In the state of Massachusetts ... resources for the settlement, Dogtown offered very little in the way of farming. Plus, its proximity to the coastal city of Gloucester meant that new roads ...

That's how the painter Marsden Hartley felt about the part of Gloucester once known (until its old inland settlement effectively vanished) as the Commons. It was Hartley's eerily vivid Dogtown ...

In the woods at the heart of Gloucester lies a ghost town, the remnants of an abandoned English colonial settlement today known as Dogtown ... Babson was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

GLOUCESTER — A handwritten sign posted Sunday on a utility pole along Washington Street, one of the main gateways to downtown Gloucester, carried the message, "Let sleeping Dogtown lie." ...

With funding in place from Awesome Gloucester, Carlotto settled into his work. He describes the process as spending “hundreds of hours” using a GPS to map Dogtown in addition to the actual pro ...