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NE Mass., N of Massachusetts Bay. It includes Gloucester and Rockport with their old fishing villages, resorts, and artists' colonies.

Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula located in northeastern Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean. The cape is located approximately 30 miles northeast of Boston and forms the northern edge of Massachusetts Bay. The towns of Gloucester, Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Rockport comprise Cape Ann.

Cape Ann appears for the first time on Captain John Smith's map of New England. The English colony at Cape Ann was first founded in 1624. It was the third colonizing effort in New England after Plymouth Colony and Nantasket Beach . Two ships of the Dorchester Company brought 32 in number with John Tylly and Thomas Gardner as overseers of the plantation and a fishing operation. This colony predated Massachusetts Bay charter and colony. For that reason members of the colony were referred to as "old planters".

By 1634 the name of Cape Ann was already established, as it is mentioned and depicted on maps in William Wood's New England's Prospect first published in that year.

External links

• ArtsGloucester
• Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (seARTS)
• Cape Ann Symphony Orchestra
• The Sargent House Museum
• Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce
• Cape Ann photos
• Cape Ann Events
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