1870The Hesperus Hotel in Magnolia was built.Arts and Culture, Location and Setting, Buildings & Architecture, Tourism

Hesperus House, Magnolia, c. 1870s. Erastus G. Rollins, Cape Ann Museum Libray & Archives, Photo 22473

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Sawyer Free Library, Pamphlets & Booklets Collection, "The Story of Kettle Cove", Alice Foster

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1870
The Cape Ann Granite Company provided an 18- by 7-foot slab of granite for the front steps of the Baptist Church on the corner of Pleasant and Warren Streets.
1870
The Boston and Gloucester Steamboat Company began running regularly.
1870
Professor, historian, and notable Gloucester resident, Alfred Mansfield Brooks was born.
1870
Local entrepreneur and philanthropist Samuel E. Sawyer purchased the clock and bell for the tower of the new Town Hall.

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