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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|
Photo Credit: Sara Gray
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.
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This post was fist published in 2009 and has been updated.
“The Last Days of Dogtown” is a book that I thoroughly enjoyed. Read it several years ago, fictional account but a very absorbing story.