The Puritan settlers of Ipswich established the town in 1634 in an area the Native American inhabitants called “Agawam.” Stories and pages on this site:
- The Legend of Heartbreak Hill
- Joseph English: Loyalty and Survival in the Life of a Colonial Native Scout
- The Great Dying 1616-1619, “By God’s visitation, a wonderful plague”
- The Bull Brook Paleo-Indian Discovery
- Emma Jane Mitchell Safford
- Ipswich, the Brookfield Massacre and King Philip’s War
- Discovery of native American shell heap on Treadwell’s Island, 1882
- PTSD in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- The Bones of Masconomet
Historic Ipswich 