boxes, and New England pottery. In 1937, the Littles purchased this farm, including its 18th-century farmhouse with views of the Essex River, as a family retreat and place to entertain. They named it Cogswell's Grant, after John Cogswell, who was the first English colonial owner of the property, which includes about 165 acres of land. They carefully restored the farmhouse, trying to preserve original 18th-century finishes ...
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