1859An additional steamship service between Boston and Gloucester began.Government and Public Service, Transportation

Gloucester Harbor, c. 1880s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 006, Image No. MAH-3001, https://www.si.edu/object/gloucester-harbor%3Asiris_arc_387748

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Babson, John James, and Samuel Chandler. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Anne, Including the Town of Rockport. Gloucester [Mass.] Procter brothers, 1860, http://archive.org/details/historytownglou00changoog

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1859
Two high schools opened.
1859
The Rocky Neck Marine Railway began.
1860
Population: 10,904
1860
Babson's History of the Town of Gloucester was published.

1859An additional steamship service between Boston and Gloucester began.Government and Public Service, Transportation

Other Events

Two high schools opened.

The Rocky Neck Marine Railway began.

Population: 10,904

Babson's History of the Town of Gloucester was published.