Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
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 less land
than any other town in the State, not even excepting Hull.
Its situation on the bank of the Merrimack, gradually rising
from the water, renders it one of the most beautiful towns in the
State.
A series of misfortunes, among which was the disastrous fire of 1811, which consumed about 250 buildings in the centre of the town, for several years checked the commercial activity of Newburyport.
It is fast recovering, however ; and the establishment of several
large factories and the great attention paid to education, give indications of reviving prosperity.
Among the great men of Newburyport, were Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons, surnamed the Giant of the Law, and Jacob Perkins,
the inventor of the nail machine, the bank-note plate, and many other
curious and useful things.
Newburyport contains the tomb of the celebrated preacher, George
Whitefeld, who died and was buried here, in 1770.
Distance from Salem, 20 miles ; from Boston, 38
An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845
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