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Russell’s Lunch–where the Ipswich clam became king
Russell’s Lunch on Depot Square in Ipswich. Photo by George Dexter (Excerpts from a 1972 article in Ipswich Today, published by Donna and Harris Smith) “That delectable delicacy known as the Ipswich...
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Along the Ipswich River, 1860-1930
Follow the Ipswich River, starting at the Willowdale Dam and continuing past all four stone arch bridges in Ipswich, then along Water Street to the Town Wharf and out to sea. Many of these photos were...
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Help Stop Hunger Now, Saturday May 14, 2016
Stop Hunger Now Join the movement to end hunger in our lifetime! Stop Hunger Now has been working to end hunger across the globe for 18 years. Established in 1998, Stop Hunger Now coordinates the...
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Glen Magna and the Joseph Peabody Family of Salem
Article by Helen Breen The Glen Magna Estate is now managed as a non-profit by the Danvers Historical Society. Photo courtesy North of Boston magazine Before the advent of the modern transportation,...
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The Proximity Fuze: How Ipswich women helped win WWII
Women working in a proximity fuze plant (unknown site). The former Ipswich Mills, now owned by EBSCO, was the site of one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Second World War. The proximity VT...
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Cows coming home from Jeffreys Neck
From the History of Great Neck, published in 1984 by Doris Wilson: “In 1660, there were about four hundred sheep on the Neck, and a shepherd was appointed by the town. Regulations for the cutting of...
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April 1, 1970: The Massachusetts Legislature challenges the Vietnam War
On April 1st, 1970, both houses of the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill known as the “Shea Act,” challenging the legality of the Vietnam War. The act declared that no inhabitant of...
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The Merchant Princes, Cyrus Wakefield and George Peabody
by Helen Breen Question: What Do Wakefield and Peabody Have In Common? Answer: Both renamed their Essex County towns in the mid 19th century to honor their “favorite sons” and benefactors – Cyrus...
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Rum runners
On Tuesday April 12, 2016, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM: Paul Valcour presents “Rum Running and Distilling,” a monthly Lecture sponsored by the Friends of the Ipswich Library. This event will take place in the...
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Mass Moments: Puritans Leave for Massachusetts
On April 7, 1630, the last well-wishers stepped off the ship Arabella and returned to shore. More than a week after the vessel first set out, the winds were finally favorable. The ship weighed anchor...
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The Greek Hotel
The J. J. Goodhue home at the corner of Market Street and Saltonstall Streets is visible in the 1872 Ipswich village map, and in the 1884 village map, but the 1910 village map identifies it as the...
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April 1, 1970: The Massachusetts Legislature challenges the Vietnam War
On April 1st, 1970, both houses of the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill known as the “Shea Act,” challenging the legality of the Vietnam War. The act declared that no inhabitant of...
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A Heated Battle – Lodge vs. Curley 1936
by Helen Breen Some things never change. In the midst of the inflammatory rhetoric of the 2016 American Presidential campaign, let us pause and reflect on the simpler, but no less acrimonious,...
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The great and famous not so gentle Ipswich putdown
Republished from Ipswich Yesterday by Alice Keenan, 1982. Photos by George Dexter and Edward L. Darling. Ipswich has the habit, long ingrained, of turning on those who love her most, and who,...
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First Period Danvers house saved by the builder
The Benjamin Holten house before it was restored. The Benjamin Holten house at 52 Centre Street in Danvers is one of only 15 First Period houses remaining in that town (Ipswich has 58). It was...
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The Hello Girls
Story by Harold Bowen, from Tales of Olde Ipswich, 1975. It was sort of a sad year in 1954 when the telephone service in Ipswich was changed from the traditional operator system (Hello Girls) to the...
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The Muster Murder of 1787
During the Boston Muster of 1787, Daniel Foster of Rowley participated in the customary celebration of shooting musket balls into the air, and accidentally shot Amos Chapman of Ipswich in the leg....
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Remembering Susan Howard Boice
by Beverly Perna Susan Howard Boice Sue Boice died on July 16, 2013, but word got around town slowly that she had passed. I didn’t know until August 24th when a friend called and asked me to go to a...
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A Nostalgic Glance at Harvard’s Early History
*From it’s earliest days, the people of Ipswich made frequent contributions to Harvard College. William Hubbard of Ipswich, the son of the Rev.William Hubbard, in his twenty-first year, ‘was one of...
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How will sea level rise affect Ipswich?
Sea levels rose about 8 inches globally and about 1 foot on the Eastern Seaboard in the past century. What would happen to Ipswich if catastrophic predictions for the 21st Century are realized? In a...
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