The end to the Great Depression coincided with America's entry into World War II. The Ipswich Guard was stationed on Old England Rd., and Sylvania employees worked on a top-secret project. Minesweepers and other small craft were produced at Robinson's Boatyard.
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The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
The Proximity Fuze: How Ipswich women helped win WW II
William Clancy, WWI hero
The “Dungeons of Ipswich” during the War of 1812
April 1, 1970: The Massachusetts Legislature challenges the Vietnam War
On April 1st, 1970, both houses of the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill known as the "Shea Act," which declared that no inhabitant of Massachusetts "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that has not been declared a war by Congress, under Article I of the U.S. Constitution.
The “Birthplace of American Independence”
Resistance by the citizens and leaders of Ipswich to a tax imposed by the Crown in 1687 is commemorated in the seal of the town of Ipswich, which bears the motto, "The Birthplace of American Independence 1687."
The Ipswich Company, Massachusetts State Guard, 1942
Captain Arthur H. Hardy, 1972
Daniel Denison
Bombshell from Louisbourg
How Ipswich celebrated the end of the Revolutionary War
Acadian exiles in Ipswich, 1755
Leslie’s Retreat, or how the Revolutionary War almost began in Salem, February 26, 1775
“To the Inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich,” from Thomas Jefferson
The Embargo Act of 1807 put New England ports at a standstill and its towns into a depression. The Ipswich Town Meeting petitioned the President to relieve "the people of this once prosperous country from their present embarrassed and distressed condition." The town found Jefferson's answer "Not Satisfactory."