History of Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA

• 1635 - Newburyport is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1764 - Newburyport is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1845 - NEWBURYPORT. [Pop, 7,161. Inc. 1764.]
  This town was the port of Newbury until it was separated by the
  act of incorporation.
  
  It is compactly built, and is remarkable for containing...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1851 - Newburyport is incorporated as a city
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1854 - Newburyport
  Newburyport, a city, port of entry, and one of the capitals of Essex county, Massachusetts, 34 miles N. by E. from Boston, is situated on the right...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1857 - Rescue of the Missing Newburyport Pilot.
  The Newburyport Herald of the 25th inst. has the following account of the arrival home of the missing and mourned pilot:-
  
  The day of miracles is...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1868 - The man who now pays the largest income tax in Newburyport, Mass., began life by working in the Newburyport Herald office for two dollars and a half a week.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  May 30, 1868
  
  
•  1869 - The recent earthquake at the East was very severe at Newburyport, Mass.,
  shaking the doors and windows and many movable things in the houses. The people generally were awakened by the commotion. An old brick mansion, built ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1871 - A Newburyport, Mass., dispatch states that Leonard Choate, known as the Newburyport "Fire-bug" has been sentenced to state prison for life, for committing numerous incendiary acts in that city and vicinity.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  February 18, 1871
  
  
•  1888 - On the 19th Mrs. Elizabeth Worth White, of Newburyport, Mass., celebrated her one hundredth birthday.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  November 24, 1888
  
  
•  1888 - Three earthquake shocks occurred on the morning of the 23d at Newburyport, Mass., and houses four miles from town were violently shaken.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  January 28, 1888
  
  
• 1890 Newburyport Massachusetts
  NEWBURYPORT, anciently the port of Newbury, and now a port of entry, a city, and a seat of justice for Essex County, is delightfully situated on the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Newburyport
  Newburyport, naber-e-port', a city, port of entry, and one of the capitals of Essex co., Mass., is finely situated £n the S. bank of the Merrimac, 3...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Plum Island Hotel
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  State Street from Charter Street
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•  1903 - Injured in Ball Game
  Andrew Pettingill 17 years old, and a member of the senior class of the Newburyport High school, was seriously injured in a ball game at the local...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1906
  Newburyport, a city, port of entry, and one of the captials of Essex co., Mass., is finely situated on the S. bank of the Merrimac River, 3 miles...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  1909 advertisement
  
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  Newburyport, Mass.
  
  Kensington, New Hampshire, sketches and reminiscences by Mace, Ida M Published 1909
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  Lord Timothy Dexter Mansion, Newburyport, Mass.
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