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Rockport station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Rockport, Massachusetts.It is the terminus of the Rockport branch of the Newburyport/Rockport Line.The station complex consists of a single side platform with one revenue track plus 4 layover tracks for parked trains and a short stretch of auxiliary track.
Annisquam Harbor Light stands on the east, Cape Ann, side of the north entrance to the river. There are only three fixed crossings of the river: Massachusetts Route 128 , the Rockport Branch of the MBTA Newburyport/Rockport Line, and Western Avenue ( Massachusetts Route 127 ).
The 1755 Cape Ann earthquake took place off the coast of the British Province of Massachusetts Bay (present-day Massachusetts) on November 18. At between 6.0 and 6.3 on the Richter scale , it remains the largest earthquake in the history of Massachusetts.
Thacher Island is a small island off Cape Ann on the Massachusetts coast in the United States. It is a part of the Town of Rockport . It was a place where some naval confrontations, both minor and major, took place, which helped secure a victory for the colonists.
The Anadama bread center of consumption was in Rockport and next-door Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was commercially available from local bakeries widely on Cape Ann from the early 1900s until 1970, when the Anadama Bread Bakery on Pooles Lane in Rockport closed due to Bill Smith's death. For a number of years, it was baked by small local ...
In Nordic mythology, Jörmungandr (or Midgarðsormr) was a sea serpent or worm so long that it encircled the entire world, Midgard. [4] Sea serpents also appear frequently in later Scandinavian folklore, particularly in that of Norway, such as an account that in 1028 AD, Saint Olaf killed a sea serpent in Valldal in Norway, throwing its body onto the mountain Syltefjellet.
Ann United States: 28 January 1805 A brig that was drove ashore at Duxbury Beach in the Blizzard of 1805. "Loss of Brig Ann. A gentleman, arrived in town [Boston], last evening from Duxbury, informs, that the brig Ann, Capt. Lathrop, was drove on shore, at Duxbury Beach, on Monday night last, about 11 o'clock.
Route 127 is a 26.70-mile-long (42.97 km) north–south Massachusetts state route that runs from Beverly to Gloucester. Much of the northern part of the route is in Cape Ann. Route 127's southern terminus is at Route 1A and the southern terminus of Route 22 in Beverly and the northern terminus is at Route 128 in Gloucester.