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Introduction |
Commons Settlement and Dogtown |
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eGuide Dogtown offers visitors a self-guided tour of Dogtown's cultural and natural history, folklore, and literature. The app shows a user's location as he or she walks along the old roads and trails of Dogtown, along with numerous placemarks at key locations in Dogtown. Tapping a placemark provides information related to that location in Dogtown. In effect the app functions much like a trail guide or docent at a museum, without need of any other external device other than a smartphone. Other resources useful in exploring this part of Gloucester include the The Dogtown Common Trail Guide, and the book, The Dogtown Guide. The Cellars Speak describes the early settlement that later become Dogtown in greater detail. |
Quarries, Boulders, and Reservoirs |
![]() "to a certain extent some part of every city, some phase of every industry, and some branch of every family is experiencing the same four periods of improvement, prosperity, decline and depression, as have occurred in this village of Dogtown. Furthermore, every community and industry is now in one of these four periods and some day may experience all of the other periods." Cape Ann quarries operated for more than a century beginning in the early 1800s, but they too declined for economic reasons as asphalt and concrete began to replace granite for roads and buildings.
The Island Woods describes how Dogtown, the quarries, and reservoirs are connected in space and time, exploring these connections with maps, satellite imagery, and historical photographs. |
Poles Hill |
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Links |
Essex County Greenbelt Association Report observations of plants and animals in Dogtown Report problems that you encounter in Dogtown |
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