1855 (ca.)The Board of Assessors was created.Government and Public Service, City Departments

Previously, the Board of Selectmen carried out this duty.

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

Other Events

1855
Oak Grove Cemetery was consecrated as a park and burial place.
1855
Harriet "Hattie" Johnson, of the prominent Black Freeman family, was born to Harriet and Horace Johnson.
1856
The Hatchet Gang temperance raid occurred in Rockport.
1857
Edward Day Cohota, a Sergeant in the 23rd Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War and Chinese immigrant, arrived in Gloucester.

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