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14000972 [1] Added to NRHP. December 2, 2014. The Point Neighborhood Historic District, also known as Stage Point, is a predominantly residential historic district just south of downtown Salem, Massachusetts. It is a densely built, roughly rectangular grid of streets east of Lafayette Street, south of the South River, west of Congress Street ...
Salem Country Club. Salem Country Club is a private country club in Peabody, Massachusetts. The club's early history was unstable. In the late 19th- and early 20th century, the club moved between four locations in Salem and Peabody. In 1925, the club made its final move to western Peabody converting a territory called Sanders Farm into an 18 ...
Byfield, Massachusetts. Coordinates: 42°45′35″N 70°56′53″W. Methodist church in central Byfield. Gov. William Dummer House in 1905. Byfield is a village (also referred to as a "parish") in the town of Newbury, in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It borders West Newbury, Georgetown, and Rowley. It is located approximately 30 ...
Thomas, George, Richard, John, Sarah, Samuel, Joseph, Miriam, Seeth. Thomas Gardner [a] (c. 1592 – 1674) was an Overseer of the "old planters" party of the Dorchester Company who landed in 1624 at Cape Ann to form a colony at what is now known as Gloucester. Gardner is considered by some to have been the first Governor of Massachusetts, due ...
November 7, 1973. Designated CP. May 12, 1976. The Joseph Story House is a historic house facing the Salem Common in Salem, Massachusetts. Built in 1811, this house was home from then until his death of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Joseph Story (1779–1845), a leading jurist of the time, and an influential figure in the early ...
Veterans Memorial Bridge, also called the Beverly-Salem Bridge, is a fixed-span roadway crossing of the Danvers River carrying Massachusetts Route 1A between Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts. It opened in 1997, replacing a previous historic steel bridge at the same location. History The bridge under construction in 1995
Gedney family. The Gedneys were among the original settlers of Salem, Massachusetts. The family patriarch, John Gedney (originally of Norwich), sailed in 1636 out of Yarmouth, England on the Mary Anne. One of his sons, Bartholomew, was one of the judges who presided over the infamous witch trials. [1] Bartholomew's brother, Eleazor (Eleazar ...
Elizabeth Jackson Howe was born 14 May 1637 near Rowley, Yorkshire, the daughter of William and Joanne Jackson. Elizabeth married James Howe on 13 April 1658 in Ipswich, MA; the couple had six children, and resided in Topsfield, Massachusetts . Topsfield was a Puritan community. They were a deeply pious society, with an extreme religious focus ...