History, News and Stories of Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA

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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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• 1839 - Marblehead
  Marblehead, Massachusetts
  Essex county. This is a noted fishing town, on a rocky point of land extending into Massachusetts bay, with a hardy and intrepid crew of fishermen and sailors. The harbor is commodious and easy of access. The quantity of fish exported from this place in 1794 amounted to... Read MORE...
  
  
• 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 adapted to commerce; and perhaps no place in the United States is, and always has been, so completely commercial.
  
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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 vessels.
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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 a railroad by which it has communication with Salem, 18 miles N. E. from Boston. It is pleasantly situated on an excellent harbor, which is accessible ... 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 CHURCH, AND OVER 70 SHOPS AND DWELLINGS DESTROYED - OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS LOSS, WITH HALF OF IT INSURED.
  
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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 harbor on the north, the ocean on the east and southeast, Swampscott on the south, and Salem with its harbor on the west. It lies some 20 miles northeast... 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. of Boston, and about 3 miles S.E. of Salem. It is connected with Boston by two branches of the Eastern Railroad. Its site is a small peninsula, very... Read MORE...
  
  
• 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 Boston and Maine R. Its site is a small peninsula, very rocky and uneven. It is one of the oldest and quaintest towns of New England, with many colonial ... Read MORE...
  
  
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