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Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Beverly includes: Centreville, Cove Village, Montserat, Prides Crossing, Ryall Side, United Shoe Machine Co., West Beach, West Farms, and Beverly Farms.
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Old Photos, Pictures, Advertisements and Postcards from Beverly, Massachusetts, USA

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The Oldest House in Beverly, Massachusetts, Balch and Cabot Sts.

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Seth Norwood & Co
Manufacturers of Fine Shoes, Beverly, Mass

Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
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United Shoe Mach Co. Plant - Beverly
"In late September 1902 in an extra edition of the Beverly Evening Times, the news was trumpeted that the United Shoe Machinery Company had picked a 150-acre site off Elliott Street in Beverly for a massive factory. Construction began the next year. When it was completed the huge complex held more than ten acres of floor space in three buildings, along with a foundry and drop forge. This building, by Ernest Ransome, was revolutionary in its day. Made... Read MORE...

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President Taft's Summer Home, Beverly, Mass., 1909
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Beverly, Mass. Unitarian Church which President Taft attends
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History, News and Stories of Beverly, Massachusetts, USA

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1626 - Beverly is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1668 - Beverly is incorporated
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1775 - First Navy Ship
The first ship of the US Navy, the schooner "Hannah", commissioned in
Beverly.
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1839 - Beverly
Beverly, Massachusetts
Essex county. This town lies N. of Salem, and is united to it by a bridge across the North river, built in 1788, 1,500 feet in length. The people of this town are noted for their enterprise in commerce and the fisheries. There are some merchant vessels belonging to this... Read MORE...
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1845 - BEVERLY. [Pop. 4,689. Inc. 1668.]
Beverly is separated from Salem, of which it was originally a
part, by an arm of the sea called Bass River, over which is a bridge.
Beverly is quite an agricultural town, although extensively engaged in the fisheries, and in the manufacture of boots and shoes.
Captain Lathrop, who, with his... Read MORE...
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1854 - Beverly
Beverly, a post-village, in a township of the same name, of Essex county, Massachusetts, 2 miles N. of Salem, and 16 miles N. N. E. from Boston, with which it is connected by railroad. Another railroad branching off from the Eastern Railroad, connects it with Gloucester. The principal industry of... Read MORE...
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Beverly Massachusetts, 1890
Beverly is an old agricultural, nautical and manufacturing town, beautifully situated on rising ground on the southern shore of Essex County. It is bounded on the north by Wenham, east by Manchester, south by Salem Harbor, and west by Danvers. A bridge 1,500 feet long connects Beverly village on... Read MORE...
1891 - BEVERLY FLAME SWEPT. A DISASTROUS FIRE WHICH DID OVER $200,000 DAMAGE.
Beverly, Mass., Nov. 2. - Beverly was visited yesterday by a $200,000 fire. The fire was discovered about 2:15 p.m. in ALLEN'S box factory on Revere street. The building was set on poles over the Danvers River. Owing to the inflammable contents of the factory, and the wind which prevailed, the... Read MORE...
1892 - RAILROAD WRECK AT BEVERLY. A PASSENGER CRASHES INTO A FREIGHT - SEVERAL HURT.
BEVERLY, Mass., Aug. 17. - At 5:40 this afternoon Passenger Train No. 112, Rockport to Boston, met an extra freight at Paradise Crossing, on the Boston and Maine, Railroad at Beverly and a collision ensued. The passenger train was going thirty miles an hour and the freight twelve miles. Both... Read MORE...
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1894 - Beverly is incorporated as a city
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1895 - Beverly
Beverly, a post-village of Essex Co., Mass., on the "North Shore," and on a bay or inlet of the Atlantic, 18 miles by rail N.E. of Boston, 2 miles N.N.E. of Salem, at the junction of the Gloucester and Rockport Branch. It is separated from Salem by an inlet of the sea, which is crossed by 2... Read MORE...
1910 - 2 DIE IN FIRE AT BEVERLY.
Three Other Men in Cottage Severely Injured
Beverly, Mass., June 21. - Two men were burned to death and three others received severe injuries in a fire which destroyed the Century Club cottage and an adjoining small summer residence at Bates parks, in this city, today. The dead are Henry B.... Read MORE...
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1916
Beverly, a banking city and summer-resort of Essex co., Mass., on the " North Shore," on a bay or inlet of the Atlantic, and on the Boston and Maine R., 18 miles NE. of Boston and 2 miles NNE. of Salem, from which it is separated by an inlet of the sea. Beverly has a good harbor, manufactures of... Read MORE...
1926 - Dies of Suffocation
Beverly, Mass., April 30 - (AP) - George H. Stamper, 60, died of suffocation in a fire which destroyed the building of the Jubilee Yacht Club here this morning.
The clubhouse was one of the landmarks of this city's waterfront. Stamper, who occupied a room in the building, and retired when the... Read MORE...
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