Bearskin Neck Rockport

Bearskin Neck is a small neck of land that juts out of the town center into Rockport Harbor, and which according to legend was home to bears during colonial times.
Rockport's fishing and granite industries made it a busy commercial dock area.
Name origin
He fought the bear with his knife, and he eventually won. Babson then skinned the bear and laid the bearskin out on the rocks for all to witness. The fisherman passing by then gave the land the name Bearskin Neck.