Good Harbor Beach
Once Nugent Family Property
By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 09, 2015
Good Harbor Beach
Most who settled
Cape Ann
Toiled the sea
Fishermen of Gloucester
Clusters of homes
Along the shore
Interior vast and empty
Dogtown Common
Abandoned in the 17th century
Cellar holes and stone walls
All that remains
The Nugents
Patrick and Mary
Immigrants from Ireland
Married in 1875
Rented Beaver Dam Farm
In Rockport
From the Babsons
Until the widowed matriarch
Died in the 1920s
Of the nine children
That survived their thirteen
Most left farming far behind
Migrated away to other
Cities and trades
George bought property
Across the road
Now called Nugent Stretch
Raised pigs and cows
A great wedge of land
Including all of
Good Harbor Beach
View of Twin Lights
Ever more popular
With summer bathers
For decades city
Maintained it then
Sued to own
Dragged on for years
Finally as reported
April 10, 1939
Charlie Nugent
Settled for $35,000
Son of a beach
Now cost fifteen bucks
Just to park
If you can find a space
All that’s left
Is the Nugent name
And just a tad of
Gloucester fame