Hi, Joey,
As an ex-gloucesterman and artist I look at thousands of local pictures and maps. I know that the East Gloucester Ferry ran from the railways on Rocky Neck to about where the Coast Guard Base is today. But I’ve never seen a picture of the Ferry which someone told me was Little Giant. Wonder if any of your eaders could send in one to GMG? Also, there are a number of sizable granite piers on Lobster Cove in Annisquam and I know it was frequented by coasting and fishing schooners in the past. I’d like to now when the wooden(now footbridge) was built and, it it originally had a span that opened. I hope one of your readers can answer that too.
Bill Hubbard
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Questions From Bill Hubbard
Good Morning Gloucester 
Built in 1861 to cross Lobster Cove, the bridge was added to the National Historic Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is a wood pile bridge. Looking at old photos of the bridge, it did not appear to open, nor does it today.
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Thanks, EJ. I remember driving over it sometime in the mid or late 1940s but couldn’t remember a span that opened.
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