Bear Skin Neck

Bear Skin Neck is a Massachusetts historical marker in Rockport, Essex County, dedicated 1930.

Dock Square, Rockport · location approximate

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Named from a bear caught by the tide and killed in 1700. Commercial and shipbuilding center of Rockport for 150 years. First dock built here 1743, Sandy Bay Pier Company organized 1809. Site of stone fort and Sea Fencibles Barrack during War of 1812.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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Historical maps covering this location

1617 · New England (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1677 · A map of New England (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1846 · A map of New-England (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1890 · 43. Gloucester sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

43. Gloucester sheet, 1890, covering the location of Bear Skin Neck, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — 43. Gloucester sheet, 1890, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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