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Tag: 1839

The Railroad comes to Ipswich, December 20, 1839

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 Gordon Harris1 Comment

The stagecoach era ended abruptly when the Salem tunnel opened, and two days later on December 20, 1839, a train from Boston made its first passage through Ipswich. The opening of the railroad and the end of stagecoach travel led to the decline of Ipswich as one of the most important towns of Massachusetts.

Posted in HistoryTagged 1839, December, Depot

Awful Calamities: the Shipwrecks of December, 1839

November 30, 2021 Gordon HarrisLeave a comment
Ships off Liverpool in the Great Storm of 1839

Three gales of unequaled fury and destructiveness swept along our coast carrying desolation and death in their stormy pathway, and overwhelming many families in the deepest mourning.

Posted in History, Shipwrecks, Storms, winterTagged 1839, December, disaster, Gloucester, Marblehead, Rockport, storm

Wreck of the Hesperus, Dec.15, 1839

January 3, 2021December 23, 2022 Gordon Harris18 Comments

"It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughtèr, To bear him company."

Posted in Legends, Shipwrecks, StormsTagged 1839, Gloucester, Hesperus, January, Norman's Woe

Wreck of the Deposit, December 23, 1839

December 21, 2018December 21, 2022 Gordon HarrisLeave a comment
Wreck of the Deposit in Ipswich Bay

Dec. 23, 1839 two days before Christmas a storm caught the schooner "Deposit" on her passage out of Belfast, Maine. Capt. Cotterall was lost, and several of the crew were buried at the Old South Cemetery.

Posted in ShipwrecksTagged 1839, December, storm, Susan Howard Boice
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