1900The Federal Construction Company set up a quarrying operation at Folly Point.Economy and Industry, Granite Industry, Local Businesses

“Helen and Robert Cheves on rocky shore”, c. 1905. Alexander R. Cheves, Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Photo 00191

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Erkkila, Barbara H. Village at Lane’s Cove. Ten Pound Island Book Co., 1989.

Other Events

1900
The Gloucester fishing schooner Ellen F. Gleason saved the captain and crew of the Nova Scotia schooner B.C. Borden.
1900
A new bridge was built over Lobster Cove.
1900
City Council ordered that Dogtown be registered in accordance with Chapter 562 of the acts of 1898.
1900
Artist John Twachtman (1853-1902) summered in Gloucester and organized an acclaimed art exhibition at Rockaway Hotel on Rocky Neck, where he lived that summer.

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