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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Essex County, Massachusetts
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| | Established in 1638, one of the oldest graveyards in New England. Site of first meetinghouse. Six hundred Revolutionary heroes and several early pastors were interred at the top of the hill. — — Map (db m48005) HM |
| | Under a giant oak near this spot on July 9, 1728, Middleton held its first town meeting & received its charter from the province of Massachusetts Bay — — Map (db m48472) HM |
| | Landing place on River Parker of the men and women who settled in Newbury between 1635 and 1650. — — Map (db m48219) HM |
| | Indian region called Quascacunquen, settled 1635 under leadership of the puritan clergyman Thomas Parker — — Map (db m47986) HM |
| | Indian region called Quascacunquen. Settled 1635 under leadership of the puritan clergyman Thomas Parker. — — Map (db m48593) HM |
| | First ferry across the Merrimack river from Newbury to Salisbury, established about 1639, and the only route from Boston to the eastern frontier. In 1641 George Carr was appointed ferryman with rights which continued in his family for generations. — — Map (db m47972) HM |
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Brought from the siege of
Louisburg
by Nathaniel Knapp Jr. 1759
preserved by his son
Isaac Knapp
as a memorial to his father
and also to his brother
Jacob Knapp
who served at Bunker Hill
and was a member of the . . . — — Map (db m115543) HM |
| | 1790-1990
Bicentennial of the United States Coast Guard
We the people of Newburyport, Massachusetts dedicate this plaque to the men and women of the United States Coast Guard who have courageously and faithfully served the nation for 200 . . . — — Map (db m85229) HM |
| | Built in 1746 by Michael Dalton, later the residence of his son, Tristram Dalton, one of the first two United States Senators from Massachusetts. Here were entertained George Washington and
other distinguished men. — — Map (db m49452) HM |
| | On this site dwelt Edward Rawson, secretary of the bay colony for thirty-six years, deputy to the General Court for twelve years, elected clerk of the House of Deputies in 1645, he died in Boston 1693. — — Map (db m47984) HM |
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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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When the British Parliament in 1773 imposed a tax on tea imported into the American Colonies the act was widely resented.
In indignation tea was brought by the people to Market Square and burned.
To commemorate the incident this tablet was . . . — — Map (db m115416) HM |
| | This historic building, built as a Markethouse and Lyceum by the citizens of Newburyport in 1822, served as the Central Fire Station from the mid-1800s until 1980.
A cooperative effort by the public and private sectors has restored the structure as . . . — — Map (db m115567) HM |
| | In honor of
the proud, brave fishermen
who lost their lives at sea.
May they rest in peace.
In memory of
The Crew of F/V Lady Luck
Who were lost at sea
The night of January 31, 2007
Captain Sean P. Cone - Age 24
Crewman . . . — — Map (db m85230) HM |
| | There are 12 panels in this marker, with hundreds of names of those who served, as well as a recitation of the Gettysburg Address — — Map (db m115625) WM |
| | In memory of the soldiers of all wars
Presented by Mary A. Roat
Erected 1951 — — Map (db m85321) WM |
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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 |
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It was first shaped thousands of years ago by a huge chunk of ice which broke off a retreating glacier.
When the ice finally melted, it left a steep-sided pit that geologists call a kettle hole.
In 1645 the first settlers from England named . . . — — Map (db m115536) HM |
| | “She’s the Liverpool Packet- O Lord, let her go!”
The Dreadnought, in her ten years running in the Atlantic Packet Service, made for herself such a name that she is still remembered: “The wild boat of the Atlantic ,” As . . . — — Map (db m85299) HM |
| | To commemorate
the memory of the officers and men
who left this Memorial Hall
April 16, 1861
in answer to the first call of
Abraham Lincoln
for troops to defend the Capital
issued April 15, 1861
Capt. Albert W. Bartlett . . . — — Map (db m115617) WM |
| | Near this spot was "Watts Cellar," a landmark before the settlement of Newbury in 1635. An excavation used for the storage of fish by fishermen who visited the New England coast. — — Map (db m47985) HM |
| | 1805-1879
Garrison the Liberator
Presented by William H. Swasey July 4 1893
Side 2 I solicit no man’s praise. I fear no man’s censure. The Liberty of a People. Is the gift of God and Nature
Side 3 Neither God nor the . . . — — Map (db m84824) HM |
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(left tablet)
Reverend …
John Lowell
Thomas Cary
John Murray
Charles Milton
Christopher Bridge Marsh
Ministers of this City
Judge Theophilus Bradbury
Nicholas Pike
Timothy Palmer
”Lord” Timothy . . . — — Map (db m115614) HM WM |
| | Birthplace
of
George Peabody
February, 18, 1795
Placed by The
Peabody Historical Society
June 16, 1902 — — Map (db m36247) HM |
| | Named from a bear caught by the tide and killed in 1700. Commercial and shipbuilding center of Rockport for 160 years. First dock built here 1743. Sandy Bay Pier Company organized 1809. Site of Stone Fort and Sea Fencibles Barrack during War of 1812. — — Map (db m48007) HM |
| | Answering a sudden alarm to meet at the house of Lieutenant Benjamin Tarr, grandson of Richard Tarr the first settler, sixty-six men from this village under Captain John Rowe, marched to Charlestown and fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill. — — Map (db m73109) HM |
| | This Cannon from The
U.S.S. Constitution
"Old Ironsides" Was
Presented to the Sandy
Bay Historical Society
By Descendants of The
First Settler, Richard
Tarr, and Dedicated
August 20, 1931 — — Map (db m36255) HM |
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The Project
This is the bell from the steeple of the First Congregational Church of Rockport. It is the bell that is rung hourly by the Town Clock, still owned by the Town of Rockport. It is also rung by means of a rope and bell wheel on . . . — — Map (db m115529) HM |
| | Here stood the cabin of Richard Tarr founder of the Tarr Family on Cape Ann. He came to Marblehead in 1680, then settled in Sacco, Maine. Driven thence by Indians, he became the first settler of Sandy Bay (Rockport) in 1690. — — Map (db m48008) HM |
| | Town of Rockport
This Park Was Made Possible
by the
Generosity and Public Spirit
of
George W. Harvey
Her Native Son
1924 — — Map (db m36283) HM |
| | Here stood the first framed house in Sandy Bay (Rockport) built in 1700 by the second settler John Pool. He built the first sawmill, bridge and vessel in this settlement, and furnished the lumber used in building Long Wharf, Boston, in 1710. — — Map (db m48842) HM |
| | Original plot given by the first settler, Richard Tarr, who was buried here in 1732. Here lie most of the early settlers and many of the officers and soldiers of the French and Indian, Revolutionary and 1812 Wars. — — Map (db m48841) HM |
| | Old Stone Fort
Site of fort erected by public subscription as a protection againat British warships during the War of 1812, captured in a sneak attack and dismantled by frigate Nymphe. Ammunition gone, all nine seafencibles taken prisoner, the . . . — — Map (db m36300) HM |
| | These Our Dead In Honored Glory Rest
World War I
1917 1918
James E. Bryan R.C.A.
John A. Carlson U.S.A.
Dwight P. Dutton U.S.M.C.
Edward R. Everett U.S.A.
Harold T. Grover U.S.A.
Edward Peterson U.S.A.
World War II
1941 . . . — — Map (db m36282) HM |
| | Due east from here on July 16 1605 the Sieur De Monts sent Samuel De Champlain ashore to parley with some Indians. They danced for him and traced an outline map of Massachusetts Bay. These French explorers named this promontory, The Cape of Islands. — — Map (db m74709) HM |
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Straitsmouth Island was first sighted in 1614 by Captain John Smith. He also spotted nearby Thacher and Milk Islands and named all three the Turks' Heads.
Lighting the Way
Built in 1834, the island's first lighthouse was 19 feet . . . — — Map (db m115515) HM |
| | To the glory of God and in honor of the first settlers of Sandy Bay
The First Parish in Rockport was constituted in 1755. The corner stone of this meeting house laid in 1803. The tower was shattered by a British bombardment in 1814. . . . — — Map (db m73110) HM |
| | Town Wharves
First timber wharf built in 1743 to shelter fishing boats. In 1793 62 vessels of 5 to 10 tons were sighted in Rockport Harbor. From incorporation of Sandy Bay Pier Co. in 1811 wharves were rebuilt and extended of durable granite blocks . . . — — Map (db m36262) HM |
| | Ten rods west is the site of the first fulling mill in the English colonies, built about the year 1643 by John Pearson. — — Map (db m47953) HM |
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Near this spot, their graves unmarked, lie buried
Maximilian and Joseph Jewett
sons of
Edward and Mary (Taylor) Jewett
of Bradford England
They came over in 1638 in the Company led by
Rev. Ezekiel Rogers
which settled the . . . — — Map (db m115313) HM |
| | The burial ground set apart at the settlement of the
town of Rowley in 1639. Here
are buried Ezekiel Rogers,
Samuel Phillips, Samuel
Shepard, Edward Payson and Jedediah Jewett, the earliest
ministers of the town, and
nearly all the original . . . — — Map (db m115314) HM |
| | Rowley's tribute to her men who served in the military or naval service of the United States in the War to preserve the Union. There names appear here. Erected 1901 1861-1865
[There are three sides of engraved names] — — Map (db m97164) WM |
| | To those who served 1950 Korea 1955
There are 2 rows of names inscribed alphabetically — — Map (db m97166) WM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m97158) WM |
| | Lest we forget Vietnam 1964-1975
Followed by 2 columns of names listed alphabetically. — — Map (db m97167) WM |
| | 1917-1919 Erected by the town or Rowley in honor of the men who served their country in the World War
Followed by 3 columns of names inscribed alphabetically
Dedicated 1935 — — Map (db m97168) HM |
| | In honor and memory of those of Rowley who served in World War II 1941-1946
There are 7 columns of names inscribed. — — Map (db m97165) WM |
| | Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor of the apparatus which first transmitted speech through long lines of electrified wire lived from 1873 to 1876 in a house on this spot owned by Mrs. Mary Ann (Brown) Sanders
In these years but not chiefly in Salem . . . — — Map (db m159755) HM |
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This house was built in 1750 by
Capt. John Hodges, a West Indies
trader. In 1788, it passed to his son,
Capt. Benjamin Hodges.
Benjamin Hodges (1754 – 1806) was one of Salem’s most distinguished sea captains of the . . . — — Map (db m115326) HM |
| | The grassy strip of land extending into the harbor in front of you was once a busy commercial wharf. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, cargoes from around the world were unloaded on the wharf and stored in warehouses until they were sold.
Central . . . — — Map (db m86465) HM |
| | The grassy strip of land extending into the harbor in front of you was once a busy commercial wharf. In the late 1700’s and early 1800s, trade goods from around the world were loaded, unloaded and stored here.
Build in 1784, Central Wharf was . . . — — Map (db m86467) HM |
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The Derby House is the oldest brick house still standing in Salem, and one of the finest examples of Georgian colonial architecture in the United States.
Merchant and fleet-owner Richard Derby built the house in 1762 as a wedding present for . . . — — Map (db m62546) HM |
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The wharf in front of you was Salem’s longest, and was once one of the busiest in the nation. During the War of Independence, American privateers sailed from here to prey on British ships on the high seas. After the war, fleets of trading vessels . . . — — Map (db m86544) HM |
| | The wharf in front of you was Salem’s longest, and was once one of the busiest in the nation. The first 800 feet of the wharf was begun in 1762 and completed about 1770 by Capt. Richard Derby, Sr. (1712-1783), one of the wealthiest merchants in . . . — — Map (db m86545) HM |
| | Dedicated to the citizens of Essex County who served in the United States Armed Forces
The Revere Bell 1801 — — Map (db m97349) WM |
| | In the Revolution the first armed resistance to the Royal authority was made at this bridge 26 Feb. 1775 by the people of Salem. The advance of 300 British troops, led by Lt. Col. Leslie and sent by Gen. Gage to seize munitions of war, was here . . . — — Map (db m48471) HM WM |
| | At 1:37 PM on June 25th, 1914, Box 48 was pulled for a fire in the Korn Leather Factory on this site at number 57 Boston Street in an area known as Blubber Hollow, followed at 1:41 PM by a general alarm.
This was the start of the Great Salem . . . — — Map (db m103628) HM |
| | In commemoration of the enterprise and resolute spirit with which Salem arose from her ashes looked calamity in the face and rebuilt her walls on this spot in the pathway of the great fire of June 25, 1914. Which swept from the west to the water’s . . . — — Map (db m97366) HM |
| | This house was built about 1811 for Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 1772-1851, member of Congress and Secretary of the Navy under Madison and Monroe.
Here was born William Crowninshield Endicott, 1826-1900, Justice of our Supreme Judicial Court and . . . — — Map (db m155203) HM |
| | This house, formerly located at 10 Liberty Street, was once the home of Mormon pioneer and local church leader Nathaniel Henry Felt (1816-1887).
Born and raised in Salem, Nathaniel and his brother John ran a tailoring business at 217 Essex . . . — — Map (db m33724) HM |
| | A memorial to the boys of the Immaculate Conception Parish who served their country in the World War — — Map (db m97350) WM |
| | Here, in defiance of King George III, local minutemen hid 17 cannons, and were confronted by 300 British troops under command of Colonel Leslie. The Redcoats were routed, with only Joseph Whicher of Salem being wounded. This was the first open . . . — — Map (db m47991) HM |
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In this building on February 12, 1877
Alexander Graham Bell
presented the first public demonstration
of long distance telephone conversations.
Following the demonstration the first
news dispatch sent by telephone originated
. . . — — Map (db m115324) HM |
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The modest house in front of you is one of the oldest in Salem. Built here in 1672, the Narbonne House is also one of America’s few surviving middle-class homes of the 1600s.
The builder and first owner was a”slaughterer,” or . . . — — Map (db m62543) HM |
| | For decades, the main attraction on the line was the Willows Pavilion. This unusual looking structure boasted a roller skating rink and a 300-seat, second-floor restaurant. In the rear tower, a camera obscura projected scenes from the surrounding . . . — — Map (db m85995) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m85822) HM |
| | Elias Hasket Derby, Salem’s prosperous ship-owner, and his bride Elizabeth Crowinshield began their married life in the brick house behind you in 1762. Seven children later, in 1780, Derby began building a much larger structure on the site in front . . . — — Map (db m62549) HM |
| | “I was a means, through grace assisting me, to stop the flight of those few that then were here with me, and that by my utter denial to go away with them, who would have gone either for England, or mostly for Virginia.” — — Map (db m17985) HM |
| | The first congregation of the Church of England gathered in Salem in 1626. Driven underground by the puritans, it re-emerged in 1733 as Saint Peter's Parish, built on land given by Philip English, one of the accused Salem witches. Just before the . . . — — Map (db m47989) HM |
| | If Salem was once a prosperous world seaport, it was not due to the geography of the harbor, but to the enterprise of her mariners, tradesmen, and merchants. Unlike other major ports such as New York, Salem Harbor had no major river to link it . . . — — Map (db m86540) HM |
| | If Salem was once a prosperous world seaport, it was not due to the geography of the harbor, but to the enterprise of her seamen, tradesmen, and merchants.
Unlike other major ports such as New York, Salem Harbor had no major river to link it . . . — — Map (db m86541) HM |
| | Welcome to Salem Maritime National Historic Site. The site was established in 1938 to preserve the wharves and historic buildings associated with Salem's contributions to the economic development of the young United States.
From its founding in . . . — — Map (db m86459) HM |
| | Salem Maritime National Historic Site-Welcome to Salem Maritime National Historic Site, a unit of the National Park System. Since 1938, this park has preserved the wharves and historic buildings associated with Salem’s prosperous years of overseas . . . — — Map (db m86463) HM |
| | Salem Willows is named for the European white willow trees planted here in 1801 to form a shaded walk for patients convalescing at the old smallpox hospital. Later the area became a park. During the first half of the 20th century Restaurant Row on . . . — — Map (db m85992) HM |
| | Salem Willows Park is truly one of the city’s treasures. The 35-acre waterfront site, located at the tip of the Salem peninsula, is named for the European white willow trees that were planted in 1801 for the benefit of patients at the nearby . . . — — Map (db m86190) HM |
| | There are three sides of inscription:
Time will not dim the glory of their deeds
Then a panel that says Erected by Laurier Associates and dedicated to the 2105 volunteers of St. Joseph Parish — — Map (db m97367) WM |
| | Here are buried
Captain Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
Governor Simon Bradstreet
Reverend John Higginson
Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde
Justice John Hathorne
of the Witchcraft Court — — Map (db m51923) HM |
| | Inside this impressive building were the offices of the United States Customs Service collectors, inspectors, and other officials. It was here that ship’s captains and owners paid duties on imported goods, ordinarily about 5% of their value. . . . — — Map (db m23857) HM |
| | Inside this impressive building were the offices of the United States Customs Service collectors, inspectors, and other officials. It was here that ship’s captains and owners paid duties on imported goods and conducted other business.
Before . . . — — Map (db m86927) HM |
| | Here stood from 1634 until 1673
The First Meeting House
erected in Salem.
No structure was built earlier
for congregational worship
by a church formed in America.
It was occupied
for secular as well as religious uses.
In it . . . — — Map (db m85825) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m17987) HM |
| | The Pedrick Store House, originally located on Marblehead Harbor, was built by Marblehead merchant Thomas Pedrick (1736-1802) in about 1770. It was first used as a store house for salt and goods from the cod fish trade, with a sail loft on the . . . — — Map (db m86521) HM |
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Salem's Point neighborhood was originally known as Stage Point for wooden fish-drying “stages” along the peninsula.
Stage Point was a center for Salem’s early maritime business, and key to her historic economic development.
. . . — — Map (db m115319) HM |
| | In 1692, nearly two hundred people in the Salem area were accused of witchcraft, then considered a crime. Twenty of the accused were tried and executed – victims of fear, superstition, and a court system that failed to protect them.
This . . . — — Map (db m85901) HM |
| | Three rods west of this spot
stood, from 1718 until 1785,
The Town House.
Here Governor Burnet convened
The General Court in 1728 and 1729,
a Town Meeting held here in 1765
protested against The Stamp Act,
and another in 1769, . . . — — Map (db m85899) HM |
| | Here stood the Salem gaol
built in 1684, used until 1813
razed in 1957
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During the witchcraft
persecution of 1692, many
of the accused were
imprisoned here. One of
them, the aged Giles
Cory (b. 1611), was pressed
to . . . — — Map (db m85900) HM |
| | In the late 1700s and early 1800s Salem’s ships reached out to the world. From this wharf alone between 1785 and 1799, shipowner Elias Hasket Derby dispatched 170 trading vessels on pioneering voyages to China, India, the East Indies, and the . . . — — Map (db m86538) HM |
| | Dedicated to those who died in the service of their country
2 columns of names for World War II
2 Columns of names for Korea
2 columns of names for Vietnam
1 column for Iraq
1 column for Afghanistan — — Map (db m97383) HM |
| | If you visited Salem’s waterfront in the late 1700s or early 1800s you would have been impressed not only by the ships and their exotic cargo, but also by the variety of artisans and craftsmen who worked on the wharf. Sail makers, riggers, rope . . . — — Map (db m86536) HM |
| | Not until the later 1800s did we have photographs of sailing vessels berthed along wharves here, but by then we had declined as a world port. The shallow harbor could not accommodate the clipper ships and larger vessels that dominated the seas after . . . — — Map (db m62541) HM |
| | Roll of honor 1917-1918
Then two rows of names
World War I
Donated by the city of Salem Rededicated by Mayor Anthony V. Salvo November 11, 1986 — — Map (db m97368) WM |
| | Site of the first meetinghouse built
on the open green in 1640. The bell, hung in 1642, is said to have been brought from England by order of the Reverend William Worcester, who settled here in 1639. — — Map (db m48121) HM |
| | Near by stood the house built in 1639 by Robert Pike, a leader in civil and military affairs who represented Salisbury for thirty-seven years in the general court. — — Map (db m75590) HM |
| | Early name Colchester settled in 1638. Name changed to Salisbury in 1640 in compliment to its Puritan clergyman William Worcester of Salisbury, England. — — Map (db m77223) HM |
| | Adam Hawkes, the first white settler in Saugus, built on this site about 1630. President John Adams was his great-grandson. — — Map (db m48116) HM |
| | In 1687 Major Appleton of Ipswich made a speech on this rock denouncing the tyranny of the Royal Governor, Sir Edmund Andros. A watch was stationed on the hill to give warning of any approach of the Crown Officers. — — Map (db m48112) HM |
| | A ringing anvil and glowing forge were signals that the blacksmith was working. The skill, stamina, and strength of the blacksmith played an important role in constructing machinery and maintaining the ironworkers' equipment. Using simple tools and . . . — — Map (db m86452) HM |
| | "The Company of Undertakers for the Iron Works," consisting of English gentlemen and colonists, erected a furnace on this site in 1643. Joseph Jenks, their employe, built a forge here in 1647, invented the modern type of scythe, and built Boston's . . . — — Map (db m48222) HM |
| | Ore, charcoal and rock called gabbro for flux were hauled to this site, and a drying fire was started in the furnace. Within a day or two the water wheels and bellows were set in motion, and the “blast”, once begun, would burn . . . — — Map (db m86192) HM |
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