1850sMary Blood Mellen settled in Gloucester and became Fitz Henry Lane’s regular student.People and Communities, Arts and Culture, Notable People, Art

Mary Blood Mellen, Field Beach, Stage Fort Park, c. 1850, Oil on canvas, Collection of the Cape Ann Museum. Gift of Jean Stanley Dise, 1964, https://www.capeannmuseum.org/collections/artists/mary-blood-mellen/

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Mellen was a rare female painter of nineteenth-century maritime subjects.

Cape Ann Museum. “Works by Mary Blood Mellen.” https://www.capeannmuseum.org/collections/artists/mary-blood-mellen/

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1850 forward
TO BE A GLOUCESTERMAN - THE STORY OF EDWARD DAY COHOTA by Melville S. Brown
1850-1950
THE IRISH IN THE FORT by Anne Power Parsons
1851
The Walling map was drawn.
1851
The high school was built on Mason Street.

1850sMary Blood Mellen settled in Gloucester and became Fitz Henry Lane’s regular student.People and Communities, Arts and Culture, Notable People, Art

Other Events

TO BE A GLOUCESTERMAN - THE STORY OF EDWARD DAY COHOTA by Melville S. Brown

THE IRISH IN THE FORT by Anne Power Parsons

The Walling map was drawn.

The high school was built on Mason Street.