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!!!Rockport, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts, some 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Boston, at the tip of the Cape Ann peninsula. 

First settled in the 17th century, the towns economy was long based on timber, fishing, and granite quarrying. Today it is a popular tourist site and artists colony.