pm 011030 Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Essex County, Mass., 1886, Massachusetts – Historic Map Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Pm 011030 Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Essex County, Mass., 1886, Massachusetts comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Essex County, Mass., 1886
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pm 011030 Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Essex County, Mass., 1886, Massachusetts
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Pigeon Cove, a village in the town of Rockport on Massachusetts's Cape Ann, was in 1886 a center of the granite trade that had shaped its shoreline for decades. Quarries cut into the coastal ledges supplied stone for building and harbor work, and the men who worked them, many of them immigrant stonecutters from Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia, lived in close-set houses around the quarry edges. Fishing and boatbuilding ran alongside the quarries, and the summer visitors who came by rail and steamer were beginning to make the coast a resort as well as a workplace. Residents of the time would have known the village first by its granite and its harbor, and by the hard, dusty rhythm of quarry work that the town depended on.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | geo. h. walker & co |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,993 × 4,545 px · prints to 27 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Essex County, Mass., 1886 |
| Reference | pm011030 Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Essex County, Mass., 1886 |
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