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We invite you to join in the restoration of this Gloucester, MA historic landmark.

Online donation system by ClickandPledgeIf only it's walls could talk, what tales they could tell. Thousands of fishermen have sailed by on their way to the Banks; many never to return.

It still stands there out on the point of Rocky Neck like an ancient castle wreathed in history. May it stand for another century.

-Gordon Thomas

Free Open House Tour at the Paint Manufactory and Art Exhibit -
Saturday October 25 from 10-3 and Sunday October 26 from 10-2, 2008. read more

In 1863, James G. Tarr and Augustus H. Wonson began manufacturing America’s first copper paint. The Tarr and Wonson Paint Manufactory played a vital role in international maritime history, as well as in the development of Gloucester, Massachusetts as a major fishing port.



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