Wreck of the Ada K. Damon
Christmas, 1909 witnessed the heaviest storm in many years. The ship was wrecked during the captain’s first trip for a load of sand from the plentiful supply on Plum Island.
Tag: Sand schooner
Today’s favorite posts
- My Ipswich connections
- Painting your historic house, a guide to colors and color schemes
- Historic homes and scenic landscapes
- Settlers and early inhabitants of Ipswich
- Wreck of the Ada K. Damon
- The Ipswich Visitor Center
- Native Americans of the North shore
- Historic and interactive maps of Ipswich
- The Crane Estate (1928)
- The "Hum"
August history
- Timeline of the Flu Pandemic of 1918 in Ipswich
- The Great Revere Train wreck, August 26, 1871
- Lafayette returns to Ipswich
- Ipswich Chronicle Report of the 250th Anniversary Exercises, August 16, 1884
- “To the Inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich,” from Thomas Jefferson
- “Dying Confession of Pomp, a Negro Man Who Was Executed at Ipswich on the 6th August, 1795”
Links
- Bike New England
- Essex County Greenbelt
- Essex County Trail Association
- Essex National Heritage Area
- Every Ipswich in the world
- Historic New England
- Ipswich Green Team
- Ipswich Museum
- Ipswich Public Library Archives
- Ipswich River Watershed Association
- Ipswich Visitors Center
- North Shore Cyclists
- State Parks and Forests
- Streets of Salem
- Town of Ipswich
- Trustees of Reservations
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