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Northshore October 2025
1798 until the 1920s, Cape Ann’s great granite industry boomed, as early inhabitants of the area cut massive columns of stone from the peninsula’s 450-million-year-old quarries to be shipped up and down the eastern seaboard and beyond. Today, most of those quarries have filled with rain and spring water to form deep ponds and reservoirs. Many are now hidden in woodlands, reclaimed by nature—something Rockport resident Dave Araneo appreciates. “There’s a real quarry atmosphere here,” says Dave, who, together with his son, Matt Araneo, owns Araneo Landworks. “There’s the coastline that the tour
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