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Guerrant House, also known as Pilot House, is a historic home located at Pilot, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built in the mid- to late-19th century, and is a two-story frame double-pile center-passage dwelling with a hipped roof and two massive brick chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing meat house and spring house. [3]
The schooner Alabama was one of the last vessels built from the design of one of the most notable designers of Gloucester fishing schooners, Thomas F. McManus. Commissioned by the Mobile Bar Pilot Association of Mobile, Alabama, the vessel was built in Pensacola, Florida, launched in 1926, and originally called Alabamian until her predecessor, the Bar Pilot Association's original Alabama, was ...
Pilot Boat No. 3, D. J. Lawlor, lost in 1895 collision. On January 4, 1895, during a heavy mist, the Boston pilot-boat D. J. Lawlor, No. 3, was struck and sank off Minot's Ledge Light by the Gloucester fishing schooner Horace B. Parker. Four of the crew perished. Rudolph Harrison, the steward, was the only one that survived.
The home continues to be owned by the original family, and is suspected to be the oldest continual ownership of a house in Gloucester County, Virginia. The family has owned this and other land tracts and estates on the North River dating back to the early 1600s. Burgh Westra was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The Davis-Freeman House is a historic house in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA. Built in the early 17th century, it is a rare local example of a plank-framed house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1] It presently [when?] is the Executive offices and Education Center for Wellspring House, Inc.
The race between pilot-boat Hesper and fishing schooner Fredonia off Boston Harbor. In May 1886, McManus and John Malcolm Forbes sponsored a race between the pilot-boat Hesper and the fishing schooner John H. McManus. The race was from Boston to Gloucester, rounding the buoy off Eastern Point Light. Eleven fishing schooners took part in the ...
Mar. 10—For a man who didn't think he would live past the age of 19, Gloucester's Michael Linquata lived another 77 years. The World War II veteran and former prisoner of war died Sunday at the ...
The mid-18th century (1740) Babson-Alling House is one of two early dwellings that remain at Gloucester's original town center. Once known as the Green, the central position of this inland area was usurped in 1738 when the First Parish Meetinghouse was moved eastward to the Inner Harbor where it remains (see Central Gloucester Historic District, and Boundary Increase).