Ipswich town historian Gordon Harris
This site is produced by Gordon Harris, town historian for Ipswich, Massachusetts, a member of the Ipswich Historical Commission, with support from Kerrie Bates through the Ipswich Department of ReCreation and Culture.
Contacts:
- Kerrie Bates, Visitor Center and ReCreation Department: kerrieb@ipswich-ma.gov
- Gordon Harris, Town historian: historicipswich@gmail.com
- Ipswich Historical Commission:
- historicipswich@gmail.com
- (We are not affiliated with the Ipswich Museum, formerly known as the Ipswich Historical Society.)
Acknowledgements
- Thomas Franklin Waters: Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Vol. 1
- Thomas Franklin Waters: Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Vol. 2
- Joseph Felt: History of Ipswich, Essex and Hamilton
- Harold Bowen: Tales of Olde Ipswich
- Bill Varrell: Ipswich and Ipswich Revisited
- Margaret E. Welden, Ipswich Historical Commission, MACRIS site
- Alice Keenan, Ipswich Yesterday
- Al Boynton (provides URL)
- William J. Barton
- Melissa Berry
- Helen Breen
- Susan Howard Boice
- Harold Bowen
- Prudence Fish
- John Fiske
- Paul McGinley
- Barbara Forster
- Alice Keenan
- Gavin Keenan
- Bruce Laing
- Mary Ellen Lepionka
- Charlotte Lindgren
- Alan Pearsall
- Beverly Perna
- Sam Sherman
- Nancy Weare
- Dozens of books about Ipswich available online
- Something to Preserve
- Town Reports, 1880 – 2014
- Ancient Records of the Town of Ipswich
Image Credits
Photos are courtesy of:
- Johanne Casia, for the Ipswich Historical Commission
- The MACRIS site
- The Ipswich Patriot Properties assessors database
- Paul Damon
- Gordon Harris
- Sharon Scarlata
- William Skelton
- Elizabeth Sotis
- David “Stoney” Stone
- Susan Stone
- Irene Van Schyndel
Glass plate negatives were generously provided to this site and the Ipswich Museum by William Barton, Jean Engel and Robert Cronin, developed by David Stone and Gordon Harris. Many of the early images on this site are from the photographs of:
Other acknowledgments are provided on individual pages. You may share photographs and/or text, as long as you provide acknowledgement and a link to the page on this site where it located.
Archived Posts and Pages
Pages
- Historic Ipswich
- 1 High Street, the Nathaniel Rogers Old Manse (1727)
- 1 Highland Avenue, the Wainwright School (1890)
- 1 Lords Square, Payne School (1802)
- 1 Manning Street, the E.H. Martin house (1880)
- 1 Meeting House Green, the First Congregational Church (1971)
- 1 Old England Road, Moritz B. Philipp and Jane Peterson estate (1885)
- 1 Poplar Street, the Lathrop house (1912)
- 1 Scotton’s Lane, the Choate-Scotton house (c 1863)
- 1 South Green, the Captain John Whipple House (1677)
- 1 Turkey Shore Road, the Burnham-Patch-Day house (1730)
- 10 Brown Square, Tedfords Lumber (est. 1946)
- 10 Brown Street, Essex Hosiery Company worker housing (c 1900)
- 10 County Street, the Dennis – Dodge House (1740)
- 10 East Street, the Nathaniel Harris house (1819)
- 10 Hammatt St., the old South Church Vestry (1857)
- 10 Summer Street, the Charles C. Cotton House (1841)
- 10 Washington St., the Mary Holmes – Captain John Lord house (b. 1770)
- 10 Woods Lane, the Edward and Eliza Plouff house (1837)
- 100 High Street, the Joseph Fowler house (1720 – 1756)
- 102 County Road, the Rowell-Homans house (c 1865)
- 103 High Street, the William Merchant house (1670)
- 104 High Street, the John Kimball house (1715)
- 106 High St. the Caleb Kimball house (1715)
- 107 Argilla Road, Argilla Farm (1785)
- 107 Central Street, the Collins house (c 1880)
- 108 Central Street, the George W. Baker house (1872)
- 108 High St., the Dow-Harris house (1735)
- 11 County Street, the Bennett – Caldwell house (1725)
- 11 Depot Square, Russell’s Lunch (circa 1900)
- 11 Liberty Street, the Levi Howe house (c 1870)
- 11 South Village Green, the Gables (1838)
- 11 Summer Street, the Nathaniel Hovey house (1718)
- 11 Topsfield Road, the Jacob and William G. Brown house (b 1832)
- 11 Waldingfield Road, “Applefield,” the Oliver Appleton Farm (1759 and earlier)
- 11 Warren Street, the Old Warren Fire House and School (1884)
- 11 Woods Lane, the Merrifield house (1792)
- 110 Argilla Road, the Hamlin Reservation
- 110 High Street, the John Kimball Jr. house (1730)
- 112 High Street, Timothy Ross house, 1840
- 114 High Street, the Tibbets-Fowler house (1860)
- 114 Topsfield Road, the Goodhue – Adams house (1763)
- 115 High Street, the Baker – Sutton house (1725)
- 116 High Street, the Samuel Rutherford house (1860)
- 117 County Road, the Hellenic Center (1904)
- 117 High Street, Brown’s Manor (1886)
- 118 High Street, the Aaron Rutherford house (1860)
- 12 Argilla Road, the Norman J. Bolles house (c 1900)
- 12 Green Street, the Andrew Burley house (1688)
- 12 High Street, the William Russell House (1890)
- 12 Market Street, the Abraham Wait house (1832)
- 12 Meeting House Green, the First Church Meeting House (1832)
- 12 North Main Street, Treadwell’s Inn (1737)
- 12 Summer Street, the Moses Harris house (1848)
- 12 Warren Street, the Albert P. Hills house (1700)
- 12 Washington Street, the Patrick Riley house (1880)
- 12 Water Street, the Glazier – Sweet house (1728)
- 124 High Street, the Joseph King house (1856)
- 126 County Road, Cable Hospital (1917)
- 126 High Street, Burnham’s Antiques (c 1920)
- 13 Argilla Road, Thomas and Elizabeth Brown house (c 1844)
- 13 East St., Ignatius Dodge – F. Lord house (1856)
- 13 High Street, the Joseph Willcomb house (1669)
- 13 Spring Street, the George V. Millett house (1886)
- 13 Summer Street, the Daniel Clark house (1872)
- 130 Topsfield Road, the Robert Wallis house (1703)
- 14 Candlewood Road, the Joseph Brown and Elizabeth Perkins house (1779)
- 14 East Street, the Baker – Newman house (1725)
- 14 High Street, the George Lord house (1857)
- 14 Liberty Street, the George B. Brown house (1898)
- 14 Summer St., the Ezra Lord House (c 1850)
- 15 Argilla Road, the George Dexter house (1893)
- 15 County Street, the Rev. Levi Frisbie house (1788)
- 15 East Street: Dawson’s Bakery; James and Louise Glover house (c 1870)
- 15 South Main Street, the Caldwell Block (1870)
- 15 Summer Street, the Jonathan Pulcifer house (1718)
- 153 Argilla Road, the Isaac Goodale House (1670)
- 155 Argilla Road, Asa P. Stone house (b. 1839)
- 16 County Street, the Abraham Knowlton house (1726)
- 16 East Street, the Lakeman-Johnson house (c 1840)
- 16 Elm Street, the Baker – Tozer house (1835)
- 16 Elm Street, Within These Walls
- 16 Fellows Road, the Ruth Fellows house (1714)
- 16 High Street, the Jacob Manning house (1818)
- 16 Maple Avenue, the William H. Bodwell house, 1890
- 16 Mineral Street, Wise Saddle Shop (1801)
- 16 North Main Street, the Stephen Coburn house (1845)
- 16 Summer Street, the Nathaniel Treadwell house (c 1850)
- 16 Topsfield Road, the Joseph Peatfield house and nursery (1877)
- 16 Washington Street, the Patrick Riley house (c 1865)
- 164 Argilla Rd. the Francis Cogswell homestead, 1743
- 166 Linebrook Road,The William Lummus house (before 1832)
- 168 Argilla Road, the Tilton-Smith house (c 1720)
- 17 Argilla Road, the Samuel Wade – S. F. Canney house (1845)
- 17 County Street, Daniels Shoe Factory (1843)
- 17 High Street, the Thomas Lord house (1658)
- 17 Mineral Street, c 1885; Baxter-Adamowicz house
- 17 Spring Street, the David Dow house, 1857
- 17 Summer St., the William and Margaret Chapman house (after 1832)
- 17 Turkey Shore Road, the John Edward Norman house (1895)
- 173 Linebrook Road, the Kozeneski farm house (c 1900)
- 175 County Road, the William Manning house (1820)
- 178 Argilla Road, the Stephen Smith house (1742)
- 17th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 18 East Street, the Baker-Dodge house (1727)
- 18 Green Street, the Isaac Stanwood – Joanna Caldwell House (1812)
- 18 Hammatt Street, the Ipswich gas generator building (1877-2018)
- 18 North Main Street, the Charles Kimball house (1834)
- 18 Washington Street, Sanford Peatfield House (1860)
- 188 Argilla Road, the Oliver Cogswell house, 1815
- 18th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 19 High Street, the John Blake house (1885)
- 19 North Main Street, Thomas Manning house (1799)
- 19 Putnam Rd., the Lezon home (c 1910)
- 19 Summer Street, the Solomon Lakeman house (before 1745)
- 197 County Rd.,”Applegate” (1875)
- 19th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Period Houses in Ipswich Massachusetts
- 2 Brewery Place (Brown Square) Ipswich Ale Brewery (c 1900)
- 2 Central Street, the Tyler Building (1906)
- 2 East Street, the Robert Jordan house (1863)
- 2 Green Street, the John Perkins house (1860)
- 2 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Merrill-Kimball house (1839)
- 2 Labor in Vain Road, the McMahon house (b 1856)
- 2 Meeting House Green, the Joseph N. Farley house (1842)
- 2 Mill Road, the Sullivan house (c 1890)
- 2 North Main Street, the John Appleton house (1707)
- 2 Old England Road, the Captain Treadwell house (1748)
- 2 Poplar Street, Swasey Tavern (1718)
- 2 Putnam Rd.
- 2 Turkey Shore, the Heard – Lakeman House (1776)
- 20 Market Street, the Stacey-Ross house (1734)
- 207 Argilla Rd., the Mary Lord -Sidney Shurcliff house (1902 -1935)
- 208 Topsfield Road, the Joseph and Judah Goodhue house (1767)
- 20th Century houses and buildings in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 21 East Street, the George Russell house (c 1870)
- 21 High Street, the Haskell – Lord house (c 1750)
- 21 Lakemans Lane, the John Manning Farm (c 1825)
- 21 North Main Street, the Theodore Cogswell house (1880)
- 21 Spring Street, the G. F. Swain summer estate (b 1910)
- 217 Argilla Road, the Townsend house
- 219 County Rd., Samuel Appleton “Old House” (1794)
- 22 East Street, the Moses Fellows House (1873)
- 22 Elm St. (1840)
- 22 Elm Street (1840)
- 22 Mineral Street, the Ephraim Harris House (1696, alt. 1835)
- 22 North Main Street, the Colonial Building (1904)
- 23 East Street (c 1860)
- 232 Argilla Road, the Patch-Brown-Crockett house (c 1760-85)
- 24 Fellows Road, the Fellows – Appleton House (b 1856)
- 24 High Street, the J.W. Gould House (b 1850)
- 24 Market Street, the Aaron Jewett house (c 1800)
- 24 Summer Street, the William E. Barton house (1885)
- 24 Topsfield Road, the Moses Kimball house (1688)
- 240 County Road, the Proctor Estate, New England Biolabs (1895)
- 248 High Street, the William Spiller house (b 1850)
- 25 County Street, the J. Caldwell house (c 1860)
- 25 East St, the Stanwood-Willcomb house (1830)
- 25 Market Street, the Nathaniel R. Farley Shoe Factory (1830-56)
- 25 North Main Street, the Ipswich Public Library
- 251 Topsfield Road, Turner Hill (1900)
- 26 County Street, the John M. Dunnels house (1867)
- 26 East Street, the Staniford – Polly Dole -John Updike house (1687-1720)
- 26 High Street, the Philip Call house (1659)
- 26 Manning Street, the Sullivan house (1927)
- 26 North Main Street, the Agawam House (1806)
- 27 East Street, the Widow Elizabeth Caldwell house (1740-1755)
- 27 High Street, the Edward Brown House (1650)
- 27 Kimball Avenue Tudor Revival (1945)
- 27 Lakeman’s Lane, the Benjamin Fellows house (1719)
- 27 Market Street, the Ipswich Post Office (1939)
- 27 Northgate Road, the Asa Stone Barn (1839)
- 27 Summer Street, the Thomas Knowlton house (1688)
- 28 Topsfield Road, Sacred Heart Church (1903)
- 28 Water Street, the Harris – Stanwood House (1696)
- 280 Argilla Road, the Inn at Castle Hill (1860)
- 280 High Street, the Charles and Fostina Guilford house (1880)
- 285 High Street, the Daniel Nourse house (1809)
- 29 High Street, the Daniel Brown Smith house (1819)
- 29 Labor in Vain Rd., the Isaac Foss house (c 1900)
- 29 North Main Street, the Odd Fellows Building (1817)
- 29 Woods Lane, A.L.R. Mahoney house (c 1900)
- 290 High Street, the Jacob Pickard house, (1812)
- 290 Linebrook Rd. the Chapman-Small House
- 296 High Street, the Oliver Bailey house (1831)
- 297 Linebrook Road, the Joseph Chapman house (1720)
- 3 County Street, the William Treadwell house (1850)
- 3 East Street, the James W. Perkins house and Provisions (1860)
- 3 High Street, the John Gaines house (1725)
- 3 Hovey Street, the John Kendrick house (1665)
- 3 Loney’s Lane, the Aaron Day Wells house (c 1850)
- 3 Maple Avenue, the Harland and Blanche Burke house (1916)
- 3 Newbury Road, the Philomen Foster house and barn (1787)
- 3 Short Street, the Short Street Store (1884)
- 3 Spring Street, the James Scott house (1840)
- 3 Summer Street, the Benjamin Kimball house (c 1720, alt. 1803)
- 30 East Street, the Jordan – Snelling – Potter house (c 1708)
- 30 Green Street, the Ipswich Town Hall (1935)
- 30 High Street, the Joseph Bolles house (1722)
- 30 Jeffreys Neck Road, The Searle estate (1910)
- 30 South Main Street, the Old Town Hall (1833)
- 30 Summer Street, the Smith-Barton house (moved 1880)
- 306 Linebrook Road, the Deacon William Foster Conant house (1833)
- 307 High Street, the Moses Jewett house (1759)
- 31 County Street, Ascension Memorial Episcopal Church (1875)
- 31 Fox Creek Road, Bennett’s Farm (1680)
- 31 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Nathaniel Scott house (1838)
- 31 North Main Street, the Methodist Church (1859)
- 31 South Main Street, the Joseph Manning house (1727)
- 31 Summer Street, the Bartlett house (c 1870)
- 31 Washington St., the Laffy – Chapman – Morrill house (c 1880)
- 310 High Street, the Stephen Pearson house (1808)
- 311 High Street, the Amos Jewett house (1834)
- 315 High Street, the Apphia Jewett house (1834)
- 315 Linebrook Road, the William Conant house (1777)
- 316 Linebrook Road, the John Peabody house (1850)
- 317 High Street, the Capt. George Washington Howe house (1850)
- 32 Washington Street, the Frederick Bray – Daniel Nourse House (c 1870)
- 32 Water Street, the Jabesh Sweet house (1713)
- 320 High Street, the Jonathan Crowell Fox heel factory (1888)
- 320 Linebrook Rd., the Daniel Conant house (1875)
- 321 High Street, the Aaron Jewett – Mark Cate house (1780)
- 327 High Street, the Annie Donovan house (1873, reconstructed 1915)
- 33 Central Street, Memorial Hall (1921)
- 33 East St., the Old Store (1830)
- 33 High Street, the John and Sarah Dillingham Caldwell house (1660)
- 33 Mineral Street, the Caroline Norman house, 1884 (moved from Central St.)
- 33 North Main Street, the Nathaniel Wait house (1865)
- 34 High Street, the White Horse Inn (1659 / 1763)
- 34 Mitchell Road, the Mitchell Farm (1800)
- 34 North Main Street, the William Pulcifer house (1836)
- 341 Linebrook Road, the Lot Conant house (1717)
- 347 Linebrook Road, the Foster-Conant house (1840)
- 35 East Street, the Luther Wait house (1810)
- 35 Mill Road, the Captain William Warner house (1780)
- 36 Candlewood Road, the Martin Keith house (1807, moved 1995)
- 36 North Main Street, the John Manning house (1769)
- 36 South Main St., the Hall-Haskell House (Ipswich Visitor Center), 1820
- 36 Summer Street, the John Brocklebank house (1856)
- 36 Water Street, the York – Averill House (1715)
- 37 East Street, the Stephen Baker house (1834)
- 37 High Street, Lord – Baker House (1720)
- 37 South Main Street, Baker’s Store (b. 1828)
- 37 Summer Street, the William H. Jewett house (b 1872)
- 37 Washington Street, the Brown-Grossman-Doucette house (1884)
- 375 Linebrook Rd., the Thomas Foster house (1800)
- 38 Central Street, the Measures building (c 1900)
- 38 East Street, the John Harris house (1742)
- 38 High Street, the Joseph N. Caldwell house (c 1875)
- 38 North Main Street, the Old Post Office (1763)
- 38 Summer Street, the William M. and Jennie Ellsworth house (1881)
- 387 Linebrook Road, Perley Farm (1880)
- 39 – 41 High Street, the Daniel Lummus house (1686)
- 39 Summer Street, the Foster – Grant house (1717)
- 391 Linebrook Road, Linebrook Parish Church (1848)
- 392 Linebrook Road, the Emerson Howe house (1810)
- 393 Linebrook Rd., the David Tullar Perley house (1851)
- 395 Linebrook Rd., the Alvin T. Guilford house (1835)
- 4 East St., the old Methodist Parsonage, 1830
- 4 Elm Street, Condon’s Grocery
- 4 Green Street, the William H. Graves house (1852)
- 4 Lords Square, Old Fire House (c 1870)
- 4 Maple Avenue, the Arthur H. and Madeline H. Tozer house (1915)
- 4 Mount Pleasant Ave., the William Mayes building, c 1890
- 4 Old Right Road, the Tenney house, c1900
- 4 Water Street, the Jewett house (1849)
- 4-6 Summer Street, the Cotton-Nourse house (1840)
- 40 High Street, the William Caldwell House (1733)
- 40 North Main Street, the Captain Brewer house (1825)
- 40 Summer Street, the Denison Rust house (b 1872)
- 402 Linebrook Rd. (1929)
- 403 Linebrook Road, the Timothy Morse house (1817)
- 41 Candlewood Road, the Boardman house (c 1730)
- 41 Linebrook Road, Old Cross Farm (c 1717)
- 41 Turkey Shore Road, the Howard – Arthur Wesley Dow House (1680)
- 41 Washington Street, the George Brown house (1883)
- 41-47 South Main St., R. W. Davis dealership, 1930
- 411 Linebrook Rd. (1938)
- 419 Linebrook Rd., the Eliza Howe Perley house (1840)
- 42 East Street, the Joseph Hovey house (1850)
- 42 Heartbreak Road, the Thomas and John Low house (before 1684)
- 42 High Street, the Abner Harris house (c 1800)
- 42 Labor in Vain Road, the Arthur L. Sweetser house (c. 1898)
- 42 North Main Street, the John Johnson house (1871)
- 421 Linebrook Road, the Abraham Howe barn (1725)
- 43 Argilla Road, the Giddings – Burnham house (b 1667)
- 43 High Street, the Fitts- Manning-Tyler house (1767)
- 43 Summer Street, the Wilcomb-Pinder house (1718)
- 437 Linebrook Road, the John, Silas and Allen Perley house (1784)
- 44 East Street, the John Roberts house (c 1870)
- 44 Fellows Road, the Joseph Fellows Jr. house (1734)
- 44 High Street, the Francis Goodhue house (1745 / 1780)
- 44 Mill Road, Holiday Hill, The William and Violet Thayer house (1897)
- 44 North Main Street, the Harry K. Dodge house (1886)
- 45 County Street, the Amos Dunnels house (1823)
- 45 Heartbreak Road, the James Burnham house (1690)
- 45 High Street, the John Lummus house (1712)
- 45 North Main Street, the Isaac Flitchner house (1860)
- 46 N. Main Street, the James Damon house (1866)
- 46 Summer Street, the James Foster house (1720)
- 46 Washington Street, the James S. Marble- James Peatfield house (1860)
- 47 County Street, the Benjamin Grant house (1723)
- 47 Jeffreys Neck Rd., the Dodge house, Greenwood Farm (1870)
- 47 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Paine house (1694)
- 47 North Main Street, the George Farley House (1888)
- 48 East St., the Tyler Caldwell house (1860)
- 48 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Hannah Aspell house, 1854
- 48 Market Street, the Bailey house (c 1887)
- 48 North Main Street, the Thomas Morley house (c 1750, alt. 1845)
- 48 Summer St., the Alonzo and Abbie Butler house, (1868)
- 48 Turkey Shore Road, the Nathaniel Hodgkins house (c 1720)
- 49 Candlewood Road, the Robert Kinsman house (b 1714)
- 49 North Main Street, the John Chapman house (1770)
- 49 Turkey Shore Road, the Austin Measures house (1874)
- 5 County Street, the Richard Rindge house (1718)
- 5 Hemlock Drive: Fairview, the Charles Campbell estate (1900)
- 5 Linebrook Rd., The Lord-Dorr-Woodbury house (c 1850)
- 5 Maple Avenue, the G. Baxter – Frank Campbell house (1890)
- 5 Spring Street, the Henderson house (1770)
- 5 Summer Street, the Widow Fuller house (1725)
- 5 Wildes Court, the James H. and Frances Lakeman house (circa 1900)
- 5-7 Poplar Street, the Dr. John Calef house (1671)
- 50 Argilla Road, the Burnham-Andrews house (1815)
- 50 Mill Road, the Caleb Warner house (1734)
- 50 North Main Street, the James Brown house (1700 / 1721)
- 51 Linebrook Road, the Hart House (1678)
- 51 North Main Street, the Sarah Lord house (1849)
- 52 High Street, the Henry Kingsbury – Robert Lord house (1660)
- 52 Jeffreys Neck Road, Ross Tavern – Lord Collins house (c 1690)
- 52 Jeffreys Neck Road, Shatswell Planters Cottage (c 1646)
- 52 N. Main Street, the Treadwell – Hale house (1799)
- 53 Argilla Road, the Samuel Kinsman house (1750-77)
- 55 Central Street, Central Fire Station (1907)
- 55 Waldingfield Rd., “Waldingfield” (1916)
- 56 Fellows Road, the Josiah Brown house, (1812)
- 56 Market Street, the Lord-Sullivan-Haskell house (1847)
- 56 N. Main St., the Dodge and Spiller Grocery (c 1850)
- 56 Washington Street, the Ephraim Goodhue House (1875)
- 57 High Street, the Stone – Rust – Abraham Lummus house (c 1750)
- 57 North Main Street, the Day-Dodge House (1696-1737)
- 57 South Main Street, Ipswich Mills boarding house (1876)
- 57 South Village Green, the Aaron Smith house (1776)
- 58 North Main Street, the Captain Richard Rogers House (1728)
- 59 Candlewood Road, the Jeremiah Kinsman house (1752)
- 59 East Street, the Daniel Ringe house (1719)
- 59 South Main Street, the Philomen Dean house (Old Lace Factory) (1716)
- 59 Turkey Shore Road, the Elizabeth and Otis Glover house (c 1870)
- 59 Washington Street, the Charles W. Bamford house (C 1887)
- 6 Agawam Avenue, the Augustine Carey – Captain John Hobbs house (1855)
- 6 East Street, the Daniel Russell house (1818)
- 6 High Street, the Joseph Ross house (1884)
- 6 Hovey Street, the Benjamin Ellsworth house (b 1856)
- 6 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Oliver L. Sanborn house (1855)
- 6 Manning Street, the H. K. Damon house (1890)
- 6 Meetinghouse Green, the Captain Israel Pulcifer house (1812)
- 6 Newbury Road, the Joseph B. Perley house (1865)
- 6 South Main Street, the Shoreborne Wilson – Samuel Appleton house (1685)
- 6 Water Street, the Reginald Foster house (1690)
- 6-8 Maple Ave., the George Tozier house (circa 1890)
- 61 High Street, the Timothy B. Ross house, c 1870
- 61 Market Street, formerly the Damon Block (1982)
- 61 Turnpike Road, the John Foster house (1780)
- 62 East Street, the Treadwell-Wainwright House (1727)
- 63 Turkey Shore Road, the Isaac Foss house (1870)
- 65 Candlewood Road, the Rhoda Kinsman house (b 1776)
- 65 Waldingfield Road, Sunswick (1890)
- 66 Argilla Road, the George Haskell house (1855)
- 66 County Road, the Southside Store (1835)
- 66 High Street, the John Harris-Mark Jewett house (1795)
- 67 Turkey Shore Road, the Stephen Boardman house (1720)
- 68 County Road, Calvin Locke’s Folly (1836)
- 68 High Street, the Wood – Lord house (c 1740)
- 68 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Captain John Smith house (c 1740)
- 69 S. Main Street, the Samuel Dutch house (b 1733)
- 7 County Street, the Thomas Dennis House (1663)
- 7 East Street, the Sadie Stockwell house (1888)
- 7 Maple Avenue, the Fred A. Nason house (1896)
- 7 South Village Green, the Rev. John Rogers – Col. John Baker House (c 1700, remodeled in 1761)
- 7 Summer Street, the Thomas Treadwell house (C 1740)
- 70 County Road, the John Hayes house (1910)
- 72 County Road, the David Giddings house (1828)
- 73 High Street, the Nathaniel Lord house (C 1720)
- 76 County Road, the Asa Wade house (1836)
- 76 East Street, the Hodgkins – Lakeman House (c1690)
- 77 High Street, the John Kimball house (1680)
- 78 County Road, the Samuel Wade house (1831)
- 78 East Street, the James Glover hosiery factory (c 1860)
- 78 Washington Street, the Daniel Haskell House (1835)
- 79 County Road, the Kinsman house (1820)
- 79 High Street, the Thomas H. Lord house (1835)
- 8 Agawam Avenue, the Newmarch – Spiller house (1798)
- 8 Brown Street, Timothy Carey house (1890)
- 8 East Street, the Captain Matthew Perkins house (1701)
- 8 High Street, Frederick and Sally Ross house (1887)
- 8 Kimball Ave, the W. B. Richards house (b 1910)
- 8 Liberty Street, colonial revival cape (1938)
- 8 Meeting House Green, the David T. Kimball House (1808)
- 8 North Main St, the Ebenezer Stanwood House (1747)
- 8 Summer Street, the Daniel Glazier house (1840)
- 8 Warren Street, the Harris – Grady house (1720-1772-1887)
- 8 Water Street, the Harris-Sutton House (1677)
- 8 Woods Lane, the James Peatfield house (1833)
- 80 East Street, the Perkins – Hodgkins House (c 1700)
- 82 Central St., the Isaac J. Potter house (b 1884)
- 82 County Road, the Brown – Manning house (1835)
- 82 High Street, the John Brewer house (1680)
- 83 Central Street, the International House (1866)
- 83 County Road, the Rogers-Brown-Rust House (1665-1723)
- 83 High Street, the Isaac Lord house, c. 1690-1784
- 84 County Road, the Reverends Daniel Fitz and Moses Welch house (1829)
- 84 High Street, the John Smith house (c 1830)
- 85 County Road, the John Wade house (1810)
- 85 High Street, the Elizabeth and Phillip Lord house (1774)
- 86 County Road, the Burnham – Brown house (1775)
- 87 High Street, the Sewall Jewett house (1830)
- 88 Central Street, the W. L. Johnson house (c 1880)
- 88 County Road, the Col. Nathaniel Wade House (1727)
- 88-90 High Street, the Shatswell-Tuttle house (right side by 1690 / left,1806)
- 89 High Street, the Moses Jewett house (1830)
- 9 County Street, the Benjamin Dutch house (1705)
- 9 East Street, the Foster Russell house (1856)
- 9 Green Street, the Elizabeth Holland house (1811)
- 9 High Street, the Samuel Newman house (1762)
- 9 Woods Lane, the Francis Merrifield – Mary Wade house (1792)
- 90 County Road, the William Wade house (1822)
- 91 Old Right Road, the Jacob Potter house (c 1845)
- 92 Central St., the John W. Brown house, circa 1890.
- 92 County Road, the Nathaniel Wade house and shop (1810)
- 93 High Street, the John Cole Jewett house (1813)
- 935 Bay Road, Hamilton MA, the Dane house
- 94 County Road, Jesse and John Wade’s shop (1888)
- 94 Essex Road, the William G. Horton house (c 1900)
- 95 High Street, the Simon and Hannah Adams house (1700)
- 96 County Road, Old South Church Parsonage (1860)
- A Natural History of Boston’s North Shore
- A slideshow trip through Ipswich
- About this site
- About WordPress code on this site
- America’s best-preserved Puritan town
- American Town by Alan Pearsall
- Appleton Farms
- Architectural styles
- Articles by John Fiske
- Attractions
- Boardman House, Saugus
- Building Permits for Historic Structures
- calendar test
- Chebacco Parish Old Graveyard
- Chronological history of the Old North Burying Ground
- Colonial houses of Georgetown MA
- Construction of the 1657 Alexander Knight house
- Danvers historical books
- Dining
- Downtown Businesses
- East End Walking Tour
- Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
- Essex County historical organizations
- Every house has a story
- Farmers and Fishermen
- Fine Thread, Lace and Hosiery
- First Period construction
- First Period houses of Essex County
- First Period houses of Ipswich
- Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich
- Great Estates Bylaw
- High Street Historic District
- High Street Walking Tour
- Historic and interactive maps of Ipswich
- Historic and Recent Photos
- Historic Districts
- Historic Ipswich Tour
- Historic Newburyport houses
- History of Plum Island
- Hoyt House, Waldingfield Rd. (c 1885)
- Immigrants Highland Annex Cemetery
- Inscriptions at the Old North Burying Ground (from Memento Mori)
- Ipswich 250th Anniversary Celebration Reported by the Boston Globe
- Ipswich Architectural Preservation District
- Ipswich Arts
- Ipswich at MACRIS
- Ipswich Bicycle Rides
- Ipswich Clam Box, 246 High St. (1935)
- Ipswich Cultural Council
- Ipswich Dinner Bell
- Ipswich farms and produce
- Ipswich First Period houses (before 1725)
- Ipswich Genealogy Resources
- Ipswich historic houses map
- Ipswich Historic Photos on Google Maps
- Ipswich Historical Commission
- Ipswich Hosiery, page 2
- Ipswich Hosiery, page 3
- Ipswich Hosiery, page 4
- Ipswich Hosiery, page 5
- Ipswich Hosiery, page 6
- Ipswich Hosiery, page 7
- Ipswich Hosiery, page 8
- Ipswich Hosiery, page 9
- Ipswich in the World War
- Ipswich Mills and Brown Stocking Mills Historic Districts
- Ipswich Mills and Factories
- Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section A
- Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section B
- Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section C
- Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section D
- Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section E
- Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section F
- Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section G
- Ipswich Old South Cemetery
- Ipswich Open Space
- Ipswich photos by Bill Congdon
- Ipswich photos by Elizabeth Sotis
- Ipswich photos by Irene Van Schyndel
- Ipswich photos by Paul Damon
- Ipswich photos by Sharon Scarlata
- Ipswich photos by Stoney Stone
- Ipswich photos by Susan Stone
- Ipswich photos by William Skelton
- Ipswich Revisited
- Ipswich Scenic Byways Law
- Ipswich Streets and Neighborhoods
- Ipswich Town Hall Quick Links
- Ipswich Town Historian
- Ipswich Yesterday by Alice Keenan
- Ipswich, by Andrew Borsari
- Ipswich: Stories from the River’s Mouth
- James and Sanford Peatfield
- John W. Newman house, 10 Riverbank Lane (c 1880)
- July 2019
- Lafayette Road neighborhood
- Legends of the North Shore
- Leslie Road Burial Ground, 169 Leslie Rd., Rowley MA
- Liberty Street
- Locust Grove Cemetery
- Lodging
- Manning Street, a Victorian neighborhood
- Maps to interments at the Old North Burying Ground
- Mary Conley Award
- Matthew Whipple house, 638 Bay Road, Hamilton (c 1680)
- Measuring Time– by an Hourglass
- Meeting House Green Historic District
- Mehitabel Braybrooke, in the Shadow of Salem
- Memento Mori
- Mount Pleasant Neighborhood
- Native Americans of the North shore
- New Linebrook Cemetery
- New Photos!
- Newburyport Stories from the Waterside
- North Shore Trails
- Old Linebrook Cemetery
- Old North Burying Ground (index by map location)
- Old North Burying Ground Section H
- Olde Ipswich Walking Audio Tour
- Outdoor Recreation in Ipswich
- Painting your historic house, a guide to colors and color schemes
- Paul McGinley
- Pearson-Dummer house, 27 Glen St., Rowley MA
- People
- Photo gallery
- Photographs by Edward Darling
- Places
- Plaques for historic houses
- Plum Island
- President George Washington’s final address (1796)
- Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society
- Resources for local Native American history and dialects
- Roadside Geology of Massachusetts
- Robert Stone house, 62 Washington St. (1869)
- South Green Historic District
- Stories from Chebacco (Essex)
- Stories from Essex
- Stories from Gloucester and Rockport
- Stories from Marblehead
- Stories from Newbury and Newburyport
- Stories from Rockport
- Stories from Rowley
- Stories from Salem
- Stories from the Hamlet (Hamilton)
- Stories from Topsfield
- Sue Nelson, 2010 Mary P. Conley Award winner
- Sullivan’s Corner: The Last Years of the Farm
- Sullivan’s Corner
- Sullivan’s Corner: Who Was There
- Sullivan’s Corner: Saving the Barn
- Sullivan’s Corner: Putting Hay In
- Sullivan’s Corner: The World Nearby
- Sullivan’s Corner: The House on the Corner
- Sullivan’s Corner: The Cows
- Sullivan’s Corner: The Stand
- Sullivan’s Corner: The Land
- Sullivan’s Corner: The Farm in Repose
- Sullivan’s Corner: What Remains
- The Ancient Records of the Town of Ipswich
- The Appleton Schoolhouse, 55 Waldingfield Rd. (before 1832)
- The Artisan of Ipswich by Robert Tarule
- The Crane Estate
- The Early History of Plum Island
- The East End Historic District
- The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
- The Great Estates of Ipswich
- The House on Ipswich Marsh
- The Industrial History of the Ipswich River
- The Ipswich Museum
- The Ipswich Visitor Center
- The Jacob Peabody house, 109 North St., Topsfield (1689)
- The Nehemiah Perkins house, 40 Cherry St., Wenham (circa 1710, altered 1840)
- The Platts-Bradstreet House, Rowley
- This Perfect Place
- Thomas and Elizabeth Lull, and the Caldwell sons
- Tobias Lakeman House, 38 Newmarch St., 1732-1760
- Tombstones and homes of the settlers of Ipswich Massachusetts
- Tour of Meeting House Green
- Town Reports
- Trustees of Reservations
- Turkey Shore, a Colonial and Victorian neighborhood
- Upcoming events
- Videos
- View posts
- Visitors Interactive Map
- Voices from the Beach: The Ipswich Lighthouse
- Walking tour mobile version
- Water Street
- Wicked Puritans of Essex County
- William Lampson -Bradley Palmer estate
- Stories from Ipswich and the North Shore
- Preservation Agreements
- Interactive map of historic houses
- Walking tours of historic Ipswich
- The ancient houses of Essex County
- Settlers and early inhabitants of Ipswich
- Ipswich burying grounds
- Books and documents
- Old North Burying Ground
- Ipswich History
- Featured posts
- Recent Posts
- Stories from the North Shore
- Historic houses of Ipswich and Essex County
- Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Posts
- Images of Ipswich in the winter
- From the Pandemic of 1918 to the Bird Flu
- The Plum Island Salt Company
- Play Ball! Bialek Park
- Homes of the Lords
- Richard and Ursula Scott Kimball of Rattlesden, who settled in Ipswich
- Lafayette returns to Ipswich
- The Cricket
- The Witchcraft Trial of Elizabeth Howe
- Colonial New England Funerals
- Crossing the tracks on High Street
- The ”October Gale” of 1841
- Who Were the Agawam Indians, Really?
- Ipswich Arts and Illumination
- Ipswich Pine
- John Adams’ letters from Ipswich
- The Whistleblowers
- The Ross Tavern
- 1854: Anti-immigrant Know Nothing Party sweeps Massachusetts elections
- Col. Doctor Thomas Berry, “Last of the Ipswich Aristocracy”
- Postcards from Ipswich
- A Chronology of Ipswich Public Works: Telegraph, Telephone, Gas, Water, Electricity, Trash, Sewer,Wind and Solar
- The Chasm
- The Great Colonial Hurricane and the wreck of the Angel Gabriel
- Joseph Stockwell Manning, a Civil War hero from Ipswich
- The defiant Samuel Appleton
- Strong drink
- The Spectre Ship of Salem
- Along the Old Bay Road
- Seating in the Meeting House
- Ipswich Cultural Council’s 33rd Annual Art Show, Oct. 4 – 6
- Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America
- Theodore Wendel’s Ipswich
- The Choate Bridge
- Reply by the Town of Ipswich to the Boston Pamphlet, December 28, 1772
- Rowdy Nights at Quartermaster Perkins’ Tavern
- The Agawam Diner
- Soffron Brothers Ipswich Clams
- The Bones of Masconomet
- Building a ship in Essex
- Recollections of A Boy’s Life In The Village
- Life in the Time of Greenheads
- The Highs & Lows of the Rowley River
- The Truth: Ipswich is dangerous for cyclists
- Massachusetts opposition to the Mexican-American War
- Portraits of Ipswich People Who Told the Truth
- Americans Who Tell the Truth
- The Sham Robbery of Elijah Goodrich on his own person, tried in Ipswich
- The Old Town Landings and Wharfs
- When Herring Were Caught by Torchlight
- Zumi’s coffee double duty
- The Grand Old Fourth
- This Old House visits the Ipswich 1634 Meadery
- To live locally
- Jane Hooper, the fortune-teller
- Gathering Salt Marsh Hay
- How the Irish Made Their Mark in New England
- The Burke Heel Factory and Canney Lumber Fire, June 19, 1933
- PTSD in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Land Grants, Homes and Gravestones of the Settlers of Ipswich
- Help update the Ipswich Community Development Plan
- Historic Districts and Neighborhoods
- The Commons
- 300 years on Grape Island
- County Street, Sawmill Point, and bare hills
- The Cape Ann Sea Serpent
- The Town Wharf
- Ipswich Pillow lace
- Agawam House – Treadwell’s Inn
- 1788 Massachusetts Act banning “any African or Negro”
- The Ipswich jails
- Ipswich Manning house at the MFA
- Acadian exiles in Ipswich, 1755
- Self-governed at Market Square
- Homes of the Appletons
- A romantic tale from the Great Snow of Feb. 21-24, 1717
- The Fox Creek Canal
- Choate Island and Rufus Choate
- The sad story of Alexander Knight
- The Devil’s footprint
- Crane Beach
- Castle Neck and the Dunes
- The ghost of Harry Maine
- Kings Rook and the Stonehenge Club, when Ipswich rocked!
- Ipswich Hosiery
- South Main Street
- Leslie’s Retreat, or how the Revolutionary War almost began in Salem, February 26, 1775
- The Massachusetts Circular Letter, February 11, 1768
- The Gerrymander is born in Essex County, February 11, 1812
- Newburyport Turnpike opens, February 11, 1805: “Over every hill and missing every town”
- The Ice House
- The Body Snatcher of Chebacco Parish
- Class of ’48
- South Congregational Church: Only the Bell Remains
- The Buried House at Wigwam Hill
- The Green Street Bridge
- Arthur Wesley Dow
- Manning’s Neck
- Ipswich Genealogy Resources
- The Ipswich Female Seminary
- Ipswich houses that were moved
- Dr. Manning’s Windmill
- 17th Century Celebrations
- Crocker Snow, Aviation Pioneer
- Supercontinents, Ice Ages, and the Hills of Ipswich
- Adrift on a Haystack, December 1786
- Ipswich to Marietta, December 1787
- The Great Snows of 2011 and 2015
- The Legend of Heartbreak Hill
- Boston’s Great Molasses Flood, January 15, 1919
- The Old North Burying Ground
- Central Street in ashes, January 13, 1894
- January 12, 1912: Lawrence Bread and Roses strike
- Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapses and burns, killing workers; January 10, 1860
- Arrival of the English
- Warned Out
- Diamond Stage
- Wreck of the Deposit, December 23, 1839
- The Railroad comes to Ipswich, December 20, 1839
- “A Christmas Carol” – the Back Story
- Wreck of the Falconer, December 17, 1847
- Paul Revere’s not so famous ride through Ipswich, December 13, 1774
- Along the Ipswich River
- The Conscience of a Loyalist
- The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
- Early American Gardens
- 2018 Mary Conley Award
- 2017 Mary Conley Award
- Mass Moments: Quakers Outlawed, December 3, 1658
- Awful Calamities: the Shipwrecks of December, 1839
- Death in a snowstorm, December 1, 1722
- Saving the Rooster
- Ipswich mob attacks Loyalist John Calef
- “A priceless reservoir of early American history”
- The Letters of Joseph Hodgkins and Sarah Perkins
- Photos from Crane Beach and Castle Neck
- The Ipswich Revolt of 1687
- Freedom for Jenny Slew
- Influenza 1918
- What was there? Historic photos on Google Maps
- View of Ipswich from a roof
- November 2, 1915: Massachusetts women are denied the right to vote
- The Goat Ghost of Ipswich
- John Eales, Beehive Maker
- The Mill Road Bridge and the Isinglass Factory
- How do we name a Green?
- The temptations of John Dane, a Declaration of Remarkable Providences
- General Michael Farley
- Ipswich Village (Upper High St.)
- The Free Press
- Ipswich, Slavery and the Civil War
- Mary Perkins Bradbury, charged as a witch
- 100 years ago – The Spanish Flu epidemic raged in Massachusetts in 1918
- Daniel Hovey
- “In the Good Old Summer Time” – Swampscott Estates
- “At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?”
- The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, 1679
- “Ipswich Town” by James Appleton Morgan
- Saugus Iron Works and the Appleton house.
- Pingrey’s Plain, the Gallows Lot
- William Franklin of Newbury, hanged for the death of an indentured child in 1644
- Outdoor recreation
- Ipswich Conservation Commission approaches its 60th anniversary
- Unrequited love and an Ipswich murder-suicide
- Two Taverns for Two Susannas
- Great Sorrows: The Deadly “Throat Distemper” of 1735-36
- The Great White Hurricane, March 11, 1888
- Voices of the Great Marsh
- Market Square, a “sign of the times?”
- The Great Ipswich Fright, April 21, 1775
- What could be more funner than working in the summer.
- Ipswich as described by John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Tragedy of the Wilderness: The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 4
- The Ipswich Town Flag
- Disorder in the Corn Fields: The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 3
- “Brought to Civility” — The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 2
- The Jewel Mill and Stone Arch Bridge
- “That we may avoid the least scrupulo of intrusion” – The Colonists and Indian Land, Part I
- A 17th Century neighbors quarrel
- How to run for the Select Board
- An Ipswich rose by any other name
- Manitou in Context
- Native American Influence on English Fashions
- “We’re Here For a Good Time, Not For a Long Time.” Remembering the Celebrated Life of Ipswich Police Officer Ed Walsh.
- The Cape Ann Vikings
- An old English barn at 44 High St.
- The Battle of Middle Ground
- The Keeping of Cattle on Jeffreys Neck
- Sarah Dillingham Caldwell
- Abigail Adams to John Adams: “All men would be tyrants if they could.”
- Bundling
- For “Auld Lang Syne” – Hogmanay, the traditional Scottish New Year’s Celebration
- Luke and Elizabeth Perkins, notorious Disturbers of the Peace and a “Wicked-tongued Woman”
- Stories from the Courts
- Samuel Symonds, gentleman: complaint to Salem court against his two servants, 1661
- Santa hits the Ipswich lightkeeper’s house, December 24, 1937
- Nancy Weare
- The Vermont Country Store catalogue evokes Christmas nostalgia
- Flight from Rooty Plain
- Oh, Wintry Christmas of My Youth!
- Buon Natale – The Rich Christmas Traditions of Italy
- How Christmas came to Ipswich
- Norman Rockwell Depicted an Idealized Version of American Thanksgiving
- Nancy’s Corner
- Appropriations of Native Identity: Pocahontas and the Last Wampanoag
- November 5: Guy Fawkes Day (“Pope Night,” “Gunpowder Day,” “Bonfire Night”)
- Daniel Low’s Silver “Witch Spoons” among Salem’s First Souvenirs
- The hanging of John Williams and William Schooler, July 1637
- Lydia Wardwell on her presentment for coming naked into Newbury meeting house
- The “new” houses on East Street
- The ABCs of Town Meeting
- Horses and Equestrians
- The Arnold Expedition arrives in Ipswich, September 15, 1775
- To secure a competence
- Last Roundup at the Lazy-K Ranch
- The stagecoach in Ipswich
- The APD: A balance between the community and the individual
- The Great Dying 1616-1619, “By God’s visitation, a wonderful plague”
- The Old Tann Flats
- Ipswich at war
- Something to Preserve
- The First Church Clock
- Boston Irish Long Remembered the 1834 Charlestown Convent Fire
- Keeping My Bearings in Changing Times
- Thoreau July Bicentennial Celebrated in Concord and Around the World
- In Congress, July 4, 1776
- Abbott Lowell Cummings, author of “The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay”
- Life in the Summer of Polio
- Lakemans Lane and Fellows Road
- The Karma of Modern Problems
- Governing Ipswich
- The Lakemans Lane Barn
- The Ipswich clam
- The women of Chebacco build a Meeting House, March 21, 1679
- Marblehead is established, May 6, 1635
- Homes of the Jewetts
- Maple Ave.
- Patronage and Scandal at the Ipswich Customs House
- Colonial houses of Boxford
- Sketches of Cape Ann
- A St. Patrick’s Day Reflection
- Living Descendants of the Native Americans of Agawam
- Portraits from Ipswich, a century ago
- The Ipswich Convention and the Essex Result
- The “Detested Tea”
- Bungalows of Ipswich
- Lynn Shoeworkers Strike, Feb. 22, 1860
- “Kiss of Death” at New England textile mills
- A town of immigrants
- The Marblehead smallpox riot, 1773
- High Spirits on Town Hill
- Groveland Colonial-era houses
- Jefferson’s Warning to the White House
- Colonial houses of West Newbury MA
- Old Roads and Bridges of Newbury and Newburyport
- The Man in Full: Honoring the Life and Times of Ipswich Police Officer Officer Charles B. Schwartz
- Colonial-era houses of Merrimac Massachusetts
- Born in a refuge camp
- Battles of the bridges
- An MLK Day Reflection – “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
- 19th Century: Religion divided the town
- Moll Pitcher, the fortune-teller of Lynn and Marblehead
- A folly and a barn
- The Civil War Monument
- The Lowell Offering
- The Great Agawam Stable Fire
- Jake Burridge, the sailor
- Market Square
- Market Street
- Measuring Time–by an hourglass
- The Ipswich River
- The First Winters in Ipswich
- A Very Ipswich Christmas
- “Dying Confession of Pomp, a Negro Man Who Was Executed at Ipswich on the 6th August, 1795”
- Illegal Currency: Ipswich and the Land Bank scheme of 1740-41
- George Washington returns to Mount Vernon, Christmas Eve 1783
- American Town
- Cape Ann photographs by Andrew Borsari
- Interesting Time To Be Alive
- Ipswich Mills Dam video
- Pearson-Dummer house, Rowley
- Traditional American Thanksgiving in Art and Song
- Yankee dictionary; a compendium of useful and entertaining expressions indigenous to New England
- The Constitutional Convention and establishment of the Electoral College
- William Clancy, WWI hero
- The “Commonwealth”
- First Period houses of Salem, Massachusetts
- Peg Wesson, the Gloucester witch
- Boston Globe: The Tragedy that Boston forgot
- Ralph W. Burnham, Antiques and Hooked Rugs
- The oldest houses in Gloucester, MA
- The grand hotels of Gloucester and Cape Ann, 1905
- Remembering Poe
- Antique houses of Wenham, Massachusetts
- Colonial-era houses of Beverly, Massachusetts
- Killing wolves
- Colonial houses of old Newbury, Massachusetts
- The ancient houses of Rowley, Massachusetts
- 17th and 18th Century houses of Topsfield, Massachusetts
- Historic Ipswich in black and white
- Newburyport Colonial homes
- Colonial houses of Hamilton, Massachusetts
- Historic houses of Essex, Massachusetts
- The old houses of Danvers, Massachusetts
- County Street
- Hurricanes and winter storms
- Teddy Roosevelt’s “whistlestop” in Ipswich, 1912
- The Town is Full!
- Linebrook Parish
- Washington and Liberty Streets
- Nathaniel Ward: The Simple Cobbler of Agawam in America
- Argilla Road
- East Street
- Summer Street
- 1910 Ipswich census and maps
- The 2016 Ipswich drought
- The Bay Circuit Trail in Ipswich
- The shipwrecks at Ipswich Bar
- Thomas Dennis, legendary Ipswich joiner
- The Great Revere Train wreck, August 26, 1871
- Abraham Knowlton, “Workman of rare skill”
- Asbury Grove Methodist Camp Meeting, Hamilton MA
- Ipswich and the Breach with Britain
- 19th Century political toasts
- The old tool guys Jake Burridge and Jim Giannakakis visit the Heard House
- Ipswich during World War II
- The Christian Wainwright house, Market St.
- Historic people
- “Dalliance and too much familiarity”
- The British attack on Sandy Bay
- The Green Street dam
- Ghosts of Independence Day
- An Amazing Coincidence on July 4, 1826
- Images of Ipswich Bluffs
- Roads to Paradise
- Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Deluge! An Eyewitness Account of the Mother’s Day Storm of 2006
- The last cottage on Plum Island
- Remembering John Dolan
- How will sea level rise affect Ipswich?
- A Nostalgic Glance at Harvard’s Early History
- Remembering Susan Howard Boice
- The Muster Murder of 1787
- The Hello Girls
- The great and famous not so gentle Ipswich putdown
- A Heated Battle – Lodge vs. Curley 1936
- Mass Moments: Puritans Leave for Massachusetts
- Rum runners
- The Merchant Princes, Cyrus Wakefield and George Peabody
- April 1, 1970: The Massachusetts Legislature challenges the Vietnam War
- The Proximity Fuze: How Ipswich women helped win WW II
- Glen Magna and the Joseph Peabody Family of Salem
- The “Little Old Lady from Ipswich” who was seen around the world
- Election night in Ipswich
- Remembering Taffy Hill
- The boy who fell beneath the ice
- The Ipswich Town Farm, 1817-1928
- The Greek Hotel
- Debatable Discourse, or Mud Slinging Made Easy!
- Primary Primer
- Colonial and Colonial Revival houses
- The missing dunes at Castle Neck
- Properly Seated
- Primary Colors
- Block prints from the 1950 IHS calendar: Old Time Ipswich
- Carted back to Ipswich, 1714
- Old Town, a colonial neighborhood in Marblehead
- George Dexter’s Ipswich
- Photos from Ipswich
- The 1934 parade celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the founding of Ipswich
- Postcards from Newburyport
- Ipswich after a snowstorm, circa 1900
- Playoff-Grade Guinness Beef Stew
- The Cold Friday of 1810 – New England Historical Society
- Jeffreys’ Neck Road
- “Wording it over the sheep” and behaving badly
- No matter how you roll the dice, it’s still a lot of Clams!
- The streets of Boston, 1906
- The mill girl’s letter: “I can make you blush.”
- Strawberry Hill and Greenwood Farm
- Taking to the air in Ipswich, 1910-11
- Hammers on Stone, the story of Cape Ann granite
- A “Revolutionary” Christmas dinner, 1823
- Hannah and Samuel Loring, a Christmas romance and tragedy
- Ipswich in the Great Depression
- The Halifax Explosion – One Plea for Help Launches a Crusade – New England Historical Society
- Let’s Go Walking……. After Midnight……
- Homes of the Wades
- “We walked in the clouds and could not see our way”
- Dow Brook and Bull Brook
- A Town Hill Hike
- The Great Fire of Boston, November 9-10, 1872
- Hammatt Street and Brown Square
- The Grand Wenham Canal and the Topsfield Linear Common
- Party Poopers for a Parliament
- An autumn walk in the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary
- Haunted houses of Ipswich
- Something Wicked Your Way Comes
- President Washington visits Ipswich, October 30, 1789
- Ecclesiastical Ipswich
- Marblehead tavern maid Agnes Surriage becomes becomes the lady of the manor, 1742
- A simple badge and gun does not a copper make
- Persecution of Quakers by the Puritans
- The Great Snow Hurricane of October 9, 1804
- Mass Moments: Roger Williams Banished
- Ipswich woman survived two train crashes in one morning, 1956!
- The “Dungeons of Ipswich” during the War of 1812
- Joseph Ross, 19th Century Ipswich bridge builder
- The witchcraft accusations against Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge
- Candlewood Road
- Hurricane Carol, September 6, 1954
- Clamming on Cape Ann
- Riverbend, the Barnard estate (Marguery Restaurant), 1915
- Little Neck Nostalgia, by Gavin Keenan
- To the Inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich, from Thomas Jefferson
- Elizabeth S. Cole is elected as first female Ipswich selectman, March 10, 1970
- Historic women of the North Shore
- The Witchcraft Trial of Elizabeth Morse of Newbury, 1680
- Ipswich Chronicle Report of the 250th Anniversary Exercises, August 16, 1884
- Discovery of native American shell heap on Treadwell’s Island, 1882
- Strandbeest Invasion
- The Legend of Goody Cole, 1680
- Killed by a swordfish, August 19, 1886
- Emma Jane Mitchell Safford
- Eunice Stanwood Caldwell Cowles
- Melanson’s fire, August 7, 2009
- Thoughts on an August Day
- Wreck of the Watch and Wait, August 24, 1635
- The ancient names of Ipswich streets and roads
- Charles Wendell Townsend, Ipswich naturalist
- Postcards from Salem
- Choate-Caldwell House, 16 Elm St. (Now at Smithsonian)
- Pink Flamingos, “more musings from a musty mind”
- Lords Square
- Great Neck
- Little Neck
- The Ipswich lighthouse
- The Ipswich Riverwalk mural
- President Monroe’s brief visit to Ipswich
- Legendary ships of Salem
- Dustbane–sawdust in a can!
- “Hatchet Hannah” leads raid on Rockport liquor establishments, July 8, 1856
- Names of the Ipswich slaves
- The hanging of Ezra Ross and Bathsheba Spooner, July 2, 1778
- The Great Salem Fire, June 25, 1914
- Samuel Goodhue’s pier
- The trolley comes to Ipswich, June 26, 1896
- First Church burns, June 13, 1965
- Bill George’s nostalgic look at old Ipswich
- Bombshell from Louisbourg
- A photographic history of the Ipswich Mills Dam
- The Great Newburyport fire, May 31, 1811
- Rachel Clinton arrested for witchcraft, May 28, 1692
- The steamship “Carlotta”
- Photos from Ipswich Town Reports
- Mothers Day Flood, May 14-16, 2006
- The day Nute Brown crashed through the Choate Bridge
- A photographic and chronological history of the Ipswich Schools
- The “wearing of long hair”
- Ipswich town meeting
- Birthplace of American Independence
- John Dunton’s visit to Ipswich and Rowley, 1686
- John Winthrop’s journal of the ship Arbella’s voyage to America, March 29 – July 8, 1630
- The Hayes Hotel
- Essex shipyards and the age of the Gloucester schooners
- Joppa Flats, Newburyport
- “A Land of Promise,” April 1614
- John Updike, the Ipswich years
- Newburyport and its Neighborhoods, 1874, by Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Gorton’s becomes the largest fishing business on the Atlantic coast, March 31, 1906
- The first jailbreak in the Colony, March 30, 1662
- Ipswich and the Salem witchcraft trials
- Four-year-old Dorothy Good is jailed for witchcraft, March 24, 1692
- Glover’s Wharf and the Ipswich coal industry
- Barton Stone, end of an era
- Lowell women’s suffrage activist Florence Luscomb
- Ipswich Red Raiders, “a melting pot of awesome contenders!”
- Photos from the Great Snow of 2015
- “A Good Heat,” a short tale from Newburyport
- Dogtown, its history and legends
- Depot Square
- 1893 Birdseye map of Ipswich
- The Old South Cemetery
- The old American Elm tree succumbs, July 11, 2012
- 1639: “The pigs have liberty”
- Lord Timothy Dexter
- Wreck of the Hesperus, January 6, 1839
- 1793 and 1818: the “Burden of the Poor” divides Ipswich into three towns
- Early Ipswich, “A paradise for politicians”
- WWII scrap metal collection in Ipswich
- Three old houses that stood on High Street at Manning and Mineral
- Life magazine takes a new look at the old Whipple House, October 1944
- Drunkards, liars, a hog, a dog, a witch, “disorderly persons” and the innkeeper
- A tragic story from old Gloucester
- History of Gloucester, MA
- The reluctant pirate from Ipswich, Captain John Fillmore
- Tales of Olde Ipswich by Harold Bowen
- The Amazing Story of Hannah Duston, March 14, 1697
- Haselelpony Wood, November 27, 1714
- The Cape Ann Earthquake, November 18, 1755
- Clam Battle! (Life Magazine, July 16, 1945)
- The Ipswich Architectural Preservation District
- An old pear tree grows in Danvers…
- Sally Weatherall
- Captain Arthur H. Hardy, 1972
- Troubles with Sheep
- The Strand Opera House and Theater
- The Ipswich Company, Massachusetts State Guard, 1942
- Thomas Foulds Ellsworth
- The old grain elevator at Tedfords
- Building and launching the schooner Ardelle in Essex
- The Great New England Hurricane, September 21, 1938
- Sarah Goodhue’s advance directive, July 14, 1681
- Daniel Denison
- Views of rooftops from downtown Ipswich, circa 1900
- Police open fire at the Ipswich Mills Strike, June 10, 1913
- John Winthrop Jr. here and gone
- The North Shore and the Golden Age of Cycling
- The Ipswich Post Offices
- The Ipswich Safety Steam Automobile, 1901
- The Clammer
- The Breakfast Club
- Gettin’ away on the ‘Pike
- The Boardman House in Saugus
- Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the colony’s first published poet
- Agawam
- The Fox Creek Canal
- Hook and Ladder 1 and heroic George Gilmore
- The Spectre Leaguers, 1692
- Ipswich, the Brookfield Massacre and King Philip’s War
- The Giles Firmin Park: from tannery to arboretum to playground
- The Middle Circumferential Highway (that never happened)
- Parting Paths
- The Dark Day, May 19, 1780
- Wreck of the Edward S. Eveleth, October 1922
- Alice Keenan’s Ipswich: Preserve and Protect
- Hay Scales
- The Seating of Boys and Girls at the Ipswich Meeting House
- Gothic Gables of Ipswich
- Parades
- Memories of Quint’s Corner
- The Ipswich drive-through ban
- Newburyport: A Record of Change
- Wreck of the Lucy M. Collins, August 19, 1891
- Mill Road Linear Park RIP
- Wrecks of the schooners
- A look back at the 1950 Ipswich Town Report
- The corner of Linebrook and Pineswamp Roads, before and after
- 1816, the year without summer
- The Bull Brook Paleo-Indian Discovery
- Mason’s Claim
- “Pivot Rock” at Crane Castle
- Lucy Kimball
- A short history of Ipswich dog laws
- View from Bayberry Hill
- Into the Fire, 2001
- The Boy Who Couldn’t Remember
- A beautiful little bridge
- How I came to Ipswich, or what happened to my hair?
- Stopping nuclear in Ipswich, 1967-1970
- One Third for the Widow
- The Blizzard of ’78, February 5, 1978
- The Year that Ipswich Burned
- The Ipswich Townie Test
- Martha Winthrop’s grave
- The hills of Ipswich
- Wreck of the Ada K. Damon
- The Missing Burial Ground
Hi Gordon, I’ve meant to contact you many times, but haven’t turned thoughts to action. But I just saw a celebration of people inducted into the Ipswich Sports Hall of Fame. It occurred to me that we should give equal attention to the many citizen activists who have worked have enriched our town over the years with little fanfare. I think instituting a Hall of Fame for Citizenship is long overdue. Seems to me that you are just the person who could get such a night of recognition going. I can think of a number of living people who deserve that special recognition. But of course the first people on the list would be emeritus acknowledgement of John and Mary Conley. Doing something like this during the winter when there are fewer pressures on people would be a good idea. I’m certainly willing to help in any way I can.
Hope you will take on this project. Let me know what you think of the idea. Anyway, good to chat with you if only on line.
Marjorie Robie
LikeLike
Excellent idea! Can you send us your suggested nominations? email historicipswich@gmail.com
LikeLike
Park at the Rite Aid parking lot at Lords Square to visit the First Period houses on upper High St.
LikeLike
I would like to visit the Joseph Fowler house and other points of interest in that area in the near future. Is there a good place to park for a shorter walk/photography undertaking of that nature?
LikeLike