Steamboats of Gloucester and the North Shore
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Steamboats of Gloucester and the North Shore
Author: John Lester Sutherland
Publisher: The History Press
Copyright: 2004
Pages: 160
Cover Price: $ 19.99
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This accessible history and memoir focuses on the various working vessels that plied the waters between
Boston and Gloucester during the glory days of
steam.
Background Information
Boston was founded by Puritans soon after their arrival at Massachusetts Bay and is the largest city in New England. Beginning in the very early nineteenth century, steamboats enabled transportation upriver, revolutionizing the nature of river commerce.