This site is produced by Ipswich town historian Gordon Harris, and is not officially affiliated with the Town of Ipswich, its boards or commissions. The web address and server are generously provided by Al Boynton.
Contacts:
- Kerrie Bates, Visitor Center and Ipswich Department of ReCreation and Culture: kerrieb@ipswich-ma.gov
- Gordon Harris, Historic Ipswich site: gordonharris2@gmail.com
- Ipswich Public Library Archives
- Ipswich Museum
- Ipswich Historical Commission
- Ipswich Architectural Preservation District Commission
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
- 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
- “Labor in Vain House,” c.1720 (Labor in Vain-Fox Creek private road)
- 1 Blaisdell Terrace (c 1920)
- 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 / 1725)
- 1 Turkey Shore Road, the Burnham-Patch-Day house c 1670-1730
- 10 Argilla Rd., Harry Joyce house (c 1885)
- 10 Blaisdell Terrace (c 1900)
- 10 Brown Square, Tedfords Lumber (1933)
- 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 Liberty St., the Brown house (c 1900)
- 10 Manning Street, the G. Haskell house (circa 1890)
- 10 Mineral Street, the W. Smith house (c 1860)
- 10 Riverbank Lane, the John W. Newman house (c 1880)
- 10 Summer Street, the Charles and Abigail Cotton / Moses Harris House (1838)
- 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)
- 101 Central Street, Newton house (c 1900)
- 102 County Road, the Rowell-Homans house (c 1865)
- 103 High Street, the William Merchant house (1670)
- 104 Essex Rd., the Joseph and Abigail Marshall farm (1869)
- 104 High Street, the John Kimball house (1715)
- 106 Argilla Road, the Octavia Hamlin house (1784)
- 106 High St. the Caleb Kimball house (1715)
- 107 Argilla Road, Argilla Farm (c. 1805)
- 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)
- 109 Central Street, Daniel and Mary Collins house (1873)
- 11 Argilla Rd. (c. 1900)
- 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 Poplar Street, the George H. Green house, (c. 1890)
- 11 South Village Green, the Gables (1838), David Baker
- 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 Central Street, the Samuel Baker house (before 1884)
- 110 High Street, the John Kimball Jr. house (1730)
- 111 Central Street, the Albert and Annie Garland house (1894)
- 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 Brown St. (c 1890)
- 12 Green Street, the Andrew Burley house (1688)
- 12 High Street, the William Russell House (1890)
- 12 Liberty St., Charles Brown house (c 1890)
- 12 Manning Street, the Edward T. Pike house (1885)
- 12 Market Street, the Abraham Wait house (1832)
- 12 Meeting House Green, the First Church Vestry (1832)
- 12 North Main Street, Treadwell’s Inn (1737)
- 12 Summer Street, the Ezra W. Lord house (1848)
- 12 Warren Street, the Louisa Wells house (c1700)
- 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, Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital (1916-1987)
- 126 High Street, Burnham’s Antiques (c 1920)
- 13 Argilla Road, Thomas and Elizabeth Brown house (c 1844)
- 13 East St., Ignatius Dodge Shoe Manufacturing (b.1856)
- 13 High Street, the Joseph Willcomb house (1669-1693)
- 13 Liberty St., the Roberts house (c 1900)
- 13 Manning St., the Fields house, (c. 1900)
- 13 Mount Pleasant Avenue, the Mary Nugent house (1874)
- 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)
- 136 County Rd., the Francis Henry Richardson house (1902)
- 14 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
- 14 Brown St., Mitchell-Ralph house (c 1890)
- 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 Manning Street (c 1915)
- 14 Mineral Street (c 1915)
- 14 Summer St., the Isaiah Rogers house (c 1870)
- 15 Argilla Road, the George and Mabelle 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 Elm Street, the Old Town Hall Annex (c 1920)
- 15 Liberty St. (c 1870)
- 15 Manning Street (c 1920)
- 15 South Main Street, the Caldwell Block (1870)
- 15 Summer Street, the Jonathan Pulcifer house (1718)
- 153 Argilla Road, the Isaac Goodale house (1669)
- 155 Argilla Road, the Holman-Ilsley house, c 1790 (moved here in 1951)
- 16 Brown St., the Leno house (1890)
- 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, altered beyond recognition)
- 16 High Street, the Jacob Manning house (1818)
- 16 Liberty St., the Martha Curtis house (1885)
- 16 Manning St. (c 1900)
- 16 Maple Avenue, the William H. Bodwell house, 1890
- 16 Mineral Street, Wise Saddle Shop (c1742 (?) /1801)
- 16 North Main Street, the Stephen Coburn house (1845)
- 16 Summer Street, the Treadwell house (1852)
- 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 Argilla Rd. (1913)
- 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, Perkins and Daniels Shoe Factory (1843)
- 17 High Street, the Thomas Lord house (after 1658)
- 17 Liberty St., the Blaisdell house (c 1870)
- 17 Manning Street, the Candlewood School (1856) (moved to this location)
- 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 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
- 173 Linebrook Road, the Kozeneski farm (c 1900, demolished 2019)
- 175 County Road, the William Manning house (1820)
- 176 Argilla Rd., “Thatchbanks” (1912)
- 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 Jr. house (1812)
- 18 Hammatt Street, the Ipswich gas generator building (1877-2018)
- 18 Liberty St. (1885)
- 18 North Main Street, the Charles Kimball house (1834)
- 18 Washington Street, Sanford Peatfield House (1860)
- 187 Argilla Rd. (1907)
- 188 Argilla Road, the Oliver Cogswell house, 1815
- 18th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 19 Brown Square (1903)
- 19 High Street, the John Blake house (1885)
- 19 Mineral Street (1856)
- 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 Jabez Treadwell house (1748)
- 2 Poplar Street, Swasey Tavern (1718)
- 2 Putnam Rd.
- 2 Turkey Shore, the Heard – Lakeman House (1776)
- 20 Manning Street (1902)
- 20 Market Street, the Stacey-Ross house (1734)
- 20 Mineral Street, the Lucy Ackerman house (c 1870)
- 203 Argilla Rd., the William Shurcliff house (1963)
- 207 Argilla Rd., the Sidney Shurcliff house (1935)
- 208 Argilla Road (1917) the Barney-Smith house
- 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 Manning Street
- 21 North Main Street, the Theodore Cogswell house (1880)
- 21 Spring Street, the G. F. Swain summer estate (b 1910)
- 211 Argilla Rd., the Mary Ann Archer Lord house (1902)
- 217 Argilla Road, the Townsend house (1902)
- 219 County Rd., Samuel Appleton “Old House” (1794)
- 22 East Street, the Moses Fellows House (1873)
- 22 Elm St. (c. 1840)
- 22 Mineral Street, the Warner-Harris House (c. 1696, alt. 1835)
- 22 North Main Street, the Colonial Building (1904)
- 23 East Street (c 1860)
- 23 Manning Street (1934)
- 23 Mineral Street, the Lydia and Joseph Lord house (1871)
- 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 Manning Street, the A. P. Hills house (c. 1900)
- 24 Market Street, the Aaron Jewett house (c 1800)
- 24 Summer Street, the William E. Barton house (1884)
- 24 Topsfield Road, the Moses Kimball house (1688)
- 240 County Road, the Proctor Estate, New England Biolabs (1895)
- 246 High St., Ipswich Clam Box, (1935)
- 248 High Street, the William Spiller house (c 1838)
- 25 County Street, the J. Caldwell house (c 1860)
- 25 East St, the Stanwood-Willcomb house (1830)
- 25 Green Street, the Ipswich Town Hall (1935)
- 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, with additions)
- 26 Manning Street, the Sullivan house (1927)
- 26 Mineral Street (c 1870)
- 26 North Main Street, the Agawam House (1806)
- 27 Argilla Rd. (1928)
- 27 East Street, the Widow Elizabeth Caldwell house (1740-1755)
- 27 High Street, the Edward Browne House (c 1650-1750)
- 27 Lakeman’s Lane, the Benjamin Fellows house (c. 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 County St., the Asa Stone -Theodore Wendel house (1872)
- 28 Mineral Street (c 1880)
- 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 Argilla Rd. (c. 1900)
- 3 Candlewood Rd., the Brown-Whipple house (1812)
- 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
- 3 Liberty St., the Foster house (c 1880)
- 3 Loney’s Lane, the Aaron Day Wells house (c 1850)
- 3 Manning St. (after 1910)
- 3 Maple Avenue, the Harland and Blanche Burke house (1916)
- 3 Mineral Street, the Charles H. Baker house (c 1870)
- 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 Candlewood Rd., the Ephraim Brown house (1825)
- 30 East Street, the Francis Jordan house
- 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 Argilla Rd. (c 1910)
- 31 County Street, Ascension Memorial Episcopal Church (1875)
- 31 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Nathaniel Scott house (1838)
- 31 Mineral Street (c 1870)
- 31 North Main Street, the Methodist Church (1859)
- 31 South Main Street, the Dr. 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 in 1914)
- 33 Broadway St., the Barkowski house (c 1920)
- 33 Central Street, Memorial Hall (1921)
- 33 East St., the Old Store (1830)
- 33 High Street, the John and Sarah Dillingham Caldwell house (1660/1709)
- 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 Lakeman’s Lane, the Wade-Kinsman- Cameron house (c 1860)
- 34 Mitchell Road, the Mitchell Farm (1800)
- 34 North Main Street, the William Pulcifer house (1836)
- 341 Linebrook Road, the Lot Conant house (1717, altered beyond recognition)
- 347 Linebrook Road, the Foster-Conant house (1840)
- 35 Central St., the Caldwell-Copp house
- 35 County St., the Lydia and Reuben Daniels house (1863)
- 35 East Street, the Luther Wait house (1810)
- 35 Mill Road, the Captain William Warner house (1780)
- 35 Mineral Street, the Smith house (c 1835)
- 35 Washington Street, the Charles and Margaret Bell house (c 1890)
- 36 Candlewood Road, the Martin Keith house (1807, moved 1995)
- 36 North Main Street, the Dr. 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 Newmarch St., the Tobias Lakeman House (1732)
- 38 North Main Street, the Old Post Office (1763)
- 38 Summer Street, the William M. and Jennie Ellsworth house (1881)
- 387 Linebrook Road, David Tulley Perley farm (1880)
- 39 – 41 High Street, the Daniel Lummus house (1686)
- 39 Broadway St. (1929)
- 39 Mineral Street (c 1920)
- 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 Cameron Avenue (1928)
- 4 East St., the old Methodist Parsonage, 1830
- 4 Elm Street, Condon’s Grocery
- 4 Green Street, the William H. Graves house (1852)
- 4 Highland Ave., the George & Elizabeth Spencer house (c 1910)
- 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 Hayes building, c 1890
- 4 Old Right Road, the Tenney house (c 1900)
- 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 William Howard House (c.1680/ 1709)
- 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 (frame 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)
- 42 Washington Street, DJ’s Variety Store (1938)
- 421 Linebrook Road, the Abraham Howe barn (1725)
- 43 Argilla Road, the Giddings – Burnham house (b 1667)
- 43 Avery St. (c 1900)
- 43 High Street, the Fitts- Manning-Tyler house (1767)
- 43 Summer Street, the Wilcomb-Pinder house (1718)
- 437 Linebrook Road, the Allen Perley farm (1784)
- 44 Argilla Rd. (c 1930)
- 44 Central St., the Ellen V. Lang house (c 1885)
- 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 (circa 1800)
- 44 Mill Road, Holiday Hill, The William and Violet Thayer house (1897)
- 44 North Main Street, the Harry K. Dodge house (1886)
- 44 Washington St., the Howard Hills house (1905)
- 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 (1735)
- 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 High Street, Samuel W. Baker house (1852)
- 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 (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 Argilla Rd. (c 1900)
- 5 County Street, the Richard Rindge / Pindar house (1718)
- 5 Hemlock Drive: Fairview, the Charles Campbell estate (1900)
- 5 Linebrook Rd., the Richard Lane house (1851)
- 5 Maple Avenue, the G. Baxter – Frank Campbell house (1890)
- 5 South Village Green, the Aaron Smith house (1776)
- 5 Spring Street, the Henderson house (c. 1880)
- 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)
- 50-56 Market Street, the Lord-Sullivan-Haskell house (1847)
- 51 East St., 1845 (demolished)
- 51 Linebrook Road, the Hart House (1678)
- 51 North Main Street, the Sarah Lord house (1849)
- 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)
- 52-54 High Street, the Kingsbury – Lord – Harris house (after 1716)
- 53 Argilla Road, the Samuel Kinsman house (1750-77)
- 53 Washington Street, the George W. Smith – Pickard House, (1880)
- 54 S. Main St., the Heard House / Ipswich Museum
- 55 Central Street, Central Fire Station (1907)
- 55 East St. (c 1922)
- 55 Waldingfield Rd., “Waldingfield” (1929)
- 56 Fellows Road, the Josiah Brown house, (1812)
- 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 (1737)
- 57 South Main Street, Ipswich Mills boarding house (1876)
- 58 North Main Street, the Captain Richard Rogers House (1728)
- 58 Waldingfield Rd., the Hoyt house (c 1885)
- 59 Candlewood Road, the Jeremiah Kinsman house (1752)
- 59 East Street, the Daniel Rindge 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 Highland Ave., the George Spencer Sr. house (c 1880)
- 6 Hovey Street, the Thomas Foulds Ellsworth house (1866)
- 6 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Oliver L. Sanborn house (1855)
- 6 Liberty St. (c. 1890)
- 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 Riverbank Lane, the Henry Rodman Kenyon house (1902)
- 6 South Main Street, the Shoreborne Wilson – Samuel Appleton house (1685, greatly altered)
- 6 Water Street, the Reginald Foster house (1690)
- 6-8 North Main St., Taverner Sparks (c.1671-1710)
- 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 (1691 / 1726)
- 62 Washington St., the Robert Stone house (1869)
- 63 Turkey Shore Road, the Isaac Foss house (1870)
- 64 County Road, the Southside Store (c. 1836)
- 65 Candlewood Road, the Rhoda Kinsman house ( 1776 / 1818)
- 65 Waldingfield Road, Sunswick (1890)
- 66 Argilla Road, the George Haskell house (1855)
- 66 High Street, the John Harris-Mark Jewett house (1795)
- 66 Labor in Vain Rd., the Giddings-Gould-Weatherall house (1795-1850)
- 67 Turkey Shore Road, the Stephen Boardman house (1720)
- 68 County Road, Calvin Locke’s Folly (1836)
- 68 Essex Rd., the Levi Brown house (1832)
- 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 (1733, rear section may be older)
- 7 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
- 7 County Street, the Thomas Dennis House (1663)
- 7 East Street, the Sadie Stockwell house (1888)
- 7 Liberty St., the John W. and Annie M. Lord house (C 1867)
- 7 Linebrook Rd. (1914)
- 7 Manning St., the E W. Russell house (c 1890)
- 7 Maple Avenue, the Fred A. Nason house (1896)
- 7 South Village Green, the Rev. John Rogers – Col. John Baker House (c 1700-1761)
- 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)
- 74 Essex Rd., the Willard B. and Harriett Manning Kinsman house (1851)
- 76 County Road, the Asa Wade house (1831)
- 76 East Street, the Hodgkins – Lakeman House (c. 1690)
- 77 High Street, the John Kimball house (1680)
- 78 County Road, the Samuel Wade house (1831)
- 78 East Street, the James Glover house (c 1860)
- 78 Washington Street, the Daniel Haskell House (1835)
- 79 Central Street, the Foster Russell Jr. house (1883)
- 79 County Road, the Jacob Manning house (c. 1820)
- 79 East St., Curran house (c 1870)
- 79 High Street, the Thomas H. Lord house (c 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 Linebrook Rd., the C. Chester Caldwell house
- 8 Manning Street, the Jordan house, (c. 1890)
- 8 Maple Ave., the George Tozer house (circa 1890)
- 8 Meeting House Green, the David T. Kimball House (1808)
- 8 Summer Street, the Daniel Glazier house (1840)
- 8 Warren Street, the James Harris house
- 8 Water Street, the Pengry-Harris-Sutton House (1677-1743, completely reconstructed in 2000)
- 8 Woods Lane, the James Peatfield house (1833)
- 80 Central Street, the Malachi Nolan house (1877)
- 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, 1696 – 1806
- 84 County Road, the Reverends Daniel Fitz and Moses Welch house (1829)
- 84 High Street, the John Smith house (c 1830)
- 84 Topsfield Rd., the Bosson -Hayward-Goodhue-Jarlowicz house (c. 1874)
- 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 Central Street (c 1890)
- 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 Argilla Rd. (1834)
- 89 High Street, the Moses Jewett house (1830)
- 9 Argilla Rd. (c 1900)
- 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 Liberty St. (c. 1880)
- 9 Manning St., the Albert P. Hills house (c. 1890)
- 9 Poplar St., the Seward – Mavroides house (1873)
- 9 Woods Lane, the Francis Merrifield – Mary Wade house (1792)
- 90 Central Street, the Brown-Riley house (1897)
- 90 County Road, the William Wade house (1822)
- 91 Central Street, the Sylvanius and Mary Canney house (c 1866)
- 91 Old Right Road, the Jacob Potter house (c 1845)
- 92 Central St., the Abbie G. Lord house, 1871
- 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 (c. 1700)
- 96 County Road, Old South Church Parsonage (1860)
- 97 Central Street, the Olive and Charles McIntire house (1885)
- 98 Central Street, the William and Abigail Haskell house (b 1884)
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- An autumn walk in the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary
- The Price Act, passed at Ipswich, February 1777
- Elizabeth S. Cole elected as first female Ipswich selectman, March 10, 1970
- Joppa Flats, Newburyport
- Kings Rook and the Stonehenge Club, when Ipswich rocked!
- Play Ball! Bialek Park
- November 2, 1915: Massachusetts women are denied the right to vote
- November 5: Guy Fawkes Day (“Pope Night,” “Gunpowder Day,” “Bonfire Night”)
- Ipswich in the Great Depression
- David Tenney Kimball, pastor of First Church, 1805 – 1855
- Portraits from Ipswich a century ago
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- Nathan Dane
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- Block prints from the 1950 IHS calendar: Old Time Ipswich
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- General Michael Farley
- The grand hotels of Gloucester and Cape Ann
- The Arnold Expedition arrives in Ipswich, September 15, 1775
- Mehitable Braybrook, who burned down Jacob and Sarah Perkins’ house, married John Downing and was arrested for witchcraft
- Hurricane Carol, September 6, 1954
- Strandbeest Invasion
- Thomas and Susan French of Ipswich, their sons and daughters
- Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in Essex County
- Early Ipswich, “A paradise for politicians”
- Peg Wesson, the Gloucester witch
- Bungalows of Ipswich
- Killed by a swordfish in Ipswich Bay, August 19, 1886
- Wreck of the Watch and Wait, August 24, 1635
- Descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich
- Descendants of John and Judith Gator Perkins of Ipswich
- Homes of the descendants of John Baker of Ipswich
- Land grants, homes and gravestones of the early settlers of Ipswich
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- Hall-Haskell House 2021 art schedule
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- The Muster Murder of 1787
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- The Great Revere Train wreck, August 26, 1871
- Homes of the descendants of Daniel Rindge and Mary Kinsman of Ipswich
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- Homes of the descendants of Richard and Ursula Scott Kimball of Rattlesden, who settled in Ipswich
- Melanson’s fire, August 7, 2009
- Homes of the Lords
- “Kiss of Death” at New England textile mills
- Thoughts on an August Day
- Homes of the Manning family of Ipswich
- 300 years on Grape Island
- Luke and Elizabeth Perkins, notorious disturbers of the peace and a “wicked-tongued Woman”
- Swimming to the top of the tide
- Arrival of the English
- The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
- Lakemans Lane and Fellows Road
- The Hello Girls
- Let’s Go Walking……. After Midnight……
- Illegal Currency: Ipswich and the Land Bank scheme of 1740-41
- The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692
- A Sunday at Old Ipswich
- President Washington visits Ipswich, October 30, 1789
- John Fiske, 1939-2021
- Thomas and Elizabeth Lull, the Caldwell sons and their descendants
- Deluge! An Eyewitness Account of the Mother’s Day Storm of 2006
- Carted back to Ipswich, 1714
- Bygone Ipswich
- The Old Town Landings and Wharfs
- The Greek Hotel
- Lafayette returns to Ipswich
- The Grand Old Fourth
- Life in the Time of Greenheads
- A Revolutionary Guest: John Adams’ letters from Ipswich
- Joseph English: Loyalty and Survival in the Life of a Colonial Native Scout
- Mary Perkins Bradbury, charged as a witch
- The witchcraft accusations against Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge
- The 1934 parade celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the founding of Ipswich
- The Burke Heel Factory and Canney Lumber Fire, June 19, 1933
- The hanging of Ezra Ross and Bathsheba Spooner, July 2, 1778
- The Great Salem Fire, June 25, 1914
- Seating in the Meeting House
- In English ways
- The Witchcraft Trial of Elizabeth Morse of Newbury, 1680
- Rum runners
- Nancy’s Corner
- Sally Weatherall
- First Church burns, June 13, 1965
- 19th Century: Religion divided the town
- “Dying Confession of Pomp, a Negro Man Who Was Executed at Ipswich on the 6th August, 1795”
- The Legend of Pudding Street
- The old elm tree
- Samuel Symonds’ house
- The Letters of Joseph Hodgkins and Sarah Perkins
- Ipswich at war
- The Ipswich jails
- The trolley comes to Ipswich, June 26, 1896
- Little Neck Nostalgia
- Postcards from Salem
- The Cape Ann Earthquake, November 18, 1755
- Along the Ipswich River
- The Great Newburyport fire, May 31, 1811
- Mothers Day Flood, May 14-16, 2006
- Sullivan’s Corner, the last years of the farm
- The Proximity Fuze: How Ipswich women helped win WW II
- The “Little Old Lady from Ipswich” who was seen around the world
- Strawberry Hill and Greenwood Farm
- Taking to the air in Ipswich, 1910-11
- Rachel Clinton arrested for witchcraft, May 28, 1692
- Roads to Paradise
- The Grand Wenham Canal and the Topsfield Linear Common
- William Clancy, WWI hero
- Warned Out
- Killing wolves
- Hammatt Street, Brown Square and Farley Brook
- Historical Commission issues statement on over-development in historic neighborhoods
- The Legend of Heartbreak Hill
- The Great Dying 1616-1619, “By God’s visitation, a wonderful plague”
- Legendary ships of Salem
- Who Were the Agawam Indians, Really?
- Choate-Caldwell House, 16 Elm St. (Now at Smithsonian)
- Lords Square
- “We walked in the clouds and could not see our way”
- The “Dungeons of Ipswich” during the War of 1812
- Dow Brook and Bull Brook
- The Ipswich clam
- The Legend of Goody Cole
- Samuel Goodhue’s pier
- The “Detested Tea” and the Ipswich Resolves
- Dustbane–sawdust in a can!
- “Ipswich Town” by James Appleton Morgan
- Photos from Ipswich Town Reports
- April 1, 1970: The Massachusetts Legislature challenges the Vietnam War
- Newburyport and its Neighborhood in 1874, by Harriet Prescott Spofford
- The Ipswich Riverwalk mural
- Depot Square
- Charles Wendell Townsend, Ipswich naturalist
- The “Birthplace of American Independence”
- The Ipswich Company, Massachusetts State Guard, 1942
- Captain Arthur H. Hardy, 1972
- A tragic story from old Gloucester
- John Winthrop’s journal of the ship Arbella’s voyage to America, March 29 – July 8, 1630
- Clam Battle!
- Ipswich, Slavery and the Civil War
- Three old houses that stood on High Street at Manning and Mineral
- Eunice Stanwood Caldwell Cowles
- The Amazing Story of Hannah Duston, March 14, 1697
- Haselelponah Wood
- Lord Timothy Dexter
- Ipswich Museum Sunday strolls, April – May, 2021
- Troubles with Sheep
- Police open fire at the Ipswich Mills Strike, June 10, 1913
- Four-year-old Dorothy Good is jailed for witchcraft, March 24, 1692
- Daniel Denison
- Building a ship in Essex
- The North Shore and the Golden Age of Cycling
- 1793 and 1818: the “Burden of the Poor” divides Ipswich into 3 towns, Ipswich, Hamilton and Essex
- 1639: “The pigs have liberty”
- The Clammer
- Wreck of the Edward S. Eveleth, October 1922
- The Spectre Leaguers, July 1692
- Along the Old Bay Road
- Wrecks of the coal schooners
- A short history of Ipswich dog laws
- The Ipswich River
- How I came to Ipswich
- The Ipswich Convention and the Essex Result
- One Third for the Widow
- 1894: the Year that Ipswich Burned
- A Wager on the Rooster
- Lydia Wardwell on her presentment for coming naked into Newbury meeting house
- The Christian Wainwright house, North Main St., moved to Market St., demolished
- The Bull Brook Paleo-Indian Discovery
- The Ipswich Town Farm, 1817-1928
- “Dalliance and too much familiarity”
- Ipswich town meeting
- Little Neck
- Emma Jane Mitchell Safford
- The Ipswich lighthouse
- Parades
- The missing dunes at Castle Neck
- Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the colony’s first published poet
- History of Great Neck
- The Great Ipswich Fright, April 21, 1775
- Persecution of Quakers by the Puritans
- Bombshell from Louisbourg
- Moll Pitcher, the fortune teller of Lynn and Marblehead
- Ipswich, the Brookfield Massacre and King Philip’s War
- The ghost of Harry Maine
- Candlewood Road
- Soffron Brothers Ipswich Clams
- Supercontinents, ice ages, and the hills of Ipswich
- The reluctant pirate from Ipswich, Captain John Fillmore
- A photographic history of the Ipswich Mills Dam
- John Dunton’s visit to Ipswich and Rowley in 1686
- Living Descendants of the Native Americans of Agawam
- Ralph W. Burnham, Antiques and Hooked Rugs
- The Strand Opera House and Theater
- John Updike, the Ipswich years
- “Preserve and protect”
- The Ipswich Townie Test
- John Winthrop Jr., here and gone
- Glover’s Wharf and the Ipswich coal industry
- Something to Preserve
- The steamship “Carlotta”
- The Tragedy of the Wilderness: The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 4
- Drunkards, liars, a hog, a dog, a witch, “disorderly persons” and the innkeeper
- Life magazine takes a new look at the old Whipple House, October 1944
- The first jailbreak in the Colony, March 30, 1662
- Sarah Goodhue’s advance directive, July 14, 1681
- “Brought to Civility” — The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 2
- The Railroad comes to Ipswich, December 20, 1839
- Around the fireplace
- How to run for the Select Board
- Gathering salt marsh hay
- The day Nute Brown crashed through the Choate Bridge
- The shipwrecks at Ipswich Bar
- Joseph Ross, 19th Century Ipswich bridge builder
- The Middle Circumferential Highway (that never happened)
- The Hayes Hotel
- 1893 Birdseye map of Ipswich
- A photographic and chronological history of the Ipswich Schools
- The Blizzard of ’78, February 5, 1978
- Great Sorrows, the Deadly “Throat Distemper” of 1735-36
- George Dexter’s Ipswich
- Ipswich Red Raiders, “a melting pot of awesome contenders!”
- Arthur Wesley Dow
- Riverbend, the Barnard estate (Marguery Restaurant), 1915
- The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner
- Photos from the Great Snow of 2015
- The Postman Only Rang Once…….
- Ipswich and the Salem witchcraft trials
- The Peat Meadows
- Dogtown, its history and legends
- How Ipswich celebrated the end of the Revolutionary War
- Discovery of native American shell heap on Treadwell’s Island, 1882
- The Marblehead smallpox riot, January 1774
- Native American Influence on English Fashions
- Rowdy Nights at Quartermaster Perkins’ Tavern
- 2020 Mary Conley award for historic preservation
- Jake Burridge, the sailor
- The ancient names of Ipswich streets and places
- Jeffreys’ Neck Road
- PTSD in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- After electoral defeat, neither Adams President attended his successor’s inauguration
- “Wording it over the sheep” and behaving badly
- Bill George’s nostalgic look at old Ipswich
- The wearing of long hair and wigs
- “At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?”
- Shay’s Rebellion
- The mill girl’s letter: “I can make you blush.”
- Ipswich Open Space drone videos
- The Bones of Masconomet
- Names of the Ipswich slaves
- Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America, May 14, 1878
- Historic Ipswich in black and white
- A good year for history
- Bruce Laing
- Santa hits the Ipswich lightkeeper’s house, December 24, 1937
- The Body of Liberties, the “Ipswich Connection,” and the Origin of written Constitutionalism in Massachusetts
- Prominent Members of the early Ipswich bar
- President Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation
- A stroll down Water Street
- John Adams’ long walk through the Neck
- The Power of a mark
- 2020 Ipswich Art Show
- Newburyport interactive map keeps history alive
- Fences Make Good Neighbors
- High-posted Capes
- Flawed people who did their best are back in town | Ipswich Local News
- Special Town Meeting approves changes to Demolition Review Bylaw
- The plantations at New Meadows, now Topsfield
- Ipswich Bluffs
- A town of immigrants
- The deadly 1896 and 1911 New England heat waves
- The Knobbs
- The courtship and marriage of William Durkee and Martha Cross
- Early voting and voting by mail in the Sept. 1 primary election
- The Shatswell Fife and Drum Corps
- Remembering VJ Day – 75 years ago, August 14, 1945
- The not-so-humble beginnings of Olde Ipswich Days | Ipswich Local News
- Ancient Prejudice against “the Indians” Persists in Essex County Today
- Conspiracy theories in Colonial America
- Sustainable Ipswich
- Pink Flamingos, “more musings from a musty mind”
- Ruth Strachan
- Behold, a Pale Corpse
- Massachusetts Provincial Law: “An Act to Prevent the Destruction of Alewives on the Ipswich River”
- Early American Gardens
- Massachusetts opposition to the Mexican-American War
- Green crabs in the salt marsh
- “My grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson.”
- The Fox Creek Canal
- 1816, the year without summer
- Abbott Lowell Cummings, author of “The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay”
- Wreck of the steamer Laura Marion, December 23, 1899
- Lucy Kimball
- The Dark Day, May 19, 1780
- Gettin’ away on the ‘Pike
- 14 years ago: the “Mill Road Linear Park”
- The Giles Firmin Park: from tannery to arboretum to playground
- The farm at Wigwam Hill
- Socially isolated at Crane Beach, Easter weekend 2020
- Lessons from historic epidemics
- The “Hum”
- The Essex County Receptacle for Idiots and the Insane at Ipswich
- Saving the Rooster
- The Willowdale Mill
- The Miles River
- Ipswich Notable Persons
- Ipswich Conservation Commission declines to consider safety concerns for Jeffreys Neck Road
- Snowy Owl
- Her name was Patience
- Photos from Clamtown
- The clock tower at Hamilton First Church
- Ipswich in the Civil War
- An Eulogy on the Illustrious Character of the late General George Washington
- Real Deal Election Reform
- Jack Helfant, the hermit of Sandy Point, 1962-67
- The Hovey clan and Knowlton’s Close, a 19th Century neighborhood
- The Tithingman at the Ipswich Meeting House
- Photos of the dunes late on a winter afternoon
- Nuclear Ipswich, 1967-1970
- “Mill End” Ipswich
- The edge of a warming world
- The Boy Who Couldn’t Remember
- Market Street
- The Newburyport Tea Party
- The Lord-Ellsworth farm
- Madame Shatswell’s cup of tea
- Ipswich Caring
- Wind power from the Berkshires lights Ipswich homes
- Grants for Great Marsh and Ipswich River | Ipswich Local News
- Alexander Hamilton: “The Ultimate Object”
- Images of Ipswich in the winter
- Col. Nathaniel Shatswell and the Battle of Harris Farm
- The Plum Island Salt Company
- Mason’s Claim
- The Cricket
- Colonial New England Funerals
- Crossing the tracks on High Street
- Ipswich Arts and Illumination
- Ipswich Pine
- 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
- Joseph Stockwell Manning, a Civil War hero from Ipswich
- The defiant Samuel Appleton
- Strong drink
- Ipswich Cultural Council’s 33rd Annual Art Show, Oct. 4 – 6
- Theodore Wendel’s Ipswich
- The Choate Bridge
- Reply by the Town of Ipswich to the Boston Pamphlet, December 28, 1772
- The Agawam Diner
- Recollections of A Boy’s Life In The Village
- The Highs & Lows of the Rowley River
- Topsfield Road is dangerous for cyclists
- Tales of Olde Ipswich by Harold Bowen
- 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
- When Herring Were Caught by Torchlight
- Zumi’s coffee double duty
- This Old House visits the Ipswich 1634 Meadery
- To live locally
- Jane Hooper, the fortune-teller
- How the Irish Made Their Mark in New England
- Help update the Ipswich Community Development Plan
- Wreck of the Ada K. Damon
- The Commons
- County Street, Sawmill Point, and bare hills
- Ipswich Mills Dam feasibility study
- The Cape Ann Sea Serpent
- The Town Wharf
- Ipswich Pillow lace
- 1788 Massachusetts Act banning “any African or Negro”
- Ipswich Manning house at the MFA
- Acadian exiles in Ipswich, 1755
- Self-governed at Market Square
- 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
- The dunes at Castle Neck
- 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
- The Green Street Bridge
- 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
- Adrift on a Haystack, December 1786
- Ipswich to Marietta, December 1787
- The Great Snows of 2011 and 2015
- 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
- Diamond Stage
- Wreck of the Deposit, December 23, 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
- The Conscience of a Loyalist
- 2018 Mary Conley Award
- 2017 Mary Conley Award
- Mass Moments: Quakers Outlawed, December 3, 1658
- “A priceless reservoir of early American history”
- 2018 photos from Crane Beach and Castle Neck
- The Ipswich Revolt of 1687
- Freedom for Jenny Slew
- The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic in Ipswich
- View of Ipswich from a roof
- John Eales, Beehive Maker
- The temptations of John Dane, a Declaration of Remarkable Providences
- “To the Inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich,” from Thomas Jefferson
- The Free Press
- A century ago – The Spanish Flu epidemic raged in Massachusetts in 1918
- Daniel Hovey
- “In the Good Old Summer Time” – Swampscott Estates
- The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, 1679
- A very old pear tree grows in Danvers
- 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 at its 60th anniversary
- Unrequited love and an Ipswich murder-suicide
- Two Taverns for Two Susannas
- The “Great White Hurricane,” March 11, 1888
- Voices of the Great Marsh
- Market Square, a “sign of the times?”
- What could be more funner than working in the summer.
- Ipswich as described by John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Ipswich Town Flag
- Disorder in the Corn Fields: The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 3
- 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
- Manitou in Context
- “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
- Stories from the Courts
- Samuel Symonds, gentleman: complaint to Salem court against his two servants, 1661
- 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
- Daniel Low’s Silver “Witch Spoons” among Salem’s First Souvenirs
- The hanging of John Williams and William Schooler, July 1637
- The “new” houses on East Street
- The ABCs of Town Meeting
- Horses and Equestrians
- To secure a competence
- The stagecoach in Ipswich
- The APD: A balance between the community and the individual
- The Old Tann Flats
- 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
- Life in the summer of polio
- The Karma of Modern Problems
- Governing Ipswich
- The Lakemans Lane Barn
- The women of Chebacco build a Meeting House, March 21, 1679
- Marblehead is established, May 6, 1635
- Maple Ave.
- Patronage and Scandal at the Ipswich Customs House
- Sketches of Cape Ann
- A St. Patrick’s Day Reflection
- Lynn Shoeworkers Strike, Feb. 22, 1860
- High Spirits on Town Hill
- Jefferson’s Warning to the White House
- 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
- Born in a refuge camp
- Battles of the bridges
- An MLK Day Reflection – “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
- The Civil War Monument
- The Lowell Offering
- The Great Agawam Stable Fire
- Measuring Time–by an hourglass
- A Very Ipswich Christmas
- George Washington returns to Mount Vernon, Christmas Eve 1783
- American Town
- Interesting Time To Be Alive
- Ipswich Mills Dam video
- Pearson-Dummer house, Rowley
- The Constitutional Convention and establishment of the Electoral College
- The “Commonwealth”
- Remembering Poe
- County Street
- Hurricanes and winter storms
- Teddy Roosevelt’s “whistlestop” in Ipswich, 1912
- Linebrook Parish
- Washington and Liberty Streets
- Nathaniel Ward: The Simple Cobbler of Agawam in America
- Argilla Road
- East Street
- 1910 Ipswich census and maps
- The 2016 Ipswich drought
- The Bay Circuit Trail in Ipswich
- Thomas Dennis, legendary Ipswich joiner
- Abraham Knowlton, “Workman of rare skill”
- Asbury Grove Methodist Camp Meeting, Hamilton MA
- 19th Century political toasts
- The old tool guys Jake Burridge and Jim Giannakakis visit the Heard House
- Ipswich during World War II
- Historic people
- The British attack on Sandy Bay
- Ghosts of Independence Day
- An Amazing Coincidence on July 4, 1826
- Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- 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 great and famous not so gentle Ipswich putdown
- A Heated Battle – Lodge vs. Curley 1936
- Mass Moments: Puritans Leave for Massachusetts
- The Merchant Princes, Cyrus Wakefield and George Peabody
- Glen Magna and the Joseph Peabody Family of Salem
- Remembering Taffy Hill
- Debatable Discourse, or Mud Slinging Made Easy!
- Primary Primer
- Colonial and Colonial Revival houses
- Primary Colors
- Ipswich after a snowstorm, circa 1900
- Playoff-Grade Guinness Beef Stew
- The Cold Friday of January 19, 1810
- No matter how you roll the dice, it’s still a lot of Clams!
- Party Poopers for a Parliament
- Something Wicked Your Way Comes
- A simple badge and gun does not a copper make
- Wreck of the Hesperus, January 6, 1839
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