Talk:Halibut Point State Park

Merger discussion

Halibut point is all the same place. Fine distinctions of property ownership are only made on the map. The state manages the whole thing. What I want to do is create a new article called simply "Halibut Point, Rockport, Massachusetts". Some other short articles might come under it as well.

The place originally had a functional unity. Toward the end of the age of sail a project was begun to dig the stone out of Halibut point and use it to create a massive breakwater across the bay at Rockport Harbor (Sandy Bay, I think) so as to turn Cape Ann from a formula for disaster to sailing vessels to a large and well-favored refuge from storms at its very tip. Several years were spent quarrying the stone from the quarry you see in the pics and dumping it into the bay. If you stand at the harbor in Rockport you see this miraculous thing out there in the bay, a section of breakwater coming from nowhere and going nowhere. They took so long about it that a major cultural change took place. Motorized vessels replaced sailing vessels, so no one had to tack around Cape Ann anymore. You couldn't be blown onto the rocky shore or the sandy shallows if you kept your head on your shoulders. So, they just dropped the whole thing and went out of business. The adjoining cove where stone was loaded was now "Folly Cove." All of Halibut Point was the platform of this remarkable folly. Don't laugh, these 19th century miracle engineers were going to turn Great Marsh into a Dutch-style polder. Thank the Lord they never got started on that. There would have been no market for any crops grown there, as by then food, including perishables, could be transported from almost anywhere to almost anywhere to compete with anyone.Branigan 07:42, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment below.

• I agree to merge. The two are essentially the same. I accidentally found earlier that the two articles were not referring to each other, and this may be the reason why there are two articles on the subject and not one.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:36, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

• Seconded...while the wording may vary slightly, the info contained within each article is redundant when the other is considered. Merger would seem to be the smartest move, then remove any redundancies. Save all the photos. guguwich