CAMTalk: History Series — How Did Gloucester’s Fish Get to Market?

Description

Gloucester emerged as America’s foremost fishing port after the Civil War, but how did tons of its prime export get to market? Historians have written at length on the fishing industry’s exponential growth in the late 1800’s, but they offer scant details on how trains and steamships moved fresh and preserved fish from here to there.  

Join CAM Docent Paul Romary for an exploration of what archival resources tell us about this overlooked facet of Gloucester’s fishing saga. Learn about how archival resources at the Cape Ann Museum and other locations can be utilized to answer this, and other, questions.  

Paul’s investigations into Gloucester’s fishing history includes fact checking and curating the descriptions of nearly 200 fishing and maritime-related entries in the Gloucester 400+ digitized timeline located on the Sawyer Free Library website