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42-474: In addition to its home city, the paper also covers adjacent towns on Cape Ann in Essex County : Essex , Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport . Its circulation in 2012 was approximately 10,000, giving it some 22,000 readers each day. Gloucester Daily Times began as an independent daily in 1888. However, in the 21st century the paper has the centerpiece of a consolidation effort that once saw almost all

84-501: A chapel , a storehouse , a cooperage , and a guardhouse . The plan for Fort St. George shows nine guns that ranged in size from demi-culverin to falcon . The plan was drafted when work on the site was just beginning, so it is unclear how much was actually built. As a result of espionage, Hunt's map was sold to the Spanish ambassador to London, Pedro de Zúñiga. The map then passed to King Philip III of Spain , in 1608. In 1888 it

126-588: A 400-year shipbuilding legacy in the Bath, Maine area. In May 1608 a supply ship brought a message that Sir John Popham had died. The supply ship returned to England with a cargo. When Mary and John returned in September 1608, it brought news that Gilbert's elder brother John had died. Gilbert thus inherited the title and the estate of Compton Castle in Devon . He decided to return to England and as no other leader

168-627: A powerful three-day storm en route which was thought to have been a hurricane and which wrecked the mission's large new flagship Sea Venture on Bermuda . The exact site of the Popham Colony was lost until 1888 when a plan for the site was found in the Non Weaving loyal of all Archives in Simancas , Spain. This plan exactly matches the location at Sabino Head near Maine's Popham Beach State Park . Later archaeology in 1994 confirmed

210-541: A sailor and his negative feelings towards both Cape Ann and the sailors who sail around it. It has been recorded by musicians such as The Irish Rovers , Gordon Bok , and The X-Seaman's Institute (formed as part of the South Street Seaport ). Cape Ann is the location of the fictional town of Sea Harbor, the setting of the Seaside Knitters mysteries by author Sally Goldenbaum. Sea Harbor is on

252-479: A tongue in cheek salute to the paper and how it covers everything from "who knows all the town meeting rules?" to "whose dog had puppies" to "who can dig for clams this year?" 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

294-567: A woman whom he met while in Turkey as a prisoner of war. He had been taken as a prisoner of war and enslaved in the Ottoman Empire before escaping. Smith presented his map to Charles I and suggested that Charles should feel free to change any of the "barbarous names" into English ones. The king made many such changes, but only four survive today. One was Cape Ann, which Charles named in honor of his mother Anne of Denmark . Prior to

336-598: Is privately owned. The first excavations of the area in the 1960s were unsuccessful. In 1994, Jeffrey Brain of the Peabody Essex Museum confirmed the site of the colony using Hunt's plan as a guide, and confirmed the accuracy of the plan. He began a larger excavation in 1997 and later uncovered the Admiral's house, the storehouse and a liquor storage building. He also proved that Hunt's map was very accurate for those buildings which were actually built. Parts of

378-653: The North Shore papers bought by one owner, CNHI. Essex County Newspapers was founded by Philip Saltonstall Weld , a former International Herald Tribune publisher who bought newspapers in Gloucester and Newburyport in 1952, later adding the Beverly and Peabody titles. Weld was among the first small-daily publishers to endorse political candidates, and in 1958 the Gloucester Daily Times became

420-664: The Sagadahoc Colony —was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America . It was established in 1607 by the proprietary Plymouth Company and was located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine , near the mouth of the Kennebec River . It was founded a few months after its more successful rival, the colony at Jamestown . The Popham Colony was the second colony in the region that would eventually become known as New England . The first colony

462-595: The United States from New York to San Francisco . Cape Ann became a thriving center of activity for artists in the 19th century, including the Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester. Fitz Henry Lane who began his career in Gloucester as a lithographer developed a distinctive style for his marine paintings known as luminism . The Cape Ann Museum has a significant collection of paintings by local artists who reached national prominence. Later in

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504-409: The patron saint of England , was built on the headland of an area named Sabino, ten miles (16 km) south of what is now Bath, Maine , in the town of Phippsburg . On October 8, 1607, colonist John Hunt drew a plan of the colony. Hunt was listed in the colony register as "draughtsman" . His map showed a star-shaped fort with ditches and ramparts, and 18 buildings including the admiral 's house,

546-546: The 19th and early 20th century, American Impressionists were attracted to Rockport such as marine landscapist Harry Aiken Vincent who arrived in 1916 and helped to form the Rockport Art Association . The region continues to provide a base for many galleries and working artists. The entirety of Cape Ann lies within Essex County . Anchored by the city of Gloucester , the nexus of the local fishing industry , other towns on Cape Ann include Rockport , at

588-535: The Cape Ann settlement a legal form of government was established, and from that Massachusetts Bay Colony sprang. Roger Conant was the governor under the Cape Ann patent, and as such, has been called the first governor of Massachusetts. This colony predated Massachusetts Bay charter and colony. For that reason, members of the colony were referred to as " old planters ". The first Great House in New England

630-801: The North Shore chain in 2002, paying US$ 70 million for the Gloucester Daily Times , The Daily News of Newburyport and The Salem Evening News . Eagle-Tribune executives touted the creation of a regional news organization; they also laid off some 45 staffers at the Essex County papers, including the editors of the Newburyport and Salem papers. The Eagle-Tribune chain was itself bought for an undisclosed amount of money by Community Newspaper Holdings , an Alabama company, in 2005. Local folk duo Daisy Nell and Captain Stan recorded "G.D. Times",

672-578: The Popham Colony site). In 1905 the U.S. Army built Fort Baldwin on Sabino Head just west of the site, but parts of the site were used for transport and storage. The state of Maine bought some of the area in 1924. Fort Baldwin was reactivated during World War II . After the war, Fort Baldwin was returned to the state of Maine and is now part of the Fort Baldwin State Historic Site. Much of the Popham Colony Site

714-603: The abandoned site in 1611. In 1624, Samuel Maverick also visited the site and reported that it was "overgrown" but garden herbs could still be seen. In the 18th century the site was divided into farmland and several houses were built on the site. During the American Civil War , the Union army built Fort Popham in the area, directly on the Kennebec River at the mouth of Atkins Bay (about 500 meters east of

756-547: The arrival of European settlers, Cape Ann was a home for indigenous people. The English colony at Cape Ann was first founded in 1623. It was the fourth colonizing effort in New England after Popham Colony , Plymouth Colony and Nantasket Beach . Two ships of the Dorchester Company brought 32 in number with John Tylly and Thomas Gardner as overseers of a fishing operation and the plantation, respectively. At

798-707: The book Trouble . Cape Ann is the title of the fifth and final section of T. S. Eliot's poem, "Landscapes," which lists the coastal birds of the region. Additionally, the title of his poem The Dry Salvages refers to a cluster of rocks "off the N.E. coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts." The fictional town of Paradise, setting of the Jesse Stone novels, is near Cape Ann, which is briefly mentioned in Night and Day . Popham Colony 43°45′12″N 69°47′18″W  /  43.7532°N 69.7884°W  / 43.7532; -69.7884 The Popham Colony —also known as

840-457: The city of Gloucester and the towns of Essex , Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport . During the summer of 1606, French explorer Samuel de Champlain visited Cape Ann for the second time. He came ashore in Gloucester and drew a map of the Gloucester harbor, naming it as le Beau port. Eight years later, English Captain John Smith named the area around Gloucester Cape Tragabigzanda , after

882-620: The coast, with Gloucester as its nearest neighbor town. Cape Ann is also featured as the setting for the Harry Chapin song "Dogtown," which is also the name for an abandoned town on the Cape. The fictional "Gloucester Island" in 1966 Cold War comedy film The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming is located off Cape Ann and was named for the city of Gloucester. The book Slaughterhouse Five mentions Cape Ann as

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924-469: The colony at the age of 25. The colonists completed one major project: the building of a 30-ton ship, a pinnace they named Virginia . It was the first English ocean-going ship built in the Americas. The primary purpose of Virginia was for use in exploration of the area, but was later refitted and some of the colonists returned to England in it when the colony was abandoned. This was the beginning of

966-605: The colony failed to establish cooperation with the tribe. Late summer arrival meant that there was no time to farm for food. With inadequate supplies, half of the colonists returned to England in December 1607 aboard the Gift of God and almost starved on the return trip and had to sell their cargo in the Azores . Others faced a cold winter during which the Kennebec River froze. Historical records indicate that fire destroyed parts of

1008-625: The colony is the main contemporary source of the information about the Popham Colony. (It was called "Popham" after its principal financial backer, Sir John Popham .) The diary is kept in Lambeth Museum in London. James Davis was later made captain of the ship built by the colonists, Virginia , which made at least two voyages across the Atlantic. Robert and James were most likely from a family of mariners from Devon, England. Sir John Popham

1050-503: The death of Sir John Popham, the inability to find another leader, the cold winter, and finally the hostility of both the native people and the French. Sir Francis Popham (son of Sir John) tried several times to reestablish the colony, but was unable to get the financial backing. The settlement of New England was delayed until it was taken up by refugees instead of adventurers. French colonist Jean de Biencourt with Father Pierre Biard visited

1092-526: The expedition, while the rest were soldiers, artisans, farmers and traders. In August they arrived at Pemaquid, returning a native, Skidwarres, who had been captured by George Weymouth in 1605. The Gift of God arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River (then called the Sagadahoc River) on August 13, 1607. The Mary and John arrived three days later. They quickly began construction of large star-shaped Fort St. George. Fort St. George, named for

1134-600: The first afternoon daily to print its Saturday edition in the morning, to put its pressmen on a five-day workweek. By the 1980s, the chain was owned by Ottaway Community Newspapers , a division of Dow Jones & Company , which also owned the Cape Cod Times and The Standard-Times of New Bedford . Ottaway added The Salem Evening News to its holdings, closing the evening Beverly Times and Peabody Times , in 1995. The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover , one of Essex County Newspapers' chief competitors, bought

1176-567: The first company that proved "strong enough" to colonize it. The first Plymouth Company ship, Richard , sailed in August 1606, but the Spanish intercepted and captured it near Florida in November. The next attempt was more successful. About 120 colonists (all men and boys) left Plymouth on May 31, 1607, in two ships. They intended to trade precious metals , spices , furs , and show that

1218-615: The honeymoon location for the main character Billy Pilgrim . The movie The Perfect Storm was filmed in Gloucester in 2000. Setting out for the one last catch that will make up for a lackluster fishing season, Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney) pushes his boat, the Andrea Gail , out to the waters of the Flemish Cap off Nova Scotia; based on actual events in 1991. Cape Ann is also the location of main character's home in

1260-425: The local forests could be used to build English ships. George Popham was president of the colony and captain of Gift of God . Raleigh Gilbert—son of Sir Humphrey —was admiral (second in command) of the colony and captain of Mary and John . Neither of these men was a mariner and the ship's officers of Mary and John were Robert Davies and James Davis . The ship's log and diary from the voyage and first 6 weeks of

1302-628: The location and the accuracy of the plan. The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Popham was a project of the Plymouth Company, which was one of the two competing parts of the proprietary Virginia Company that King James chartered in 1606 to raise private funds from investors in order to settle Virginia . At the time, the name "Virginia" applied to the entire east coast of North America from Spanish Florida to New France in modern-day Canada . That area

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1344-597: The plan. No stonework was found, but many of the defenses are based on the natural geography. Popham and Gilbert sent survey expeditions up the river and west across Casco Bay and contacted the Abenaki , an Indian tribe belonging to the Algonquian peoples of northeastern North America . In a letter to the King , Popham wrote that the natives had told them that the area was full of easily exploitable resources. However,

1386-464: The storehouse and its provisions, but archaeological excavations indicate that other buildings were burned and not the storehouse. George Popham died on February 5, 1608. He is the only colonist known to have died (in contrast to Jamestown which lost half its population that year) although the Abenaki claimed that they killed eleven colonists and set fire to the site. Raleigh Gilbert became president of

1428-584: The tip of the cape, and the towns of Essex and Manchester-by-the-Sea , which are located where Cape Ann joins the mainland. At the end of Cape Ann, and splitting Gloucester into two parts, is the Annisquam River . Many locals who live in Gloucester and Rockport refer to the land east of the Annisquam as "The Island". Cape Ann is the subject of the folk song 'Cape Ann', which may have been written by Maine-based folk singer Gordon Bok . It describes

1470-559: Was St. Croix Island , near what is now the town of Calais . (St. Croix Island was settled initially in June 1604, then moved in 1605 by Samuel de Champlain to the Bay of Fundy ). Popham was abandoned after only 14 months, apparently more due to the death of patrons and the first colony president than lack of success in the New World. The loss of life of the colonists in 1607 and 1608 at Popham

1512-686: Was built on Cape Ann by the planters. This house was dismantled on the orders of John Endecott in 1628 and moved to Salem to serve as his "governor's" house. When Higginson arrived in Salem, he wrote that "we found a faire house newly built for the Governor" which was remarkable for being two stories high. By 1634 the name of Cape Ann was already established, as it is mentioned and depicted on maps in William Wood's New England's Prospect first published in that year. On November 18, 1755, Cape Ann

1554-436: Was discovered in the Spanish national archives. Fort St. George was abandoned after 14 months of occupation. Most of the site is privately owned, but part of it is within the Fort Baldwin State Historic Site. Between 1994 and 2013 a number of archaeological explorations were done at the site. Archaeological excavations show some but not all of the buildings in the plan, and shallow ditches where defensive trenches are shown on

1596-653: Was far lower than that experienced at Jamestown. The first ocean-going ship built by the English in the New World was completed during the year of the Popham Colony and was sailed back across the Atlantic Ocean to England. The pinnace , named Virginia of Sagadahoc , was apparently quite seaworthy, and crossed the Atlantic again successfully in 1609 as part of Sir Christopher Newport 's nine-vessel Third Supply mission to Jamestown. The small Virginia survived

1638-587: Was found, the colony decided to disband and the remaining colonists sailed home in Mary and John and Virginia . (The Virginia would make at least one more Atlantic crossing, going to Jamestown the next year with the Third Supply , piloted by Captain James Davis .) The colony lasted just 14 months. It is likely that the failure of the colony was due to multiple problems: the lack of financial support after

1680-406: Was technically under the claim of the Spanish crown, but was not occupied by the Spanish. The Plymouth Company was granted a royal charter and the rights to the coast between 38° and 45° N; the rival London Company was granted the coast between 34° and 41° N. The colonists were to plant first within their respective non-overlapping areas; the overlapping area between 38° and 41° would then go to

1722-646: Was the Lord Chief Justice of England, while Gilbert was the son of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and half-nephew of Sir Walter Raleigh . Other financiers included Sir Ferdinando Gorges , the military governor of Plymouth. Much of the information about the events in the colony comes from his letters and memoirs. Settlers included the Reverend Richard Seymour, grandson of Sir Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and brother to Queen Jane Seymour . Nine council members and six other gentlemen accompanied

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1764-506: Was the land nearest the offshore epicenter of an earthquake , which is extremely rare for Massachusetts. There were no seismographs at that time; but, based on available data, the tremor was estimated at magnitude 6.5. It caused serious damage in the Boston area, but no casualties. By the mid-1800s, Cape Ann was known for its specialization in granite production, specifically in creating paving blocks for roads and streets and were used across

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