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Ropewalk
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Essay to come.
Related tables: Hough, Benjamin Kent » // Pavilion Hotel » // Ropewalks »
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Taken from Fort Point looking west. Ropewalk just to west of hotel.
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // Pavilion (Publick) Beach » // Pavilion Hotel »
Lithograph
24 x 38 in.
Gloucester City Archives
"Drawn on a scale of one hundred feet to an inch. By John Mason 1834–45 from Actual Survey showing every Lott and building then standing on them giving the actual size of the buildings and width of the streets from the Canal to the head of the Harbour & part of Eastern point as farr as Smith's Cove and the Shore of the same with all the wharfs then in use. Gloucester Harbor 1834–1835."
This section of the map shows the location of the Pavilion Hotel and ropewalk along the beach.
Also filed under: Maps » // Mason, John » // Pavilion (Publick) Beach » // Pavilion Hotel » // Windmill »
Newsprint
D14-7
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
A short article entitled "The Cut," and signed "Little Fellow" describes the southwestern part of Gloucester and the beach between the Canal and the Old Fort.
Also filed under: Cut, The (Stacy Blvd.) » // Piper, John J. »
44 x 34 in.
Henry Francis Walling, Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Philadelphia, A. Kollner, 1851
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. H.F. Walling, Civil Engineer. John Hanson, Printer. 1851. Population of Gloucester in 1850 7,805. Population of Rockport in 1850 3,213."
Also filed under: Baptist Church (Old, First, 1830) (Pleasant Street) » // Burnham Brothers Marine Railway » // Duncan's Point » // Five Pound Island » // Flake Yard » // Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Harbor Methodist Church (Prospect Street) » // Low (Frederick G.) wharves » // Pavilion Hotel » // Procter Brothers » // Vincent's Cove » // Western Shore »
Series Maps. v. 13: p. 17
SC1 / series 48X
Massachusetts Archives, Boston
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Also filed under: Beacons / Monuments / Spindles » // Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Gloucester Harbor, Outer » // Gloucester, Mass. - "Ten Pound Island Light » // Gloucester, Mass. – Eastern Point Light » // Maps » // Mason, John » // Norman's Woe » // Pavilion (Publick) Beach »
Lithograph
24 x 38 in.
Gloucester City Archives
"Drawn on a scale of one hundred feet to an inch. By John Mason 1834–45 from Actual Survey showing every Lott and building then standing on them giving the actual size of the buildings and width of the streets from the Canal to the head of the Harbour & part of Eastern point as farr as Smith's Cove and the Shore of the same with all the wharfs then in use. Gloucester Harbor 1834–35."
This map shows the location of F. E. Low's wharf and the ropewalk. Duncan's Point, the site where Lane would eventually build his studio, is also marked.
The later notes on the map are believed to be by Mason.
Also filed under: Duncan's Point » // Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Low (Frederick G.) wharves » // Low, Capt. Frederick Gilman » // Maps » // Mason, John » // Residences » // Somes, Capt. John »
24 x 38 in.
Gloucester City Archives
"Drawn on a scale of one hundred feet to an inch. By John Mason 1834–45 from Actual Survey showing every Lott and building then standing on them giving the actual size of the buildings and width of the streets from the Canal to the head of the Harbour & part of Eastern point as farr as Smith's Cove and the Shore of the same with all the wharfs then in use. Gloucester Harbor 1834–35."
This map is especially helpful in showing the wharves of the inner harbor at the foot of Washington Street.
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Also filed under: Dale, Eben B. » // Eastern Railroad » // Flake Yard » // Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Hough, Benjamin Kent » // Maps » // Pavilion (Publick) Beach » // Sawyer, Samuel » // Town / Public Landings » // Universalist Church (Middle and Church Streets) »