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Samuel de Champlain

Essex County · dedicated 1930 · Eastern Port Road and Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester · location approximate

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In September, 1606, Samuel de Champlain landed at Rocky Neck in what is now Gloucester Harbor, to caulk his shallop, and made an accurate chart of the harbor which he called Le Beauport.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

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

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