First House

First House is a Massachusetts historical marker in Gloucester, Essex County, dedicated 1930.

Stage Fort Park, Gloucester · location approximate

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Site of first house, erected in 1623, taken down and rebuilt in Salem in 1628 as the "great house" of Governor Endecott.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.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)
1854 · Preliminary chart of Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts / From a trigonometrical survey… (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1890 · 43. Gloucester sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

New England, 1617, covering the location of First House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New England, 1617, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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

First House

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