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Gloucester (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / GLOST-ər) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore.The population was 29,729 at the 2020 U.S. Census. [2]
A Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English, native specifically to the city of Boston and its suburbs. Northeastern New England English is classified as traditionally including New Hampshire, Maine, and all of eastern Massachusetts, while some uniquely local vocabulary appears only around Boston.
The audio file giving the pronunciation for Gloucester's name has a clear British accent, and was probably generated for the Gloucester in England. That isn't the way the locals pronounce it, though. (I'd do it myself, but as I live several towns over I may not be authoritative.) -- Dan Griscom 12:36, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Eastern Massachusetts, with Cape Ann. Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula in northeastern Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Boston and marks the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann includes the city of Gloucester and the towns of Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport.
Gloucester Old Spot sow and piglets, an ancient English breed similar to the colonists' pigs. Massachusett speakers adopted English terms for pigs, which they used for meat. With the arrival of the English colonists, the Native Americans quickly began to adopt English in order to communicate and participate in wider society by necessity as the ...
Most of the land is held in trust by Gloucester and Rockport and is therefore protected in perpetuity. [6] [7] The current state of Dogtown affords rich recreation opportunities to hikers and bikers, dog-walkers, nature lovers, cross-country skiers, geologists and historians. The area is peppered with house-sized boulders, including one named ...
Location of Gloucester in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester, Massachusetts.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States.
The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the large, famous and heavily visited Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The recent history of Massachusetts' islands includes creation by flooding, connection to the mainland and subsumption into ...