Newburyport Birthplace of the U.S. Coast Guard

Newburyport's Yankee Homecoming celebration (July 26-August 2, 2015) will highlight the 225th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Coast Guard and 100th anniversary of the service being called the "Coast Guard." According to the Yankee Homecoming website:

"On August 4, 2015 the US Coast Guard will celebrate their 225th birthday. This year is special as this is the 100th anniversary of the Coast Guard name, previously known as the Revenue Cutter Service. The US Coast Guard officially began August 4, 1790 when the Tariff Act authorized the building of 10 cutter ships used to enforce the tariff laws. The first of these ships to be commissioned and operated was the Massachusetts which was built in 1791 by the Currier Shipyard in Newburyport. This was the beginning of our history with the Coast Guard which continued with the building of the Custom House in 1835, being named birthplace of the Coast Guard in 1965 by President Johnson, and being name an official coast guard city in 2012."

In celebration of the anniversary I am posting this video of a Coast Guard boat on patrol passing by the north jetty construction site.