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Clipper City Rail Trail
April 29, 1912
Marker detail: Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 Campaign Speech at Newburyport Railroad Station
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A domed Victorian train station was built in 1893 behind where the Winter Street condominiums stand today. At the time, there were 32 trains traveling to Boston every day.
The station operated for 75 years and was destroyed by fire on May 2, . . . — — Map (db m115590) HM |
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A misplaced switch forced a freight train onto a dead-end side track on May 23, 1873, and the 34-ton steam locomotive smashed through barriers and fell down the embankment to Merrimac Street below. The engineer and fireman jumped clear before the . . . — — Map (db m115587) HM |
Apr. 19, 2024