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Bear Skin Neck Marker | | Motif #1 |
This marker stands near the Rockport town center at the enterance to a peninsula which juts out into Rockport Harbor.
The inscription on the marker reads: "Named from a bear caught by the tide and killed in 1700. Commercial and shipbuilding center of Rockport for 150 years. First dock built here 1734, Sandy Bay Pier Company organized 1809. Site of Stone Fort and Sea Fencibles Barrack during War of 1812."
Today, Bearskin Neck is one of the principal attractions in Rockport. Quaint little studios, shops, and restaurants line it's narrow roads. But Bearskin neck is probably best known as the home of one of the most photographed and painted buildings in the world, an old red fish house known as
"Motif #1".