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Marblehead, Essex, MA
Marblehead claims to be the birthplace of the U.S. Navy.
Marblehead includes: Marblehead Neck, Nanapashemet, Clifton, and Devereux.
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- 1629 - Marblehead is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - On December 12, 1648 a Salem Town Meeting voted, subject to the approval of the Massachusetts General Court, to grant Marblehead its complete independence from Salem.
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Photograph- 1845 - MARBLEHEAD. [Pop. 5,575. Inc. 1649.]
Marblehead was originally a part of Salem, and it is a rocky cape or badland, as its name denotes.
Its situation and its harbor are peculiarly...Read MORE... - On September 19, 1846, while the Marblehead fleet prepared to haul its catch of cod from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland,
a massive storm with hurricane-force gales caught the fleet by surprise. The crippled ships limped back to Marblehead, missing at least eleven...Read MORE... - 1854 - Marblehead
Marblehead, a post-village and port of entry of Essex county, Massachusetts, on an irregular rocky peninsula of its own name, and at the terminus of...Read MORE... 
1869 - A three-year-old son of George Curtis, of Marblehead, Mass., was burned to death the other day in trying to run through a bonfire, in imitation of some larger boys.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 15, 1869- 1877 - DESTRUCTION BY FIRE. MARBLEHEAD, MASS., DEVASTATED.
TEN ACRES OF BUSINESS AND DWELLING HOUSES SWEPT AWAY IN A FEW HOURS -ALL BUT THREE OF THE SHOE FACTORIES OF THE TOWN, THE PUBLIC HALL AND ARMORY, A...Read MORE... - 1890 Marblehead Massachusetts
Marblehead is a picturesque and enterprising seaboard town situated on a broad neck of land in the southern part of Essex County; having Beverly...Read MORE... - 1895 - Marblehead
Marblehead, mar'b'l-hèd', a post-town and port of entry of Essex co., Mass., on Massachusetts Bay, in a small township of its own name, 18 miles N.E. ...Read MORE... 
Ocean House Cafe
Postcard- 1906
Marblehead, a banking post-village of Essex co., Mass., on Massachusetts Bay, in a township (town) of its own name, 18 miles NE. of Boston, on the...Read MORE... 
Just a bit of Old Front Street
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Washington Street (1958)
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Ocean House Cafe
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Just a bit of Old Front Street
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Washington Street (1958)
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1629 - Marblehead is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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On December 12, 1648 a Salem Town Meeting voted, subject to the approval of the Massachusetts General Court, to grant Marblehead its complete independence from Salem.
www.marblehead.org/
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1845 - MARBLEHEAD. [Pop. 5,575. Inc. 1649.]
Marblehead was originally a part of Salem, and it is a rocky cape or badland, as its name denotes.
Its situation and its harbor are peculiarly... Read MORE...
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On September 19, 1846, while the Marblehead fleet prepared to haul its catch of cod from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland,
a massive storm with hurricane-force gales caught the fleet by surprise. The crippled ships limped back to Marblehead, missing at least eleven... Read MORE...
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1854 - Marblehead
Marblehead, a post-village and port of entry of Essex county, Massachusetts, on an irregular rocky peninsula of its own name, and at the terminus of... Read MORE...
1869 - A three-year-old son of George Curtis, of Marblehead, Mass., was burned to death the other day in trying to run through a bonfire, in imitation of some larger boys.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 15, 1869
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1877 - DESTRUCTION BY FIRE. MARBLEHEAD, MASS., DEVASTATED.
TEN ACRES OF BUSINESS AND DWELLING HOUSES SWEPT AWAY IN A FEW HOURS -ALL BUT THREE OF THE SHOE FACTORIES OF THE TOWN, THE PUBLIC HALL AND ARMORY, A... Read MORE...
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1890 Marblehead Massachusetts
Marblehead is a picturesque and enterprising seaboard town situated on a broad neck of land in the southern part of Essex County; having Beverly... Read MORE...
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1895 - Marblehead
Marblehead, mar'b'l-hèd', a post-town and port of entry of Essex co., Mass., on Massachusetts Bay, in a small township of its own name, 18 miles N.E. ... Read MORE...
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1906
Marblehead, a banking post-village of Essex co., Mass., on Massachusetts Bay, in a township (town) of its own name, 18 miles NE. of Boston, on the... Read MORE...
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