Gloucester

Gloucester, a port of entry of Massachusetts, on the south side of Cape Ann peninsula, 28 miles NNE. of Boston, with which it is connected by rail, and with an excellent harbour. Its industries are chiefly connected with the cod and mackerel fisheries, which employ several thousand men; but it has also a large trade in the granite quarried here, and manufactures of anchors and railroad iron, besides the building of schooners and fishing-boats, and the import of salt, coal, and lumber from Europe and Canada. Gloucester was incorporated as a town in 1642, and made a city in 1874. Pop. (1880) 19,329; (1890) 24,651.