Straightsmouth Island Light

The chapter on Rockport Town in Branch of the Poole Family in America Descended from John Pool of Rockport, Massachusetts : Including the Allied Families of Haskell, Norwood, Storey, Butman, Rand, Kendall, published 1927 names Rockport. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Straightsmouth Island Light between 2016 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,347 specimens collected within 10 miles of Straightsmouth Island Light between 1817 and 1975: 1,375 Animalia, 1,130 Plantae, 462 Fungi, 283 Chromista, 50 Protozoa, 33 Unrecorded, 14 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Perlmutter, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour and F. C. Seymour and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.	1900	Clara E. Cummings
	Coluber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1817	not recorded	Loblolly Cove, Cape Ann
	Ceramium rubrum C.Agardh	1847	N. Pike	Cape Ann
	Acolium tigillare (Ach.) Gray	1849	s.leg.
	Delesseria alata (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux	1859	R.H. Ward	Cape Ann.
	Euthora cristata (C.Agardh) J.Agardh	1859	R.H. Ward	Cape Ann.
	Myoxocephalus scorpius (Linnaeus, 1758)	1859	Weinland, David Friedrich	Essex County, Massachusetts
	Porphyra laciniata (L.) J.Agardh	1859	R.H. Ward	Cape Ann.
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1859	J. Blake
	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata (J.V.Lamouroux) P.C.Silva	1859	R.H. Ward	Cape Ann.
	Fucus Linnaeus, 1753	1860	R.H. Ward	Lanesville.
	Laminaria saccharina (L.) J.V.Lamour.	1865	Collector unknown	Cape Ann

All 3,347 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Straightsmouth Island Light: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockport, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2000: 1 waterspout, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Essex County

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

The whole case file for this property - 1,468 words, 13 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 87001487, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Rockport High School	1.6 miles	1997
	Rockport High School, Old	1.9 miles	2004
	Sewall-Scripture House	2.1 miles	1982
	Granite Keystone Bridge	2.1 miles	1981
	Gray, David, House	2.2 miles	1982
	Old Castle	2.3 miles	1978