![]() System One (Amadeus): Created by Eastern Air Lines integrated into the similar European Amadeus system in the late 90s. Sabre: Created by American Airlines widely known as the most technologically advanced system. Latitude 42.676268, Longitude -70.6486045 Directions & ParkingĪ small parking area for 2-3 cars on Leverett Street.There are four major systems, known as Computer Reservations Systems (CRS) or if you use the new term, "Global Distribution Systems" (GDS).ġ. The largest quarry is Barker's pond, followed by Long Pit and a third, smaller pond called the Children's Quarry. The trails are wide and flat, since they were once part of the network of roads used by vehicles and machinery needed to haul in supplies and remove the granite from the quarries. When the mining industry fell on hard times during the Great Depression, these quarries, like many others, were abandoned. Granite from Cape Ann was highly sought after and was shipped to Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The most-recent quarries were created when the land was mined for granite in the early 1900s. Many examples of artifacts produced this way have been found over the years and are preserved in local museums and private collections today. They used stone hammers and chisels to peck out small blocks of granite, rhyolite, and basalt and carried them to manufacturing sites where they further reduced the preforms to make projectile points, tools, and weapons. Indigenous people also quarried for stone, at exposed outcrops. To Algonquians living here over millennia, the entire area was important for procuring food, fuel, and forest products such as bark for containers, wigwam shingles, canoes, and burial shrouds tree resins for gluing, waterproofing, and rendering into syrup and fibers for weavings, baskets, and lashings. ![]() ![]() ![]() The public trails lead onto the property from Leverett Street, winding around the quarries, passing through wooded areas and near vernal ponds and intermittent streams.īefore the advent of the quarry industries, this terrain was a continuation of the North Gloucester Woods, abutting New England Forestry Foundation lands as an extension of Dogtown-Cape Ann’s watershed. ![]() This unique Lanesville parcel in the North Gloucester woods features three abandoned granite quarries and an existing recreational trail network that connects into Dogtown. Abandoned Quarries & Recreational Trails Gabriel and Selma Kleimola Reservation | Gloucester Property Description & History ![]()
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