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East Street
Upper East Street today The abrupt change in the name of High Street to East Street at the intersection with North Street is odd unless one knows a bit of history. When Ipswich was laid out in the...
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Waldingfield Road
The intersection of Waldingfield Road and County Road (Bay Road) marked an area with tremendous wealth, with the Appleton estate Waldingfield on the west and the Proctor estate on the left. The...
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Argilla Road
The 1832 Philander map of Ipswich shows Argilla Rd. as School Street Until the end of the 19th Century, The section of Argilla Road near the intersection with County St. was known as School Street, as...
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Nathaniel Ward: The Simple Cobbler of Agawam in America
Simple Cobbler of Aggawam Nathaniel Ward (1578–October 1652) was a clergyman born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Known for his caustic temperament he was a key player in the Puritan movement....
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Ye Gravel Street: Washington and Liberty Streets
Victorian-era home, 47 Washington Street One of the older established ways in town, Washington Street may have started as a footpath for Native Americans long before John Winthrop and the first...
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A Ramble in Linebrook
Excerpts from A PEN-RAMBLE IN LINEBROOK by M. V. B. PERLEY The Linebrook School was located at the intersection of Linebrook and Leslie Roads This is ancient territory. There were vested rights, upon...
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Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America
In 1875, the last charge of witchcraft in this country was brought to trial in Salem. Lucretia Brown, and invalid living on the South Green in Ipswich was a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy, and when she...
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The Town is Full!
from Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Vol. I: 1633-1700 published in 1905 by Thomas Franklin Waters Puritans persecuted the Quakers THE BODY POLITIC The political privileges of those early...
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Teddy Roosevelt’s “whistlestop” in Ipswich, 1912
Teddy Roosevelt on the campaign trail stops at the Ipswich Train Depot in 1912. The old Damon Block, which was destroyed by fire, is in the background. The present day Market Place stands on the site...
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A Prayer of (Burp) Thanks — The Outsidah
R.I.P Five Corners Deli Thank You, Lord, that we are safe here in Ipswich. Thank You for sending beautiful Colleen, patron saint of health regulations, down from her home in faraway New Hampshire to...
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Steve Georgakopoulos, witness to the 1913 Ipswich Mill Strike
This story was written by Carole Perkins of Ipswich, published Tuesday July 3, 1984 as a supplement to Essex County Newspapers. Former mill foreman Steve Georgakopoulos, 95 and his dog Mouyatsta,...
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Hospital Girls
Hospital Girls, 1908. Front Row left to right, Frances Hull Frazier, Beatrice Huntington Murry, Ruth Dodge Dolan, Harriet Robinson, Irene Brackett Smith, Velma Cannery Curtis and Althea Nason Wilder....
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The ”October Gale” of 1841
A strong hurricane stayed offshore of the Carolinas in early October, 1841 As it continued moving north, it pulled cold air into its circulation and intensified as an extra-tropical storm, with a...
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Hurricanes and winter storms
Our friend Bill Sargent reminded me that Massachusetts has the highest probability of all of the states to be hit by an ocean storm, when you include hurricanes and nor’easters. Here are a few...
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South Main Street and the South Green
The Choate Bridge opens, 1764 The Choate Bridge in Ipswich was constructed in 1764 and is the oldest documented surviving double stone arch bridge in North America. As part of Rt. 1A and Rt. 133 the...
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County Street
County Street is in the Ipswich Architectural Preservation District and has some of the oldest houses in town. The section between East and Summer Streets was originally called Cross St, and the...
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J. Caldwell house, 25 County St.
Caldwell house, 25 County St. The house at 25 County Street in Ipswich was built in approximately 1860. It does not appear on the 1856 map, at which time this section of County St was part of the...
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The Arnold Expedition arrives in Ipswich, September 15, 1775
This memorial sits in the intersection between the South Green and the site of the former South Congregational Church in Ipswich. It reads, “The expedition against Quebec, Benedict Arnold in command,...
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Old North Burying Ground index and photos
The Old North Burying Ground in Ipswich, Massachusetts was established in 1634 upon the founding of the town of the town, and is one of the oldest cemeteries in North America. The Old North Burying...
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