Gloucester
Gloucester names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Gloucester a city and port of entry of Essex co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and port of entry of Essex co., Mass., and Massachu setts Bay, near the extremity of Cape Ann, and on the Boston and Maine railroad; 32 miles N. E. of Boston. It is one of the most important fishing ports and fish markets in the world, having over 5,000 men engaged in the fisheries. Cod, haddock, halibut, herring, and mackerel are the principal catches. The Cape Ann granite quarries employ nearly 2,000 men, and supplied the granite for the postoffices at Boston and Baltimore and the East River bridge. The city is a popular summer resort, and has considerable historical interest. It was principally by settlers founded in 1623, from Gloucester, England, from which it received its name; was incorporated as a town in 1642; and became a city in 1874. It has the oldest Universalist Church in the United States, founded in 1770. There are the Sawyer Public Library, electric lights and street railroads, the Gilbert Hospital, Gilbert Home, Huntress Home for Aged Women, high school, daily and weekly newspapers, waterworks, and 2 National banks. Pop. (1910) 24,394; (1920) 22,947.
Gloucester a city and parliamentary borough
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and parliamentary borough, river port and ; county-seat of Gloucester co., England on the left bank of the Severn, here divided into two channels inclosing the Isle of Alney and crossed by two fine bridges, 95 miles N. W. of London. It carries on trade, the considerable shipping Gloucester and Berkeley canal giving aca cess to the docks. The most remarkable public edifice is the cathedral; it was originally the church of a Benedictine abbey, dating from 1058, and was contion. It exhibits a great variety of styles, the choir, with its roof of fan tracery being a fine example of Perpendicular Gothic. Other buildings are several handsome old churches, es, the shire hall, the guildhall, the bishop's palace, and county schools of art and science. The schools include the collegiate school founded by Henry VIII., the theological college, the blue-coat school founded in 1666, now known as Sir Thomas Rich's school, and the grammar school of St. Mary de Crypt, founded in the time of Henry VII. Pop. (1919) 50,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, Gloucester, Massachusetts had "over 5,000 men engaged in the fisheries" and quarries employing nearly 2,000; today the Cape Ann granite industry is gone and the groundfish fleet has shrunk to a few dozen boats under federal quotas imposed after the New England cod stocks collapsed in the early 1990s. The city now leans on tourism and its own legend — the loss of the swordfishing boat Andrea Gail in 1991 became the book and film The Perfect Storm — and its population, 22,947 in 1920, is close to 30,000. The English Gloucester has grown from the "50,000" of 1919 to roughly 130,000, its working docks converted to museums, flats and shops, though the cathedral described here still stands and its cloisters, with the fan tracery Collier's admired, were used as Hogwarts corridors in the Harry Potter films. Gloucester's oldest Universalist church, founded 1770, also survives.
Written for this edition, 2026.