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Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Nathaniel Ward, an assistant pastor of Ipswich (1634-1635), 1636, wrote the first code of laws for Massachusetts.
Ipswich includes: The Bluffs, Candlewood, Line Brook, Little Neck, and Willowdale.
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Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Candlewood an Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich with Genealogies of John Brown, William Fellows, and Robert Kinsman.

Map of Ipswich in 1640
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
History, News and Stories of Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA

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1633 - Ipswich is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1634 - Ipswich is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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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.... Read MORE...
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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... Read MORE...
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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... Read MORE...
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.
IPSWICH, ... Read MORE...
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... Read MORE...
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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... Read MORE...
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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... Read MORE...
Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA Genealogy
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Genealogy Resources for Ipswich
Waters, Thomas F. Candlewood an Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich with Genealogies of John Brown, William Fellows, and Robert Kinsman. Massachusetts: Salem Press, 1909.Vital Records of Ipswich, MA - www.rootsweb.com/~maessex/VitalRecords/EssexCounty/Ipswich/Births_AB.html#B
History of the town of Essex : from 1634 to 1868
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