Listed below and underlined are the Gloucesterman references, accompanied in parentheses by relevant literary or historical references. Then I've listed the real identity and cited passages from the novels that helped me arrive at my conclusion. GB is Gloucesterbook, GT Gloucestertide, and P Prologos, listed with the page numbers of the citations. Many of the examples appear so frequently in the books that I didn't see the need to cite specific passages.
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"Acorn Pasture Cemetery had become the nearest thing to a park for the congested Harbor Ward, and its diagonal trails were shortcuts for school kids." GB 248. Isopel Berners buried there, GB 259. Gloria Keith's tryst with Caleb Karcist, GT 294.
Allenton (Ethan Allen's town) - Bennington, VT., HQ of Allen's Green Mountain Boys.
Caleb Karcist went to grade school there, GT 646.
Antipater (regent of Alexander's Empire) - Maximus, Olson's persona.
The Harbor episode, GB 107.
Argo Cove (Jason's ship) - Smith Cove, East Gloucester. GT 390.
Atheneum Free Library - Sawyer Free Library & Lyceum, Gloucester.
Workplace of Gloria Keith, GB 299.
Atlantis - America
Atlindu - Native American
B
Babylon Oaks - Oakland, CA.
Back Street - Prospect Street, Gloucester.
"Back Street spliced into Front" GB 80. "Parlous Square, now safe, at which Back Street continued west" GB 301. Refers to Middle Street only once, GB 83.
Bartaud, Jean-Louis - Artaud, Antonin (1896-1948), writer/director.
Charlemagne studied with, GT 404; GT 262.
Beggarly ("How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!" Walt Whitman, Song of the Broad Axe) - Beverly, MA.
Mentioned in train route from Botolph, GB 85.
Beggarly Community College - Endicott College, Beverly, MA.
"Inez Canary will be lucky will be lucky if her father lets her apply to Beggarly Community College night school." GT 461
Beltane Hill (Beltane: pagan May day festivities) - Governor's Park, Gloucester.
Caleb Karcist shows Bice Picory the view from the hill, GB 270.
Bensalem (Franklin supposedly flew his kite in Bensalem county, PA.) - Salem, MA.
"the Cape's county seat to the south" GB 488.
Berkshire Turnpike (Berkshire Mountains of western MA) - Massachusetts Turnpike
"our new canal to the West" GB 177.
Bethsalem - Salem, MA
"the big turbines down at Bethsalem Beach that transmitted the whole county's basic necessity" GB 304.
Bevel Street - Angle St., Gloucester.
"the tiny diagonal of Bevel Street shortcutting down from the west end of Back Street" n.b. Back here referring to Middle Street, GB 83.
Big Lake (Great Salt Lake) - Utah. GT 399.
Blessed Virgin Mary Basilica - St. Ann's Catholic Church, Gloucester.
"the rough granite apse of the Blessed Virgin Mary basilica, by far the city's most populous church, the huge rounded nave of which ruled over the wooden houses of its banlieu like a castle over its village," GB 300.
Blithedale Place (Hawthorne's novel Blithedale Romance) - Emerson Street, Gloucester.
"Blithedale brought them up to Jubilee Avenue" GB 269.
Botolph (St. Botolph's Town) - Boston, MA.
"The oldest metropolis of North Atlantis," GB 10.
Bournemouth - Burlington, VT. GB 24.
Brotherly (Philadelphia is Greek for 'brotherly love') - Philadelphia, PA.
Shelly Schlossberg is from there, GB 46. "the Brotherly wharves are so run down" GB 46. Mary Tremont's memoirs: "I finally embarked at Brotherly, on Benjamin Franklin's wind-swept, coal-stained South River" GT 605. Tubalcain's products "navigated up the South River to Brotherly" GB 29.
C
Cape Gloucester - Cape Ann, portion east of the Annisquam River.
Casterbridge Junction (Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge) - White River Junction, VT.
"the Pequod River railroad between Hector Falls and Casterbridge Junction," GT 345.
Charlemagne, Ipsissimus (Ipsissimus is the rank of an occult priest) - Olson, Charles (1910-1970), poet.
"The Harbor" GB 67ff. "The Resistance" GB 353ff. "Main Top Bar" GT 523ff.
Charter Oaks - Hartford, CT.
Wallace Stevens worked in insurance there, where he was VP of Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.: GB 20.
Chebego (Chebacco: original name for Essex) - Essex, MA.
One of the towns that send fire engines to DTM, GT 239.
Chebuctu (peninsula in Nova Scotia) - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Bice Picory studied journalism there, GB 266. 1917 Halifax harbor disaster mentioned GT 245.
Cherokee (Cherokee National Forest, TN.) - Tennessee.
Chris Lucey's home, GT 495.
Chitterling, T.S. (chit'lins are a southern food; Eliot was born in Missouri) - Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965), poet.
"The Dry Salvages" quoted, GB 205.
Coalyard Lane - Whittemore Avenue, Gloucester.
"Beltane Hill" GB 266. Fire engine's route, "Westerly Sunrise" GT 240.
Cod Street - Washington Street, Gloucester.
Caleb Karcist lives at Keiths' home, #165, GT 240.
Cornucopia - California
Curb Street - Wall Street (NYC)
Cusk Street (species of fish) - Mason Street, Gloucester.
Caleb Karcist's route home from The Van, GB 301.
Cynosure Rock (cynosure: center of attraction; old name for Ursa Minor) - Granite boulder in Dogtown Common, 191 ft. above sea level. Walburg's Eve festivities, GB 573.
D
Depot Avenue - Railroad Avenue, Gloucester.
Caleb Karcist's route home from The Van, GB 301.
Dilemma Cove - Brace Cove, Gloucester.
"Avalon Reefer" GB 317. Bice Picory tells Caleb Karcist about her stepfather's abuse there, "Magic Mountain" GB 518.
Doghouse, The - Elm House, now Cameron's.
Turntable luncheon, GB 111ff.: "the Reunion Room, hollowed out like an underworld headquarters from the cellar of the storefront house next door."
Dogtown - Gloucester, MA.
Dogtown Daily Nous (nous is Greek for mind) - Gloucester Daily Times.
Printing plant on Whittemore Street (Coalyard Lane), GB 266.
Drang, Auto (drang is German for urge) - Rank, Otto (1884-1939), psychologist.
"That apostate scion of Father Freud, self-exiled Jewish sibling rival of the Aryan Neognostic G C Gnuj." GT 167.
E
Eisenhower Bridge - A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. Bridge, Gloucester.
"which carried the Massachusetts Felly clear above the most celestial masts," GB 461.
English River - Waits R., VT.
"a tributary of the Pequod" GB 24.
F
Felicity-by-the-Sea (Christian martyr) - Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA.
Mentioned in train route from Botolph, GB 85. "Felicity-by-the-sea, Dogtown-by-the-Smell!" Old joke retold by Schlossberg in "The Van" GB 43 (cf. P 807).
Foreside - Eastern Point, Gloucester
French River - Winooski R., VT.
"winding toward its pass through the Green Mountains to Lake Van Luck" GB 24.
Front Street (old name for Main Street) - Main Street, Gloucester.
G
Gansevoort Valley (Melville's brother was named after their grandfather, Gen. Peter Gansevoort) - Hudson River Valley, NY.
Across the border from Allenton, GT.
Gnuj, G. C. - Jung, Carl (1875-1961), psychiatrist.
"the Aryan Neognostic" GT 167.
Governor's Avenue - Commonwealth Avenue, Gloucester.
"steep as any urban ascent in the Old World and just as treeless, crowded with frame houses on both sides" GB 270.
Governor's Hill - Beacon Hill, Boston.
Mary Tremont's experiences there, GT 610.
Graveyard Street - Wall Street (NYC)
Gut Bridge - Cut Bridge, Gloucester.
"only three gates - the Draw the Gut and the Eisenhower highway bridge - in the single wall of the ocean." GT 394.
H
Halibut Street - Middle Street, Gloucester.
Caleb Karcist's route home from The Van, GB 301.
Hannah (William Penn's second wife) - Pennsylvania. GT 399.
Heartbone, Richard - Hartshorne, Charles (1897-2000), theologian.
"Chapter" GT 642.
Hector Falls (Trojan prince) - Bellows Falls, VT. GB 24.
Higher, Percy - Lowell, Robert (1917-1977), poet.
Dislike of Jock Merrimac, GB 377.
Higher Falls - Lowell, MA.
Home town of Jock Merrimac (Jack Kerouac), GB 377.
Hispania - Spain
Hume - Berkely, CA.
Caleb Karcist attended University of Cornucopia at Hume, GB 204.
I
Ibicity Hall ('ibi' is Latin for 'there') - City Hall, Gloucester.
Workplace of Dexter Keith, city planner, GB 299.
Island Roads - Rhode Island.
Duncannon's houseboy Oku lives there, GT 491.
Itasca (Lake Itasca, MN, source of the Mississippi River) - Minnesota. GT 399.
J
Joppa (Biblical name for Jaffa) - Barre, VT.
"where all the granite-cutting sheds used to be" GB 24.
Jubilee Avenue - Centennial Avenue, Gloucester.
"a contricted shortcut artery over the rump of Beltane Hill to the esplanade, much traveled by kilroys avoiding the congested downtown end of Cod Street to get over to the Gut Bridge on the harborfront" GB 269.
K
Kerouac River (Lowell native Jack Kerouac) - Merrimack River.
"the Tranquility River of Vinland makes its tribute to the moody Kerouac" GT 529.
Kierkegaard, Sully - Kierkegaard, Soren (1813-1855), philosopher.
"the purest Pauline" GT 572.
Kite's Bay - Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts
"this Epimethean coastline (from the Kerouac River to Kite's Bay)" GB 10.
L
Laboratory of Melchizedek (priest who blessed Abraham) - St. Mel's, East Harbor, Gloucester.
"Avalon Reefer" GB 559.
Lagash (ancient Sumerian city) - Brooklyn, NYC.
Tessa and Cora's home town, GB 141; "without a trace of Lagash accent," GB 144; "the glamorous lofts and studios of Ur across the river from our unglamorous daily-working Lagash," GT 458.
Lake Van Luck - Lake Champlain. GB 24.
Leviathan Court (Biblical sea monster; political analysis by Hobbes) - Haven Court, Gloucester.
Charlemagne's street: "a short double-dead-end T," GB 67.
Liverpool (Hawthorne was US consul in Liverpool, UK) - Lynn, MA.
On the train route from Botolph, GB 85.
Londonbridge - Alameda, CA.
An artificial island like Dogtown, GB 54. Tubalcain factory is there, GB 28.
Lonestar (Lone Star State) - Texas.
GT 399; Mary Tremont's sister moved there, GT 620.
Luse Wine (Lusitania) - Port wine.
Lusitania - Portugal.
M
Magdalene (Biblical Mary) - Maryland. GT 399.
Markland (King Mark from Tristan & Isolde; Leif Erickson's fabled US locale) - Maine.
"Opsimath began to feel a boreal shadow from the Markland forehead invisibly beetling the upper horizon," GB 10. Home of Father Davy, GT 132.
Matthews Point - Andrews Point, Ocean View, Rockport. GT 618.
Melville, Arminius - Melville, Herman (1819-1891), author.
"the creations of Arminius Melville" GT 527.
Merrimac, Jock (Merrimack River in Lowell, MA; Kerouac played football) - Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969), author.
Visits Leviathan Court, GB 374. Visits Main Top Bar, GT 529ff. "Jock was famous for punching out his narratives at white heat on continuous rolls of sprocket-holed paper uninterrupted by hesitation or self-criticism" GT 532.
Massachusetts Felly (felly: wheel's rim or portion of one) - Yankee Division Highway, Route 128.
Montvert (Le-Pont-de-Montvert, France: site of Neolithic standing stones. Huguenot stronghold in 17th century) - Vermont.
Mother's Neck - Rocky Neck, East Harbor, Gloucester.
Opsimath buys home there, GT 387.
Mount Olive Cemetery (Gethsemane) - Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
Caleb Karcist and Lillian Cloud meet at the gate, GT 133ff.
Mount Olive Street - Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Caleb Karcist rides a streetcar from Norumbega Square, GT 137.
Mt. Pleasure Avenue - Mt. Pleasant Avenue, East Harbor, Gloucester.
N
Namauche River (Namauchia: ancient sea duels) - Annisquam River.
"The waterway I crossed last night on the Dogtown Draw" GB 54.
Napoleon (Sold USA Louisiana Purchase) - Louisiana. GT 399.
Nashdom (Anglican Benedictine abbey in UK) - Nashville, TN.
Chris Lucey's home, GT 496.
Nedlaw Pond (Walden spelled backwards) - Niles Pond, East Harbor, Gloucester.
The Foreside is "hollowed by Nedlaw Pond, like the eye of a sailmaker's needle" GB 317.
Nether Land - Upstate New York.
"the "Empyrean State" of Nether Land" GB 304.
Nether Land Throughway - New York State Thruway. GB 177.
New Albion - New Hampshire. GB 399.
New Armorica - New England.
"The French could have cut off all of New Armorica before 1765, right down to New Uruk." GT 345.
New Uruk (ancient Mesopotamian city)- New York
New Uruk Nimrods (Nimrod built the Tower of Babel) - New York Yankees. GB 81
New Uruk Testament - New York Times. GB 81.
Newessexport - Newburyport, MA.
"That northern venue with pleasant taverns for anonymous strangers was preferred for public privacy to more populous Bensalem" GB 488. "the barred mouth of the Kerouac River" GB 488.
Nim, Anima (nim: number game, anima: Jung's feminine aspect of male consciousness) - Nin, Anais (1903-1977), author.
Auto Drang's paramour, GT 449. "my animus for the egocentripetal Anima certainly didn't come from envy of her intimacy with poor ugly little Auto Drang," GT 449.
North River - Hudson River.
"I'm as hopeful as Henry Hudson starting up the great North River" GT 30.
North Village - Northern area of Gloucester and Rockport corresponding to Ocean View and Pigeon Cove.
GB 141; "the most charming ward in all of Dogtown," GB 159; GT 122.
Norumbega Square (mythical locale) - Harvard Square, Cambridge.
Norumbega University - Harvard University
Charlemagne went there with John F. Kennedy, GB 71.
Noxin, Distard Undershot (C9H6N2O3: toxic compound) - Nixon, Richard M. (1913-1994), US President.
"that rancorous, self-serving hollowedout, evilminded, vindictive, belly-crawling basilisk!" GB 102.
Nuzu (ancient Mesopotamian city) - New Jersey. GT 399.
O
Ozone, Prosper (O3: chemical, Prospero in The Tempest) - Hammond, John Hays Jr. (1888-1965), inventor.
Patron of Charlemagne's periodical, GB 103. Owned Ibi-Roi. Employed Mary Tremont and Caleb Karcist at separate times. Death, GB 100.
P
Parliament Island - Ten Pound Island.
"the red beacon in the foreground at the navigable end of Parliament Island" GB 86.
Parthenia (Greek: virgin) - Virginia. GT 399.
Pequod (ship in Moby-Dick) - Connecticut.
'the wealthy little state of Pequod" GB 24.
Pequod River - Connecticut River.
GT 345; "named from the mouth up" GB 24.
Pigeonhole Cove - Pigeon Cove, Gloucester. GT 115.
Pleasure Street - Pleasant Street, Gloucester.
Caleb Karcist's route home from The Van, GB 301.
Pollock Avenue - Maplewood Avenue, Gloucester.
"three blocks in from Cod Street" GB 258. Caleb Karcist's route home from The Van, GB 301.
Poncedeleon (Spanish conquistador) - Florida.
Ozone's gardener retires there, GB 467.
Powerhouse Cove - Rowe's Cove, Gloucester
South of Pigeonhole Cove, GT 115; GB 159.
Purdeyville - Dogtown Common.
Q
Quigley Brook - Alewife Brook, Gloucester.
Caleb's walk through Purdeyville, GT 113.
R
Railcut Pond (after nearby Railcut Hill) - Babson Reservoir, Gloucester. GT 113.
Redburn, Wellingborough (Melville character) - Melville, Herman (1819-1891), author.
"Mardi" quoted, GT 549.
S
Sacrum Square (tail-end of Cod Street) - Market Street, Gloucester.
"the source or sink of Front Street and five others" GB 82.
St. Botolph (Botolph's town) - Boston, MA.
Salt Cod Park - Stage Fort Park, Gloucester.
Opsimath visits, GB 54.
San Ricardo - San Francisco, CA.
Opsimath's boyhood home, GB 75.
Seamark (seamark: buoy) - Rockport, MA.
"Rocky Bay" GB 139ff.
Sells, Whoreson - Welles, Orson (1915-1985), director.
"The Harbor" GB 98.
Serpentine Avenue - Stacey Boulevard, Gloucester.
Named for sightings of sea serpent, GB 109.
Shawmut River (Boston is built on Shawmut Peninsula) - Charles River. GB 366 & GT 135.
Sheffield - Springfield, VT (not Sheffield in Caledonia County, VT).
Dexter Keith's home town: "an 'industrial village,' but a pretty important one internationally, for its machine tools," GT 341.
Smith's Bay - Ipswich Bay.
"a dragger straggling home via Smith's Bay from its secret fishing ground in the Gulf of Markland," GT 246.
South River - Delaware River.
Sea route to/from Brotherly, GB 29 & GT 605.
South Parish - Magnolia, Gloucester. GT 239.
South Swindon - Windsor, Windsor County, VT.
Home town of Gloria Keith, GT 340; in Montvert's Swindon County, GT 343.
Squid Circle (many-tentacled rotary) - Grant Circle, Gloucester.
Rotary built into the marsh, GB 274.
Sterling, Ezra (British pound sterling; former Sterling's drugstore on Main Street) - Pound, Ezra (1885-1972), poet.
"our maligned mad poet" GT 576.
Sterne, Meriwether (Merry) - Sterne, Richard (c1596-1683) Archbishop of York.
"the Royalist counterrevolutionary priest" GB 88-89.
Swanfen (fen: swamp) - Swampscott, MA. GB 85.
Swipitch - Ipswich, MA.
T
Tansy Hill (tansy: toxic herb) - Bond Hill, Gloucester.
"Across the Gut, where a string of lights lost itself in Tansy Hill" GB 84.
Taraville (Tara: ancient seat of Irish Kings) - Laneville, Gloucester.
Tinkersdale - Riverdale, Gloucester. GT 606.
Tinkersdam - Annisquam, Gloucester. GT 613.
Terra Nova (old name for Newfoundland) - Newfoundland, Canada.
"halfway to England," GB 261.
Tranquility River ('somme' comes from the Celtic word for tranquility) - Concord River.
Confluence of Concord & Merrimack, GT 529.
Tuscany - Italy.
Tybbot, Richard - Babson, Roger Ward (1875 - 1967), entrepreneur, business theorist.
"the apothegms that Tybbot had caused to have incised in a string of random boulders along the south path to Purdeyville before donating to the city his ancestral moiety of the island's watershed" GB 358.
U
Unabridge - Cambridge, MA.
Unaford - Oxford, UK
V
Van, The (short for caravansary) - Halibut Point (bar on Main Street, Gloucester. Formerly Blackburn's).
"the place that most townspeople had forgotten was a real hotel," GB 37. "Main-Top Bar" GT 523ff.
Vernalia - Colombia.
"just above the equator, was only a few degrees east of the Cape Gloucester meridian" GT 25.
Vinland (Norse settlement in America) - Massachusetts.
Vinland & Markland Railroad - Boston & Maine Railroad.
Vinland Bay - Massachusetts Bay.
W
Walkyr, Albert Blackstone (i.e., pedestrian) - Ryder, Albert Pinkham (1847-1917), painter.
"Main Top Bar" GT 552.
West Marsh - West Gloucester.
"Westerly Sunrise": "The trains'll have to back up to the West Marsh station," GT 245; home of Thad and Cora Kryothermsky, GB 157.
Whale Avenue - Dale Avenue, Gloucester.
"Whale Avenue ran short straight and stout like a crossbeam bearing the socket of a mast and held the city together" GB 301.
White Quarry College - Black Mountain College, NC.
Whitehead, Alpha Norman - Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947), philosopher.
"the greatest organic systems man of them all," GB 358.
Whiteman, Walter - Whitman, Walt (1819-1892), poet.
Jock Merrimac is "known for quashing references to Walter Whiteman," GT 529.
Windmill, The (site of Webber's windmill) - Tavern Restaurant, Gloucester.
"The Harbor" GB 84ff.
Whyaway - Wyoming.
In Opsimath's map collection, GT 399. Gilbert Algo "calls himself the Hillbilly of the Great Plains. In Whyaway they don't give talented orphans an education." GT 473.
Wye Square - Intersection of Sawyer, Haskell and East Main Streets, East Harbor, Gloucester.
Home/Studio of Petto, GB 375.
Y
Yeovil (Eliot's burial site in UK) - Montpelier, VT. GB 24.
Yerba Buena (island in San Francisco Bay) - San Francisco, CA.
