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Photographs of Cape Ann’s Dogtown | Famous Abandoned Settlement

Follow aimless paths and carved boulders to Cape Ann’s Dogtown — New England’s most famous abandoned settlement with a checkered past.

By Yankee Magazine|Apr 23 2015|

A person wearing an orange jacket hikes through a forest with two dogs. The ground is covered with fallen leaves, and the trees are bare.

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Photo Credit : Katherine Keenan

Photographer Sara Gray captures the remoteness, the quiet, the starkness of Dogtown — New England’s most famous abandoned settlement on Cape Ann, near Gloucester, Massachusetts. Despite a sketchy past, the 3,600-acre site is still an attraction for history devotees, nature lovers, and artists and writers, perhaps because of that remoteness. LEARN MORE: The Mystery of Dogtown | New England’s Most Famous Abandoned Settlement