The town voted in 1861 to build County Street and its stone arch bridge, connecting Cross and Mill Streets. A Woolen mill, saw mill, blacksmith shop and veneer mill operated near the bridge.
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Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapses and burns, killing workers; January 10, 1860
The Ipswich Riverwalk mural
Ipswich during World War II
January 12, 1912: Lawrence Bread and Roses strike
The Mill Road Bridge and the Isinglass Factory
“Kiss of Death” at New England textile mills
The Greek Hotel
The Burke Heel Factory and Canney Lumber Fire, June 19, 1933
The Proximity Fuze: How Ipswich women helped win WW II
Hammatt Street, Brown Square and Farley Brook
Police open fire at the Ipswich Mills Strike, June 10, 1913
The Ipswich River
Soffron Brothers Ipswich Clams
Soffron Brothers were the exclusive suppliers of clams to the Howard Johnson chain for 32 years, which featured Ipswich Fried Clams on the menu. The four brothers, Tom, George, Pete and Steve, were the children of Greek immigrants who came to work at the Ipswich mills. Their Ipswich factory was at Brown Square in the building that now houses the Ipswich Ale Brewery.
A photographic history of the Ipswich Mills Dam
Arthur Wesley Dow cyanotype (circa 1900) of the earlier footbridge at the dam. Until 350 years ago, the Ipswich River ran unencumbered from its origin 35 miles upstream, carving its way through a 148-square-mile watershed. Herring, shad, salmon and alewife swam upstream to spawn. Thomas Franklin Waters noted that, "Great shoals of alewives came up… Continue reading A photographic history of the Ipswich Mills Dam