Gloucester, Massachusetts
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| Foundation : | 1623 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Massachusetts | ||
| County : | Essex County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 37 ′ N , 70 ° 41 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 28,789 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 428.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 107.5 km 2 (approx. 42 mi 2 ) of which 67.2 km 2 (approx. 26 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 15 m | ||
| Postal code : | 01930 | ||
| Area code : | +1 351,978 | ||
| FIPS : | 25-26150 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0615084 | ||
| Website : | gloucester-ma.gov | ||
| Mayor : | Sefatia Romeo counters | ||
Gloucester is a city in Essex County in the US state of Massachusetts . The city is an important center of the fishing industry and a popular summer destination. The city center lies along the north side of the harbor, around which the districts of Annisquam, Bay View, Lanesville, Folly Cove, Magnolia, Riverdale, East Gloucester and West Gloucester are grouped.
history
Gloucester was settled in 1623 and incorporated into the state of Massachusetts in 1642.
Gloucester originally included the small town of Rockport north of Gloucester on Cape Ann, in an area known as Sandy Bay. Rockport formally split off on February 27, 1840. In 1873 Gloucester was granted town charter.
The place is considered the origin of a special type of sailing ship, the gaff schooner .
In October 1991, a rare combination of various meteorological factors created an unusually strong storm off the New England coast . This went down in the history of the region as the “storm of the century” . In this storm a fishing boat from Gloucester, the Andrea Gail , tried to get back to the home port, but sank. The event inspired Sebastian Junge to write his book The Perfect Storm . This book is the basis for Wolfgang Petersen's film Der Sturm from 2000.
In the early summer of 2008, Gloucester attracted attention with an alleged "pregnancy pact". According to the media, a group of schoolgirls had made a pact to get pregnant together in order to raise their children together. A total of 17 young women, all under 16 years of age, were expecting a child, while otherwise an average of four pregnancies per year were known. The film 17 Girls , released in 2011, and The Pregnancy Pact , released a year earlier, are based on this event . The "Pregnancy Pact", however, is a media invention. One of the pregnant students said on Good Morning America, "There was definitely no pregnancy pact. What there was was a group of already pregnant students who decided to help each other graduate from high school and the kids raise together. "
literature
The poet Charles Olson wrote his main work on Gloucester, the Maximus Poems (1950–1969).
The novel, Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling , winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature , depicts the life of cod fishermen at the end of the 19th century, and is set in part in Gloucester.
sons and daughters of the town
- Benjamin Anastas (* 1969), writer
- Roger Babson (1875–1967), statistician, economic and stock market forecaster and author
- Edward D. Easton (1856–1915), pioneer of the phonographic industry
- Fitz Hugh Lane (1804–1865), painter and lithographer
- Shawn Milne (* 1981), racing cyclist
- Herb Pomeroy (1930-2007), jazz trumpeter
- Jessie Ralph (1864–1944), actress
- Judith Sargent (1751–1820), author and suffragette
- Benjamin A. Smith (1916–1991), politician
- Samuel Paul Welles (1907–1997), paleontologist
- Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886), writer
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 17 girls pregnant at the same time - The pregnancy pact on Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 20, 2008
- ↑ Amy Benfer: What's so wrong with a pregnancy pact? In: Salon.com . June 27, 2008, accessed July 30, 2013.