History of Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA

• 1633 - Ipswich is settled
  
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• 1634 - Ipswich is incorporated
  
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  Map of Ipswich in 1640
  Candlewood an Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich with Genealogies of John Brown, William Fellows, and Robert Kinsman.
  
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  The Olde Burnham House, built 1640
  
  The Giddings-Burnham House is a historic house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The house was probably built in the 1640s by George Giddings and was sold to his brother-in-law Thomas Burnham...
  
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  Old Historical House, built 1669
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  Ross Tavern, built 1734
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  Choates Bridge built 1764. The Oldest Stone Arch Bridge in America, Ipswich, Mass.
  
  Colonel John Choate, a noted resident who had led a regiment at Louisburg and who served as a representative to the General Court designed the bridge and... Read MORE...
  
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  Old Heard House, built 1795
  
  The Heard house is a Federal-style structure built in 1795 by wealthy John Heard. Before the Revolutionary War he had invested in the rum factory on Turkey Shore Road along the river bank where they unloaded barrels of ... Read MORE...
  
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  Agawam House
  Located at 26 North Main Street
  
  Originally Treadwell’s Inn (built in 1806 by Nathaniel Treadwell), the inn was renamed the Agawam House and continued as the town’s first class hotel until it closed in the late... Read MORE...
  
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  Town Hall
  30 South Main Street
  
  The Unitarian Church built it in 1833 but sold it to the town ten years later to be used as town hall and a social gathering place.
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• 1845 - IPSWICH. [Pop. 3,000. Inc 1634.]
  The Indian name of Ipswich was Agawam, and the first minister, Mr. Ward, wrote a witty satire, entitled The Simple Cobbler of Agawam.
  
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• 1854 - Ipswich
  Ipswich, a post-village, port of entry, and one of the shire-towns of Essex county, Massachusetts, is situated on both sides of a river of its own nam...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Ipswich Massachusetts, 1890
  Ipswich is a pleasant seaboard town in Essex County, 27 miles northeast of Boston by the Eastern Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. It is of t...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Old Hayes Tavern, Ipswich, Mass.
  
  "The Hayes Tavern had originally been built by the Peatfield brothers c. 1840. It is said to have been the first men's underwear factory in the country. Converted to Hayes Tavern by John W. Hayes in 1885. it... Read MORE...
  
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  High St. from Lord's Square
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  Market Street from Depot Square
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•  1894 - FLAMES FANNED BY THE WIND. Firemen of Ipswich, Mass., Struggle to Save Their Town.
  Three Blocks Totally Destroyed and Several Dwellings Burned.
  
  Fire Fighters Suffered From the Bitter Cold - Sparks Carried a Half Mile.
  
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•  1894 - House Will Be Destroyed
  IPSWICH, Mass., July 21. - The black diphtheria has broken out in Ipswich. Already two children in the family of Thomas Began have died from this dise...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Ipswich
  Ipswich, a post-village of Essex co, Mass., in a town ship of the same name, on the Ipswich River, 3 miles from its entrance into the ocean, 27 miles ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1899 - Lightning Strikes Steeple
  Ipswich, Mass., June 16. - During a heavy storm last night lightning struck the steeple on the South Congregational church and soon the entire buildin...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Ipswich Mills, Ipswich, Mass.
  
  "The Ipswich Mill Company was founded in 1868 by Amos Adams Lawrence, and developed this area, which had seen a variety of industrial uses since the 18th century. The company manufactured hosiery, one of the... Read MORE...
  
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  Ipswich, Mass. Ipswich River at foot of Summer St.
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  Main Street, Ipswich, Mass.
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  Steamboat Landing, Ipswich, Mass.
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  Railroad Station and Square
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  Tyler Block
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  Great Hill from West Shore Road, Hough's Neck, Mass.
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  Soldiers Monument and Old North Church, Ipswich, Mass.
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  The Bluffs
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  New Fire Station
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  Ipswich Light House, 1910
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  Meeting House Green
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• 1916
  Ipswich, a banking post-village and township (town) of Essex co., Mass., on the Ipswich River, 3 miles from its entrance into the ocean and 27 miles N...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Cable Memorial Hospital
  
  Construction of the Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital was begun at the intersection of Essex and County Roads on the former Kimball estate, known in Colonial times as Windmill Hill. Richard Teller Crane Jr.... Read MORE...
  
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  Cottages at Little Neck and Crane's Hill
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  Memorial Hall
  33 Central Street
  
  In 1921 the Memorial Building was voted to be built in memory of Ipswich Veterans of all wars at a cost of $52,000. It was used to house two 6th grade classes (52 pupils) from 1969-1971 and as an office facility... Read MORE...
  
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  St. Joseph's Church and Rectory
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  Upland Farm
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  (Owned by Orrin and Kenneth Parsons)
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  High School
  
  In 1936 the new High School on Green Street was occupied and classes started. After a very long time and after much debate by several committees a new high school was voted on, with federal funds (the Town voted $120,000 to be added... Read MORE...
  
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  New Bank Building
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