History of Newbury, Massachusetts, USA

Newbury, Massachusetts
Essex county. This ancient and respectable town lies on Merrimack river, opposite to Salisbury. It formerly comprised the territory of Newburyport and West Newbury. The soil is of an excellent quality, and in a high state of cultivation. Parker and Artichoke rivers are pleasant streams; the former falls nearly 50 feet in the town, and affords it good mill seats. A part of Plum island is attached to this town. This island, about nine miles in length and one in breadth, extending from Ipswich river to the mouth of the Merrimack, is comprised of sandy beach and salt meadow; and is noted for the beach plum, which ripens in September.

A curious cavern, called the "Devil's Den," contains specimens of asbestos, limestone, marble, serpentine and amianthos. The scenery on the high grounds is rich, variegated and beautiful.

Dummer academy, founded in 1756, is a flourishing institution: it is situated in the parish of "Byfield."

The manufactures of Newbury...

The Indian name of Newbury was Quafcacanquen. It was originally a large town, and the settlement began on the banks of Parker's river.

Newbury included Newburyport and West Newbury, and the greater part of Plum Island, which is a mere sand bank, belongs to Newbury. Dummer Academy, supposed to be the oldest in the State, is in Byfield Parish. The chief employment of the inhabitants is in ship building and the fisheries.

Distance from Salem, 17 miles ; from Boston, 31.

Newbury, a post-township of Essex co., Massachusetts, on the S. side of the Merrimack river, 34 miles N. by E. from Boston. It is intersected by the Eastern railroad. Population, 4426.

She leaves the memory of 3,000 bushels of gathered berries, a snug sum of money, and five generations of descendants, embracing fifty persons.

Newbury is an ancient and pleasant agricultural town in northeast part of Essex County, 32 miles northeast of Boston on the Eastern Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Through it from the west also comes the Danvers, Haverhill and Newburyport Branch. It is bounded on the north by Newburyport, east by the ocean, south by Rowley southwest by Georgetown, and northwest by West Newbury. Its length from east to west, curving southward, is above 8 miles, and its width about 3 miles. The assessed area is 13,094, more than 2,000 acres less than the actual area.

There are about 1,500 acres of woodland. A section of Plum Island forms the ocean frontage, — separated by an arm of the sea called Plum Island River, or Sound. Parker River with its branches — Little River from the north and Mill River from the southwest — are the principal streams, and furnish some motive power. The land is undulating, except in the vicinity of Plum Island Sound, and a large distance of Parker River, where...

Newbury, a township of Essex co., Mass., contains Newbury Old Town, a part of Byfield, and a part of Plum Island. It is traversed by the Eastern Railroad and a branch of the Boston & Maine Railroad. Pop. 1426.