This site is produced by historian Gordon Harris, and is not officially affiliated with the Town of Ipswich, its boards or commissions, or the Ipswich Museum. © Gordon Harris 2023.
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- Gordon Harris, this site: gordonharris2@gmail.com
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COMPLETE INDEX
Pages
- Historic Ipswich
- “Labor in Vain House,” c.1720 (Labor in Vain-Fox Creek private road)
- 1 High Street, the Nathaniel Rogers Old Manse (1727)
- 1 Highland Avenue, the Wainwright School (1890)
- 1 Lords Square, Payne School (1802)
- 1 Manning Street, the E.H. Martin house (1880)
- 1 Meeting House Green, the First Congregational Church (1971)
- 1 Old England Road, Moritz B. Philipp and Jane Peterson estate (1885)
- 1 Poplar Street, the Lathrop house (1912)
- 1 Scotton’s Lane, the Choate-Scotton house (c 1863)
- 1 South Green, the Captain John Whipple House (1677 / 1725)
- 1 Turkey Shore Road, the Burnham-Patch-Day house c1670-1730
- 10 Argilla Rd., Harry Joyce house (c 1885)
- 10 Blaisdell Terrace (c 1900)
- 10 Brown Square, Tedfords Lumber (1933)
- 10 Brown Street, Essex Hosiery Company worker housing (c 1900)
- 10 County Street, the Dennis – Dodge House (1740)
- 10 East Street, the Nathaniel Harris house (1819)
- 10 Hammatt St., the old South Church Vestry (1857)
- 10 Liberty St., the Brown house (c 1900)
- 10 Manning Street, the G. Haskell house (circa 1890)
- 10 Mineral Street, the W. Smith house (c 1860)
- 10 Riverbank Lane, the John W. Newman house (c 1880)
- 10 Summer Street, the Charles and Abigail Cotton / Moses Harris House (1838)
- 10 Washington St., the Mary Holmes – Captain John Lord house (b. 1770)
- 10 Woods Lane, the Edward and Eliza Plouff house (1837)
- 100 High Street, the Joseph Fowler house (1720 – 1756)
- 101 Central Street, Newton house (c 1900)
- 102 County Road, the Rowell-Homans house (c 1865)
- 103 High Street, the William Merchant house (1670)
- 104 Essex Rd., the Joseph and Abigail Marshall farm (1869)
- 104 High Street, the John Kimball house (1715)
- 106 Argilla Road, the Octavia Hamlin house (1784)
- 106 High St. the Caleb Kimball house (1715)
- 107 Argilla Road, Argilla Farm (c. 1805)
- 107 Central Street, the Collins house (c 1880)
- 108 Central Street, the George W. Baker house (1872)
- 108 High St., the Dow-Harris house (1735)
- 109 Central Street, Daniel and Mary Collins house (1873)
- 11 Argilla Rd. (c. 1900)
- 11 County Street, the Bennett – Caldwell house (1725)
- 11 Depot Square, Russell’s Lunch (circa 1900)
- 11 Liberty Street, the Levi Howe house (c 1870)
- 11 Poplar Street, the George H. Green house, (c. 1890)
- 11 South Village Green, the Gables (1838), David Baker
- 11 Summer Street, the Nathaniel Hovey house (1718)
- 11 Topsfield Road, the Jacob and William G. Brown house (b 1832)
- 11 Waldingfield Road, “Applefield,” the Oliver Appleton Farm (1759 and earlier)
- 11 Warren Street, the Old Warren Fire House and School (1884)
- 11 Woods Lane, the Merrifield house (1792)
- 110 Central Street, the Samuel Baker house (before 1884)
- 110 High Street, the John Kimball Jr. house (1730)
- 111 Central Street, the Albert and Annie Garland house (1894)
- 112 High Street, Timothy Ross house, 1840
- 114 High Street, the Tibbets-Fowler house (1860)
- 114 Topsfield Road, the Goodhue – Adams house (1763)
- 115 High Street, the Baker – Sutton house (1725)
- 116 High Street, the Samuel Rutherford house (1860)
- 117 County Road, the Hellenic Center (1904)
- 117 High Street, Brown’s Manor (1886)
- 118 High Street, the Aaron Rutherford house (1860)
- 12 Argilla Road, the Norman J. Bolles house (c 1900)
- 12 Brown St. (c 1890)
- 12 Green Street, the Andrew Burley house (1688)
- 12 High Street, the William Russell House (1890)
- 12 Liberty St., Charles Brown house (c 1890)
- 12 Manning Street, the Edward T. Pike house (1885)
- 12 Market Street, the Abraham Wait house (1832)
- 12 Meeting House Green, the First Church Vestry (1832)
- 12 North Main Street, Treadwell’s Inn (1737)
- 12 Summer Street, the Ezra W. Lord house (1848)
- 12 Warren Street, the Louisa Wells house (c1700)
- 12 Washington Street, the Patrick Riley house (1880)
- 12 Water Street, the Glazier – Sweet house (1728)
- 12 Woods Lane, Grant’s Barn (1865)
- 12 Woods Lane, the Joshua B. Grant house (before 1878)
- 124 High Street, the Joseph King house (1856)
- 126 County Road, Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital (1916-1987)
- 126 High Street, Burnham’s Antiques (c 1920)
- 13 Argilla Road, Thomas and Elizabeth Brown house (c 1844)
- 13 East St., Ignatius Dodge Shoe Manufacturing (b.1856)
- 13 High Street, the Joseph Willcomb house (1669-1693)
- 13 Liberty St., the Roberts house (c 1900)
- 13 Manning St., the Fields house, (c. 1900)
- 13 Mount Pleasant Avenue, the Mary Nugent house (1874)
- 13 Spring Street, the George V. Millett house (1886)
- 13 Summer Street, the Daniel Clark house (1872)
- 130 Topsfield Road, the Robert Wallis house (1703)
- 136 County Rd., the Francis Henry Richardson house (1902)
- 14 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
- 14 Brown St., Mitchell-Ralph house (c 1890)
- 14 Candlewood Road, the Joseph Brown and Elizabeth Perkins house (1779)
- 14 East Street, the Baker – Newman house (1725)
- 14 High Street, the George Lord house (1857)
- 14 Liberty Street, the George B. Brown house (1898)
- 14 Manning Street (c 1915)
- 14 Mineral Street (c 1915)
- 14 Summer St., the Isaiah Rogers house (c 1870)
- 15 Argilla Road, the George and Mabelle Dexter house (1893)
- 15 County Street, the Rev. Levi Frisbie house (1788)
- 15 East Street: Dawson’s Bakery; James and Louise Glover house (c 1870)
- 15 Elm Street, the Old Town Hall Annex (c 1920)
- 15 Liberty St. (c 1870)
- 15 Manning Street (c 1920)
- 15 South Main Street, the Caldwell Block (1870)
- 15 Summer Street, the Jonathan Pulcifer house (1718)
- 153 Argilla Road, the Isaac Goodale house (1669)
- 155 Argilla Road, the Holman-Ilsley house, c 1790 (moved here in 1951)
- 16 Brown St., the Leno house (1890)
- 16 County Street, the Abraham Knowlton house (1726)
- 16 East Street, the Lakeman-Johnson house (c 1840)
- 16 Elm Street, the Baker – Tozer house (1835)
- 16 Elm Street, Within These Walls
- 16 Fellows Road, the Ruth Fellows house (1714, altered beyond recognition)
- 16 High Street, the Jacob Manning house (1818)
- 16 Liberty St., the Martha Curtis house (1885)
- 16 Manning St. (c 1900)
- 16 Maple Avenue, the William H. Bodwell house, 1890
- 16 Mineral Street, Wise Saddle Shop (c.1742 /1801)
- 16 North Main Street, the Stephen Coburn house (1845)
- 16 Summer Street, the Treadwell house (1852)
- 16 Topsfield Road, the Joseph Peatfield house and nursery (1877)
- 16 Washington Street, the Patrick Riley house (c 1865)
- 164 Argilla Rd. the Francis Cogswell homestead, 1743
- 166 Argilla Rd. (1913)
- 166 Linebrook Road, the William Lummus house (before 1832)
- 168 Argilla Road, the Tilton-Smith house (c 1720)
- 17 Argilla Road, the Samuel Wade – S. F. Canney house (1845)
- 17 County Street, Perkins and Daniels Shoe Factory (1843)
- 17 High Street, the Thomas Lord house (after 1658)
- 17 Liberty St., the Blaisdell house (c 1870)
- 17 Manning Street, the Candlewood School (1856) (moved to this location)
- 17 Mineral St., the Baxter-Adamowicz house, c 1885
- 17 Spring Street, the David Dow house, 1857
- 17 Summer St., the William and Margaret Chapman house (after 1832)
- 17 Turkey Shore Road, the John Edward Norman house (1895)
- 173 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
- 173 Linebrook Road, the Kozeneski farm (c 1900, demolished 2019)
- 175 County Road, the William Manning house (1820)
- 176 Argilla Rd., “Thatchbanks” (1912)
- 178 Argilla Road, the Stephen Smith house (1742)
- 17th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 18 East Street, the Baker-Dodge house (1727)
- 18 Green Street, the Isaac Stanwood Jr. house (1812)
- 18 Hammatt Street, the Ipswich gas generator building (1877-2018)
- 18 Liberty St. (1885)
- 18 North Main Street, the Charles Kimball house (1834)
- 18 Washington Street, Sanford Peatfield House (1860)
- 187 Argilla Rd. (1907)
- 188 Argilla Road, the Oliver Cogswell house, 1815
- 18th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 19 Brown Square (1903)
- 19 High Street, the John Blake house (1885)
- 19 Mineral Street (1856)
- 19 North Main Street, Thomas & Margaret Heard Manning house (1799)
- 19 Putnam Rd., the Lezon home (c 1910)
- 19 Summer Street, the Solomon Lakeman house (before 1745)
- 197 County Rd.,”Applegate” (1875)
- 19th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Period Houses in Ipswich Massachusetts
- 2 Brewery Place (Brown Square) Ipswich Ale Brewery (c 1900)
- 2 Central Street, the Tyler Building (1906)
- 2 East Street, the Robert Jordan house (1863)
- 2 Green Street, the John Perkins house (1860)
- 2 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Merrill-Kimball house (1839)
- 2 Labor in Vain Road, the McMahon house (b 1856)
- 2 Meeting House Green, the Joseph N. Farley house (1842)
- 2 Mill Road, the Sullivan house (c 1890)
- 2 North Main Street, the John Appleton house (1707)
- 2 Old England Road, the Captain Jabez Treadwell house (1748)
- 2 Poplar Street, Swasey Tavern (1718)
- 2 Putnam Rd.
- 2 Turkey Shore, the Heard – Lakeman House (1776)
- 20 Manning Street (1902)
- 20 Market Street, the Stacey-Ross house (1734)
- 20 Mineral Street, the Lucy Ackerman house (c 1870)
- 203 Argilla Rd., the William Shurcliff house (1963)
- 207 Argilla Rd., the Sidney Shurcliff house (1935)
- 208 Argilla Road (1917) the Barney-Smith house
- 208 Topsfield Road, the Joseph and Judah Goodhue house (1767)
- 20th Century houses and buildings in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- 21 East Street, the George Russell house (c 1870)
- 21 High Street, the Haskell – Lord house (c 1750)
- 21 Lakemans Lane, the John Manning Farm (c 1825)
- 21 Manning Street
- 21 North Main Street, the Theodore Cogswell house (1880)
- 21 Spring Street, the G. F. Swain summer estate (b 1910)
- 211 Argilla Rd., the Mary Ann Archer Lord house (1902)
- 217 Argilla Road, the Townsend house (1902)
- 219 County Rd., Samuel Appleton “Old House” (1794)
- 22 East Street, the Moses Fellows House (1873)
- 22 Elm St. (c. 1840)
- 22 Mineral Street, the Warner-Harris House (c. 1696, alt. 1835)
- 22 North Main Street, the Colonial Building (1904)
- 23 East Street (c 1860)
- 23 Manning Street (1934)
- 23 Mineral Street, the Lydia and Joseph Lord house (1871)
- 232 Argilla Road, the Patch-Brown-Crockett house (c 1760-85)
- 24 Fellows Rd. (c 1856 & later)
- 24 High Street, the J.W. Gould House (b 1850)
- 24 Manning Street, the A. P. Hills house (c. 1900)
- 24 Market Street, the Aaron Jewett house (c 1800)
- 24 Summer Street, the William E. Barton house (1884)
- 24 Topsfield Road, the Moses Kimball house (1688)
- 240 County Road, the Proctor Estate, New England Biolabs (1895)
- 246 High St., Ipswich Clam Box, (1935)
- 248 High Street, the William Spiller house (c 1838)
- 25 County Street, the J. Caldwell house (c 1860)
- 25 East St, the Stanwood-Willcomb house (1830)
- 25 Green Street, the Ipswich Town Hall (1935)
- 25 Market Street, the Nathaniel R. Farley Shoe Factory (1830-56)
- 25 North Main Street, the Ipswich Public Library
- 251 Topsfield Road, Turner Hill (1900)
- 26 County Street, the John M. Dunnels house (1867)
- 26 East Street, the Staniford – Polly Dole -John Updike house (1687-1720)
- 26 High Street, the Philip Call house (1659, with additions)
- 26 Manning Street, the Sullivan house (1927)
- 26 Mineral Street (c 1870)
- 26 North Main Street, the Agawam House (1806)
- 27 Argilla Rd. (1928)
- 27 East Street, the Widow Elizabeth Caldwell house (1740-1755)
- 27 High Street, the Edward Browne House (c 1650-1750)
- 27 Lakeman’s Lane, the Benjamin Fellows house (c. 1719)
- 27 Market Street, the Ipswich Post Office (1939)
- 27 Northgate Road, the Asa Stone Barn (1839)
- 27 Summer Street, the Thomas Knowlton house (1688)
- 28 County St., the Asa Stone -Theodore Wendel house (1872)
- 28 Mineral Street (c 1880)
- 28 Topsfield Road, Sacred Heart Church (1903)
- 28 Water Street, the Harris – Stanwood House (1696)
- 280 Argilla Road, the Inn at Castle Hill (1860)
- 280 High Street, the Charles and Fostina Guilford house (1880)
- 285 High Street, the Daniel Nourse house (1809)
- 29 High Street, the Daniel Brown Smith house (1819)
- 29 Labor in Vain Rd., the Isaac Foss house (c 1900)
- 29 North Main Street, the Odd Fellows Building (1817)
- 29 Woods Lane, A.L.R. Mahoney house (c 1900)
- 290 High Street, the Jacob Pickard house, (1812)
- 290 Linebrook Rd. the Chapman-Small House
- 296 High Street, the Oliver Bailey house (1831)
- 297 Linebrook Road, the Joseph Chapman house (1720)
- 3 Argilla Rd. (c. 1900)
- 3 Candlewood Rd., the Brown-Whipple house (1812)
- 3 County Street
- 3 East Street, the James W. Perkins house and Provisions (1860)
- 3 High Street, the John Gaines house (1725)
- 3 Hovey Street, the John Kendrick house
- 3 Liberty St., the Foster house (c 1880)
- 3 Loney’s Lane, the Aaron Day Wells house (c 1850)
- 3 Manning St. (after 1910)
- 3 Maple Avenue, the Harland and Blanche Burke house (1916)
- 3 Mineral Street, the Charles H. Baker house (c 1870)
- 3 Newbury Road, the Philomen Foster house and barn (1787)
- 3 Short Street, the Short Street Store (1884)
- 3 Spring Street, the James Scott house (1840)
- 3 Summer Street, the Benjamin Kimball house (Thomas Smith “currier” c 1730, moved in 1803)
- 30 Candlewood Rd., the Ephraim Brown house (1825)
- 30 East Street, the Francis Jordan house
- 30 High Street, the Joseph Bolles house (1722)
- 30 Jeffreys Neck Road, The Searle estate (1910)
- 30 South Main Street, the Old Town Hall (1833)
- 30 Summer Street, the Smith-Barton house (moved 1880)
- 306 Linebrook Road, the Deacon William Foster Conant house (1833)
- 307 High Street, the Moses Jewett house (1759)
- 31 Argilla Rd. (c 1910)
- 31 County Street, Ascension Memorial Episcopal Church (1875)
- 31 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Nathaniel Scott house (1838)
- 31 Mineral Street (c 1870)
- 31 North Main Street, the Methodist Church (1859)
- 31 South Main Street, the Dr. Joseph Manning house (1727)
- 31 Summer Street, the Bartlett house (c 1870)
- 31 Washington St., the Laffy – Chapman – Morrill house (c 1880)
- 310 High Street, the Stephen Pearson house (1808)
- 311 High Street, the Amos Jewett house (1834)
- 315 High Street, the Apphia Jewett house (1834)
- 315 Linebrook Road, the William Conant house (1777)
- 317 High Street, the Capt. George Washington Howe house (1850)
- 32 Washington Street, the Frederick Bray – Daniel Nourse House (c 1870)
- 32 Water Street, the Jabesh Sweet house (1713)
- 320 High Street, the Jonathan Crowell Fox heel factory (1888)
- 320 Linebrook Rd., the Daniel Conant house (1875)
- 321 High Street, the Aaron Jewett – Mark Cate house (1780)
- 327 High Street, the Annie Donovan house (1873, reconstructed in 1914)
- 33 Broadway St., the Barkowski house (c 1920)
- 33 Central Street, Memorial Hall (1921)
- 33 East St., the Old Store (1830)
- 33 High Street, the John and Sarah Dillingham Caldwell house (1660/1709)
- 33 Mineral Street, the Caroline Norman house, 1884 (moved from Central St.)
- 33 North Main Street, the Nathaniel Wait house (1865)
- 34 High Street, the White Horse Inn (1659 / 1763)
- 34 Lakeman’s Lane, the Wade-Kinsman- Cameron house (c 1860)
- 34 Mitchell Road, the Mitchell Farm (1800)
- 34 North Main Street, the William Pulcifer house (1836)
- 341 Linebrook Road, the Lot Conant house (1717, altered beyond recognition)
- 347 Linebrook Road, the Foster-Conant house (1840)
- 35 Central St., the Caldwell-Copp house
- 35 County St., the Lydia and Reuben Daniels house (1863)
- 35 East Street, the Luther Wait house (1810)
- 35 Mill Road, the Captain William Warner house (1780)
- 35 Mineral Street, the Smith house (c 1835)
- 35 Washington Street, the Charles and Margaret Bell house (c 1890)
- 36 Candlewood Road, the Martin Keith house (1807, moved 1995)
- 36 North Main Street, the Dr. John Manning house (1769)
- 36 South Main St., the Hall-Haskell House (Ipswich Visitor Center), 1820
- 36 Summer Street, the John Brocklebank house (1856)
- 36 Water Street, the York – Averill House (1715)
- 37 East Street, the Stephen Baker house (1834)
- 37 High Street, Lord – Baker House (1720)
- 37 South Main Street, Baker’s Store (b. 1828)
- 37 Summer Street, the William H. Jewett house (b 1872)
- 37 Washington Street, the Brown-Grossman-Doucette house (1884)
- 375 Linebrook Rd., the Thomas Foster house (1800)
- 38 Central Street, the Measures building (c 1900)
- 38 East Street, the John Harris house (1743)
- 38 High Street, the Joseph N. Caldwell house (c 1875)
- 38 Newmarch St., the Tobias Lakeman House (1732)
- 38 North Main Street, the Old Post Office (1763)
- 38 Summer Street, the William M. and Jennie Ellsworth house (1881)
- 387 Linebrook Road, David Tulley Perley farm (1880)
- 39 – 41 High Street, the Daniel Lummus house (1746 with earlier elements)
- 39 Broadway St. (1929)
- 39 Mineral Street (c 1920)
- 39 Summer Street, the Foster – Grant house (1717)
- 391 Linebrook Road, Linebrook Parish Church (1848)
- 392 Linebrook Road, the Emerson Howe house (1810)
- 393 Linebrook Rd., the David Tullar Perley house (1851)
- 395 Linebrook Rd., the Alvin T. Guilford house (1835)
- 4 Cameron Avenue (1928)
- 4 East St., the old Methodist Parsonage, 1830
- 4 Elm Street, Condon’s Grocery
- 4 Green Street, the William H. Graves house (1852)
- 4 Highland Ave., the George & Elizabeth Spencer house (c 1910)
- 4 Lords Square, Old Fire House (c 1870)
- 4 Maple Avenue, the Arthur H. and Madeline H. Tozer house (1915)
- 4 Mount Pleasant Ave., the William Hayes building, c 1890
- 4 Old Right Road, the Tenney house (c 1900)
- 4 Water Street, the Jewett house (1849)
- 4-6 Summer Street, the Cotton-Nourse house (1840)
- 40 High Street, the William Caldwell House (1733)
- 40 North Main Street, the Captain Brewer house (1825)
- 40 Summer Street, the Denison Rust house (b 1872)
- 402 Linebrook Rd. (1929)
- 403 Linebrook Road, the Timothy Morse house (1817)
- 41 Candlewood Road, the Boardman house (c 1730)
- 41 Linebrook Road, Old Cross Farm (c 1717)
- 41 Turkey Shore Road, the William Howard House (c.1680/ 1709)
- 41 Washington Street, the George Brown house (1883)
- 41-47 South Main St., R. W. Davis dealership (1930)
- 411 Linebrook Rd. (1938)
- 419 Linebrook Rd., the Eliza Howe Perley house (1840)
- 42 East Street, the Joseph Hovey house (1850)
- 42 Heartbreak Road, the Thomas and John Low house (frame before 1684)
- 42 High Street, the Abner Harris house (c 1800)
- 42 Labor in Vain Road, the Arthur L. Sweetser house (c. 1898)
- 42 North Main Street, the John Johnson house (1871)
- 42 Washington Street, DJ’s Variety Store (1938)
- 421 Linebrook Road, the Abraham Howe barn (1725)
- 43 Argilla Road, the Giddings – Burnham house (b 1667)
- 43 Avery St. (c 1900)
- 43 High Street, the Fitts- Manning-Tyler house (1767)
- 43 Summer Street, the Wilcomb-Pinder house (1718)
- 437 Linebrook Road, the Allen Perley farm (1784)
- 44 Argilla Rd. (c 1930)
- 44 Central St., the Ellen V. Lang house (c 1885)
- 44 East Street, the John Roberts house (c 1870)
- 44 Fellows Road, the Joseph Fellows Jr. house (1734)
- 44 High Street, the Francis Goodhue house (circa 1800)
- 44 Mill Road, Holiday Hill, The William and Violet Thayer house (1897)
- 44 North Main Street, the Harry K. Dodge & Josephine Hurd house (1886)
- 44 Washington St., the Howard Hills house (1905)
- 45 County Street, the Amos Dunnels house (1823)
- 45 Heartbreak Road, the James Burnham house (1690)
- 45 High Street, the John Lummus house (1712)
- 45 North Main Street, the Isaac Flitchner house (1860)
- 46 N. Main Street, the James Damon house (1866)
- 46 Summer Street, the James Foster house (1720)
- 46 Washington Street, the James S. Marble- James Peatfield house (1859)
- 47 County Street, the Benjamin Grant house (1735)
- 47 Jeffreys Neck Rd., the Dodge house, Greenwood Farm (1870)
- 47 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Paine house (1694)
- 47 North Main Street, the George Farley House (1888)
- 48 East St., the Tyler Caldwell house (1860)
- 48 High Street, Samuel W. Baker house (1852)
- 48 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Hannah Aspell house, 1854
- 48 Market Street, the Bailey house (c 1887)
- 48 North Main Street, the Thomas Morley house (c 1750, alt. 1845)
- 48 Summer St., the Alonzo and Abbie Butler house, (1868)
- 48 Turkey Shore Road, the Nathaniel Hodgkins house (1720)
- 49 Candlewood Road, the Robert Kinsman house (b 1714)
- 49 North Main Street, the John Chapman house (1770)
- 49 Turkey Shore Road, the Austin Measures house (1874)
- 5 Argilla Rd. (c 1900)
- 5 County Street, the Richard Rindge / Pindar house (1718)
- 5 Hemlock Drive: Fairview, the Charles Campbell estate (1900)
- 5 Linebrook Rd., the Richard Lane house (1851)
- 5 Maple Avenue, the G. Baxter – Frank Campbell house (1890)
- 5 South Village Green, the Aaron Smith house (1776)
- 5 Spring Street, the Henderson house (c. 1880)
- 5 Summer Street, the Widow Fuller house (1725)
- 5 Wildes Court, the James H. and Frances Lakeman house (circa 1900)
- 5-7 Poplar Street, the Dr. John Calef house (1671)
- 50 Argilla Road, the Burnham-Andrews house (1815)
- 50 Mill Road, the Caleb Warner house (1734)
- 50 North Main Street, the James Brown house (1700 / 1721)
- 50-56 Market Street, the Lord-Sullivan-Haskell house (1847)
- 51 East St., 1845 (demolished)
- 51 Linebrook Road, the Hart House (1678)
- 51 North Main Street, the Sarah Lord house (1849)
- 52 Jeffreys Neck Road, Ross Tavern – Lord Collins house (c 1690)
- 52 Jeffreys Neck Road, Shatswell Planters Cottage (c 1646)
- 52 N. Main Street, the Treadwell – Hale house (1799)
- 52-54 High Street, the Kingsbury – Lord – Harris house (after 1716)
- 53 Argilla Road, the Samuel Kinsman house (1750-77)
- 53 Washington Street, the George W. Smith – Pickard House, (1880)
- 54 S. Main St., the Heard House / Ipswich Museum
- 55 Central Street, Central Fire Station (1907)
- 55 East St. (c 1922)
- 55 Waldingfield Rd., “Waldingfield” (1929)
- 56 Fellows Road, the Josiah Brown house, (1812)
- 56 N. Main St., the Dodge and Spiller Grocery (c 1850)
- 56 Washington Street, the Ephraim Goodhue House (1875)
- 57 High Street, the Stone – Rust – Abraham Lummus house (c 1750)
- 57 North Main Street, the Day-Dodge House (1737)
- 57 South Main Street, Ipswich Mills boarding house (1876)
- 58 North Main Street, the Captain Richard Rogers House (1728)
- 58 Waldingfield Rd., the Hoyt house (c 1885)
- 59 Candlewood Road, the Jeremiah Kinsman house (1752)
- 59 East Street, the Daniel Rindge house (1719)
- 59 South Main Street, the Philomen Dean house (Old Lace Factory) (1716)
- 59 Turkey Shore Road, the Elizabeth and Otis Glover house (c 1870)
- 59 Washington Street, the Charles W. Bamford house (C 1887)
- 6 Agawam Avenue, the Augustine Carey – Captain John Hobbs house (1855)
- 6 East Street, the Daniel Russell house (1818)
- 6 High Street, the Joseph Ross house (1884)
- 6 Highland Ave., the George Spencer Sr. house (c 1880)
- 6 Hovey Street, the Thomas Foulds Ellsworth house (1866)
- 6 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Oliver L. Sanborn house (1855)
- 6 Liberty St. (c. 1890)
- 6 Manning Street, the H. K. Damon house (1890)
- 6 Meetinghouse Green, the Captain Israel Pulcifer house (1812)
- 6 Newbury Road, the Joseph B. Perley house (1865)
- 6 Riverbank Lane, the Henry Rodman Kenyon house (1902)
- 6 South Main Street, the Shoreborne Wilson – Samuel Appleton house (1685)
- 6 Water Street, the Reginald Foster house (1690/1745)
- 6-8 North Main St., Taverner Sparks (c.1671-1710)
- 61 High Street, the Timothy B. Ross house, c 1870
- 61 Market Street, formerly the Damon Block (1982)
- 61 Turnpike Road, the John Foster house (1780)
- 62 East Street, the Treadwell-Wainwright House (1691 / 1726)
- 62 Washington St., the Robert Stone house (1869)
- 63 Turkey Shore Road, the Isaac Foss house (1870)
- 64 County Road, the Southside Store (c. 1836)
- 65 Candlewood Road, the Rhoda Kinsman house ( 1776 / 1818)
- 65 Waldingfield Road, Sunswick (1890)
- 66 Argilla Road, the George Haskell house (1855)
- 66 High Street, the John Harris-Mark Jewett house (1795)
- 66 Labor in Vain Rd., the Giddings-Gould-Weatherall house (1795-1850)
- 67 Turkey Shore Road, the Stephen Boardman house (1720)
- 68 County Road, Calvin Locke’s Folly (1836)
- 68 Essex Rd., the Levi Brown house (1832)
- 68 High Street, the Wood – Lord house (c 1740)
- 68 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Captain John Smith house (c 1740)
- 69 S. Main Street, the Samuel Dutch house (1733, rear section may be older)
- 7 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
- 7 County Street, the Thomas Dennis House (1663-1706)
- 7 East Street, the Sadie Stockwell house (1888)
- 7 Liberty St., the John W. and Annie M. Lord house (C 1867)
- 7 Linebrook Rd. (1914)
- 7 Manning St., the E W. Russell house (c 1890)
- 7 Maple Avenue, the Fred A. Nason house (1896)
- 7 South Village Green, the Rev. John Rogers – Col. John Baker House (c 1700-1761)
- 7 Summer Street, the Thomas Treadwell house (C 1740)
- 70 County Road, the John Hayes house (1910)
- 72 County Road, the David Giddings house (1828)
- 73 High Street, the Nathaniel Lord house (C 1720)
- 74 Essex Rd., the Willard B. and Harriett Manning Kinsman house (1851)
- 76 County Road, the Asa Wade house (1831)
- 76 East Street, the Hodgkins – Lakeman House (c. 1690)
- 77 High Street, the John Kimball house (1680)
- 78 County Road, the Samuel Wade house (1831)
- 78 East Street, the James Glover house (c 1860)
- 78 Washington Street, the Daniel Haskell House (1835)
- 79 Central Street, the Foster Russell Jr. house (1883)
- 79 County Road, the Jacob Manning house (c. 1820)
- 79 East St., Curran house (c 1870)
- 79 High Street, the Thomas H. Lord house (c 1835)
- 8 Agawam Avenue, the Newmarch – Spiller house (1798)
- 8 Brown Street, Timothy Carey house (1890)
- 8 East Street, the Captain Matthew Perkins house (1701)
- 8 High Street, Frederick and Sally Ross house (1887)
- 8 Kimball Ave, the W. B. Richards house (b 1910)
- 8 Liberty Street, (1938)
- 8 Linebrook Rd., the C. Chester Caldwell house
- 8 Manning Street, the Jordan house, (c. 1890)
- 8 Maple Ave., the George Tozer house (circa 1890)
- 8 Meeting House Green, the David T. Kimball House (1808)
- 8 Summer Street, the Daniel Glazier house (1840)
- 8 Warren Street, the James Harris house
- 8 Water Street, the Pengry-Harris-Sutton House (1677-1743, completely reconstructed in 2000)
- 8 Woods Lane, the James Peatfield house (1833)
- 80 Central Street, the Malachi Nolan house (1877)
- 80 East Street, the Perkins – Hodgkins House (c 1700)
- 80 Essex Rd., the Nathaniel and Joanna Kinsman house (c 1770)
- 82 Central St., the Isaac J. Potter house (b 1884)
- 82 County Road, the Brown – Manning house (1835)
- 82 High Street, the John Brewer house (1680)
- 83 Central Street, the International House (1866)
- 83 County Road, the Rogers-Brown-Rust House (1665-1723)
- 83 High Street, the Isaac Lord house, 1696 – 1806
- 84 County Road, the Reverends Daniel Fitz and Moses Welch house (1829)
- 84 High Street, the John Smith house (c 1830)
- 84 Topsfield Rd., the Bosson -Hayward-Goodhue-Jarlowicz house (c. 1874)
- 85 County Road, the John Wade house (1810)
- 85 High Street, the Elizabeth and Phillip Lord house (1774)
- 86 County Road, the Burnham – Brown house (1775)
- 87 Central Street (c 1890)
- 87 High Street, the Sewall Jewett house (1830)
- 88 Central Street, the W. L. Johnson house (c 1880)
- 88 County Road, the Col. Nathaniel Wade House (1727)
- 88-90 High Street, the Shatswell-Tuttle house (right side by 1690 / left,1806)
- 89 Argilla Rd. (1834)
- 89 High Street, the Moses Jewett house (1830)
- 9 Argilla Rd. (c 1900)
- 9 County Street, the Benjamin Dutch house (1705)
- 9 East Street, the Foster Russell house (1856)
- 9 Green Street, the Elizabeth Holland house (1811)
- 9 High Street, the Samuel Newman house (1762)
- 9 Liberty St. (c. 1880)
- 9 Manning St., the Albert P. Hills house (c. 1890)
- 9 Poplar St., the Seward – Mavroides house (1873)
- 9 Woods Lane, the Francis Merrifield – Mary Wade house (1792)
- 90 Central Street, the Brown-Riley house (1897)
- 90 County Road, the William Wade house (1822)
- 91 Central Street, the Sylvanius and Mary Canney house (c 1866)
- 91 Old Right Road, the Jacob Potter house (c 1845)
- 92 Central St., the Abbie G. Lord house, 1871
- 92 County Road, the Nathaniel Wade house and shop (1810)
- 93 High Street, the John Cole Jewett house (1813)
- 935 Bay Road, Hamilton MA, the Dane house
- 94 County Road, Jesse and John Wade’s shop (1888)
- 94 Essex Road, the William G. Horton house (c 1900)
- 95 High Street, the Simon and Hannah Adams house (c. 1700)
- 96 County Road, Old South Church Parsonage (1860)
- 97 Central Street, the Olive and Charles McIntire house (1885)
- 98 Central Street, the William and Abigail Haskell house (b 1884)
- A complete list of Ipswich enlistments in the Civil War
- About this site (with Index)
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- Ipswich houses constructed before 1725 (First Period)
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- Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section A
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- Ipswich Yesterday by Alice Keenan
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- Leslie Road Burial Ground, 169 Leslie Rd., Rowley MA
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- Sullivan’s Corner: The Last Years of the Farm
- Sullivan’s Corner, the backdrop
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- Destination Ipswich: The Dow & Bull Brook Conservtion Areas
- Ipswich Visitor Center temporarily relocates to the Ipswich Museum carriage barn
- Destination Ipswich: the Crane Estate with ICAM
- Building a ship in Essex
- Adele “Kitty” Crockett Robertson
- Freedom for Jenny Slew
- The Dark Day, May 19, 1780
- Destination Ipswich: Strawberry Hill and Greenwood Farm
- Play and recreation in a town of 6000, a recreational study of Ipswich, Massachusetts, November 1914
- Nuclear Ipswich, 1967-1970
- A history of the Ipswich River
- Harvard Graduate School of Design study for downtown Ipswich
- Destination Ipswich: Turkey Hill & Damon Farm
- Asbury Grove Methodist Camp Meeting, Hamilton MA
- The hanging of Elizabeth Attwood, who murdered her “bastard child”
- Destination Ipswich: a walk up Spring Street
- Memento Mori, the Old North Burying Ground
- The Jewel Mill and Stone Arch Bridge
- John Eales, Beehive Maker
- Norm Abram and Matt Diana go inside two old houses
- Unrequited love and a murder-suicide
- Four old houses that stood on High St.
- Kamon Farm-Turkey Hill hike
- Destination Ipswich: a walk in the dunes
- Mark Quilter, upon complaint against him for striking Rebeckah Shatswell
- The “Great White Hurricane,” March 11, 1888
- Women in Ipswich history
- Ipswich Arts Association
- Bundling
- “Dalliance and too much familiarity”
- The Price Act, passed at Ipswich, February 1777
- Leslie’s Retreat, or how the Revolutionary War almost began in Salem, February 26, 1775
- Newburyport Turnpike opens, February 11, 1805: “Over every hill and missing every town”
- The Commons
- Stories from the Courts
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- Nathaniel Ward (1578-1652)
- Measuring Time–by an hourglass
- Old Roads and Bridges of Newbury and Newburyport
- Flight from Rooty Plain
- Linebrook Parish
- The Cold Friday of January 19, 1810
- A visit to the Whipple House with Paul Valcour & Gordon Harris
- Ipswich and the Salem witchcraft trials
- Arthur Wesley Dow’s images of Ipswich
- George Dexter’s early photos of Ipswich
- The Peat Meadows
- Lieutenant Ruhama Andrews and the 1775 Battle of Quebec
- Smallpox
- Ipswich and the breach with Britain
- Saving the Rooster
- Market Street
- Photos of the dunes late on a winter afternoon
- The defiant Samuel Appleton
- Theodore Wendel’s Ipswich
- Strong drink
- The Town Wharf
- County Street, Sawmill Point, and bare hills
- The Fox Creek Canal
- The Devil’s footprint
- Why does Crane Beach have purple sound?
- The Karma of Modern Problems
- Winter walks in the dunes at Castle Neck
- South Main Street
- South Congregational Church
- Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapses and burns, killing workers; January 10, 1860
- Central Street in ashes, January 13, 1894
- Boston’s Great Molasses Flood, January 15, 1919
- The Green Street Bridge
- Manning’s Neck
- The Ipswich Female Seminary
- Tricentennial & 17th Century Day Celebrations
- Ipswich to Marietta, December 1787
- The Great Snows of 2011 and 2015
- Diamond Stage
- The bridges of Ipswich
- Old Toryism, mock Federalism & the Essex Junto
- Argilla Road
- The Great Agawam Stable Fire
- East Street
- Abraham Knowlton, “Workman of rare skill”
- Washington and Liberty Streets
- The temptations of John Dane, a Declaration of Remarkable Providences
- Pingrey’s Plain, the gallows lot
- Samuel Symonds, gentleman: complaint to Salem court against his two servants, 1661
- The Cape Ann Sea Serpent
- The Railroad comes to Ipswich, December 20, 1839
- The Ipswich Town Farm, 1817-1928
- Oh, wintry Christmas of my youth!
- Adrift on a Haystack, December 1786
- The Ipswich Riverwalk mural
- Along the Old Bay Road
- Charles Wendell Townsend, Ipswich naturalist
- Building wooden ships
- Lords Square
- Dow Brook and Bull Brook
- A Chronology of Ipswich Public Works: Telegraph, Telephone, Gas, Water, Electricity, Trash, Sewer, Wind and Solar
- A photographic and chronological history of the Ipswich Schools
- Ipswich during World War II
- “A State of Nature”, Worcester in 1774
- The Intolerable Acts of 1774
- How Christmas came to Ipswich
- John Freeman, an African American Revolutionary War soldier from Ipswich
- The women of Chebacco build a Meeting House
- Persecution of Quakers by the Puritans
- Self-governed at Market Square
- Traditional American Thanksgiving in Art and Song
- Sullivan’s Corner
- Along the Ipswich River
- The Birthplace of American Independence, 1687
- The Sidney Shurcliff Riverwalk
- 300 years on Grape Island
- The Cape Ann Earthquake, November 18, 1755
- November 5: Guy Fawkes Day (“Pope Night”)
- The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
- Block prints from the 1950 IHS calendar: Old Time Ipswich
- Request for Statements of Interest for Public Safety properties
- Old house, new home
- Haunted houses of Ipswich
- Chelmsford Center for the Arts
- Ipswich Hosiery
- The Central Street Victorian neighborhood
- Pioneer in Partnership award
- The Arts Need Space
- The Giles Firmin Park: from tannery to arboretum to playground
- How I came to Ipswich
- The Switch Rideable Artscape
- Living descendants of the Native Americans of Agawam
- Images from the Ipswich Rotary “harnecues,” 1952-55
- Saving the Egypt River
- President Washington visits Ipswich, October 30, 1789
- 1st, 2nd & 3rd period houses in Ipswich
- Account of the soldiers of Chebacco Parish at Bunker Hill
- Wreck of the Edward S. Eveleth, October 1922
- The Legend of Heartbreak Hill
- The Story Behind the Story of Wigwam Hill
- The Revolutionary War letters of Joseph Hodgkins and Sarah Perkins
- The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, 1679
- The Col. Nathaniel Wade house, 88 County Rd. (1727)
- A romantic tale from the Great Snow of Feb. 21-24, 1717
- A History of Clark Pond, Great Neck, Ipswich MA
- Abigail Adams to John Adams: “All men would be tyrants if they could.”
- My father’s letter, Feb. 10, 1948
- The Ipswich Sparrow
- January 12, 1912: Lawrence Bread and Roses strike
- The Marblehead smallpox riot, January 1774
- A very old pear tree grows in Danvers
- Politics of the Archives Redux: Indigenous History of Indigenous Peoples of Essex County, Massachusetts
- The stagecoach
- The 1918 flu epidemic in Ipswich
- The Bay Circuit Trail in Ipswich
- Teddy Roosevelt’s Ipswich “whistlestop,” December 1912
- Wreck of the Falconer, December 17, 1847
- Paul Revere’s not so famous ride through Ipswich, December 13, 1774
- Death in a snowstorm, December 1, 1722
- Awful Calamities: the Shipwrecks of December, 1839
- Fortitude, Rectitude and Attitude. Remembering the Life and Times of Ipswich Police Sergeant Frank Geist
- Yankee dictionary; a compendium of useful and entertaining expressions indigenous to New England
- Summer Street
- Nancy Weare
- The boy who fell beneath the ice
- The Green Street dam
- Election night in Ipswich
- What our ancestors ate
- Ipswich woman survived two train crashes on February 28, 1956!
- An autumn walk in the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary
- Kings Rook and the Stonehenge Club, when Ipswich rocked!
- Play Ball! Bialek Park
- Ipswich in the Great Depression
- David Tenney Kimball, pastor of First Church, 1805 – 1855
- Portraits from Ipswich a century ago
- The Great Colonial Hurricane and the wreck of the Angel Gabriel
- The Spectre Ship of Salem
- Meeting House Green plaque commemorates Lafayette’s visit to Ipswich
- The Mill Road Bridge and the Isinglass Factory
- Ipswich mob attacks Loyalist Representative Dr. John Calef
- Ipswich Village (Upper High St.)
- Nathan Dane
- Saving John Appleton’s house
- Moses and Aaron Pengry and their descendants
- The story of Agnes Surriage, the Marblehead tavern maid
- General Michael Farley
- The grand hotels of Gloucester and Cape Ann
- The Arnold Expedition arrives in Ipswich, September 15, 1775
- Life in the summer of polio
- Mehitable Braybrook, who burned down Jacob and Sarah Perkins’ house, married John Downing and was arrested for witchcraft
- Hurricane Carol, September 6, 1954
- Thomas and Susan French of Ipswich, their sons and daughters
- Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Essex County
- Early Ipswich, “A paradise for politicians”
- Peg Wesson, the Gloucester witch
- Bungalows of Ipswich
- Killed by a swordfish in Ipswich Bay, August 19, 1886
- Wreck of the Watch and Wait, August 24, 1635
- Descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich
- Descendants of John and Judith Gator Perkins of Ipswich
- Homes of the descendants of John Baker of Ipswich
- Land grants & homes of the early settlers of Ipswich
- The Middle Green
- Hannah Jumper leads raid on Rockport liquor establishments, July 8, 1856
- The Muster Murder of 1787
- Ipswich in the Revolutionary War
- Market Square
- The Great Revere Train wreck, August 26, 1871
- Homes of the descendants of Daniel Rindge and Mary Kinsman of Ipswich
- My Ipswich connections
- Homes of the Jewetts
- Homes of the Appletons
- Homes of the Wades
- Homes of the descendants of Richard and Ursula Scott Kimball of Rattlesden, who settled in Ipswich
- Melanson’s fire, August 7, 2009
- Homes of the Lords
- “Kiss of Death” at New England textile mills
- Thoughts on an August Day
- Homes of the Manning family of Ipswich
- Luke and Elizabeth Perkins, notorious disturbers of the peace and a “wicked-tongued Woman”
- Arrival of the English
- Lakemans Lane and Fellows Road
- The Hello Girls
- Illegal Currency: Ipswich and the Land Bank scheme of 1740-41
- Let’s Go Walking……. After Midnight……
- The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692
- A Sunday at Old Ipswich
- John Fiske, 1939-2021
- Thomas and Elizabeth Lull, the Caldwell sons and their descendants
- Deluge! An Eyewitness Account of the Mother’s Day Storm of 2006
- Carted back to Ipswich, 1714
- The Old Town Landings and Wharfs
- The Greek Hotel
- The Grand Old Fourth
- Life in the Time of Greenheads
- A Revolutionary Guest: John Adams’ letters from Ipswich
- Joseph English: Loyalty and Survival in the Life of a Colonial Native Scout
- Mary Perkins Bradbury, charged as a witch
- The witchcraft accusations against Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge
- The 1934 parade celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the founding of Ipswich
- The Burke Heel Factory and Canney Lumber Fire, June 19, 1933
- The hanging of Ezra Ross and Bathsheba Spooner, July 2, 1778
- Seating in the Meeting House
- In English ways
- The Witchcraft Trial of Elizabeth Morse of Newbury, 1680
- Rum runners
- Nancy’s Corner
- First Church burns, June 13, 1965
- 19th Century: Religion divided the town
- “Dying Confession of Pomp, a Negro Man Who Was Executed at Ipswich on the 6th August, 1795”
- The Legend of Pudding Street
- The old elm tree
- Samuel Symonds’ house
- Mason’s Claim
- Ipswich at war
- The Ipswich jails
- The trolley comes to Ipswich, June 26, 1896
- Little Neck Nostalgia
- Mothers Day Flood, May 14-16, 2006
- Sullivan’s Corner, the last years of the farm
- The Proximity Fuze: How Ipswich women helped win WW II
- The “Little Old Lady from Ipswich” who was seen around the world
- Strawberry Hill and Greenwood Farm
- Taking to the air in Ipswich, 1910
- Rachel Clinton arrested for witchcraft, May 28, 1692
- Roads to Paradise
- The Topsfield Linear Common and the Grand Wenham Canal
- William Clancy, WWI hero
- Warned Out
- Killing wolves
- Hammatt Street, Brown Square and Farley Brook
- The Great Dying 1616-1619, “By God’s visitation, a wonderful plague”
- Legendary ships of Salem
- Choate-Caldwell House, 16 Elm St. (Now at Smithsonian)
- Who Were the Agawam Indians, Really?
- “We walked in the clouds and could not see our way”
- The “Dungeons of Ipswich” during the War of 1812
- The Ipswich clam
- The Legend of Goody Cole
- Samuel Goodhue’s pier
- The “Detested Tea” and the Ipswich Resolves
- Dustbane–sawdust in a can!
- “Ipswich Town” by James Appleton Morgan
- April 1, 1970: The Massachusetts Legislature challenges the Vietnam War
- Newburyport and its Neighborhood in 1874, by Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Depot Square
- The “Birthplace of American Independence”
- The Ipswich Company, Massachusetts State Guard, 1942
- Captain Arthur H. Hardy, 1972
- A tragic story from old Gloucester
- John Winthrop’s journal of the ship Arbella’s voyage to America, March 29 – July 8, 1630
- Clam Battle!
- Ipswich, Slavery and the Civil War
- Eunice Stanwood Caldwell Cowles
- Haselelponah Wood
- Lord Timothy Dexter
- The Amazing Story of Hannah Duston, March 14, 1697
- Troubles with Sheep
- Police open fire at the Ipswich Mills Strike, June 10, 1913
- Four-year-old Dorothy Good is jailed for witchcraft, March 24, 1692
- Daniel Denison
- The North Shore and the Golden Age of Cycling
- 1793 and 1818: the “Burden of the Poor” divides Ipswich into 3 towns, Ipswich, Hamilton and Essex
- 1639: “The pigs have liberty”
- The Clammer
- The Spectre Leaguers, July 1692
- Wrecks of the coal schooners
- A short history of Ipswich dog laws
- The Ipswich River
- The Ipswich Convention and the Essex Result
- One Third for the Widow
- A Wager on the Rooster
- Lydia Wardwell on her presentment for coming naked into Newbury meeting house
- The Christian Wainwright house, demolished
- The Bull Brook Paleo-Indian Discovery
- Ipswich town meeting
- Little Neck
- Emma Jane Mitchell Safford
- The Ipswich lighthouse
- Parades
- The missing dunes at Castle Neck
- Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the colony’s first published poet
- History of Great Neck
- The Great Ipswich Fright, April 21, 1775
- Bombshell from Louisbourg
- Moll Pitcher, the fortune teller of Lynn and Marblehead
- Ipswich, the Brookfield Massacre and King Philip’s War
- The ghost of Harry Maine
- Candlewood Road
- Soffron Brothers Ipswich Clams
- Supercontinents, ice ages, and the hills of Ipswich
- The reluctant pirate from Ipswich, Captain John Fillmore
- A photographic history of the Ipswich Mills Dam
- John Dunton’s visit to Ipswich and Rowley in 1686
- Ralph W. Burnham, Antiques and Hooked Rugs
- The Strand Opera House and Theater
- John Updike, the Ipswich years
- “Preserve and protect”
- John Winthrop Jr., here and gone
- Glover’s Wharf and the Ipswich coal industry
- Something to Preserve
- The steamship “Carlotta”
- Wreck of the Ada K. Damon
- Drunkards, liars, a hog, a dog, a witch, “disorderly persons” and the innkeeper
- The Tragedy of the Wilderness: The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 4
- The first jailbreak in the Colony, March 30, 1662
- Sarah Goodhue’s advance directive, July 14, 1681
- “Brought to Civility” — The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 2
- Gathering salt marsh hay
- The shipwrecks at Ipswich Bar
- Joseph Ross, 19th Century Ipswich bridge builder
- The Middle Circumferential Highway (that never happened)
- The Hayes Hotel
- 1893 Birdseye map of Ipswich
- The Blizzard of ’78, February 5, 1978
- Great Sorrows, the Deadly “Throat Distemper” of 1735
- Ipswich Red Raiders, “a melting pot of awesome contenders!”
- Riverbend, the Barnard estate (Marguery Restaurant), 1915
- The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner
- Photos from the Great Snow of 2015
- The Postman Only Rang Once…….
- Dogtown, its history and legends
- How Ipswich celebrated the end of the Revolutionary War
- Discovery of native American shell heap on Treadwell’s Island, 1882
- Rowdy Nights at Quartermaster Perkins’ Tavern
- Native American Influence on English Fashions
- Jake Burridge, the sailor
- The ancient names of Ipswich streets and places
- Jeffreys’ Neck Road
- PTSD in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- After electoral defeat, neither Adams President attended his successor’s inauguration
- “Wording it over the sheep” and behaving badly
- Bill George’s nostalgic look at old Ipswich
- The wearing of long hair and wigs
- “At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?”
- Shay’s Rebellion
- The mill girl’s letter: “I can make you blush.”
- The Bones of Masconomet
- Resources for local Native American history and dialects
- Names of the Ipswich slaves
- Wreck of the Hesperus, Dec.15, 1839
- Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America, May 14, 1878
- Santa hits the Ipswich lightkeeper’s house, December 24, 1937
- 1894: the Year that Ipswich Burned
- The Body of Liberties, the “Ipswich Connection,” and the Origin of written Constitutionalism in Massachusetts
- Prominent Members of the early Ipswich bar
- A stroll down Water Street
- John Adams’ long walk through the Neck
- Newburyport interactive map keeps history alive
- High-posted Capes
- The plantations at New Meadows, now Topsfield
- Jack Helfant, the hermit of Sandy Point from 1962-67
- Ipswich Bluffs
- A town of immigrants
- The deadly 1896 and 1911 New England heat waves
- The courtship and marriage of William Durkee and Martha Cross
- The Shatswell Fife and Drum Corps
- The not-so-humble beginnings of Olde Ipswich Days | Ipswich Local News
- Ancient Prejudice against “the Indians” Persists in Essex County Today
- Pink Flamingos, “more musings from a musty mind”
- Behold, a Pale Corpse
- Massachusetts Provincial Law: “An Act to Prevent the Destruction of Alewives on the Ipswich River”
- Early American Gardens
- Green crabs in the salt marsh
- 1816, the year without summer
- Abbott Lowell Cummings, author of “The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay”
- Lucy Kimball
- Gettin’ away on the ‘Pike
- The farm at Wigwam Hill
- The “Hum”
- The Essex County Receptacle for Idiots and the Insane at Ipswich
- The Willowdale Mill
- The Miles River
- Notable Persons from Ipswich history
- Her name was Patience
- Photos from Clamtown
- The clock tower at Hamilton First Church
- Ipswich in the Civil War
- The Hovey clan and Knowlton’s Close, a 19th Century neighborhood
- The Tithingman at the Ipswich Meeting House
- “Mill End” Ipswich
- The Newburyport Tea Party, March 1775
- The Lord-Ellsworth farm
- Madame Shatswell’s cup of tea
- Ipswich Caring
- Wind power from the Berkshires lights Ipswich homes
- Col. Nathaniel Shatswell and the Battle of Harris Farm
- The Plum Island Salt Company
- The Cricket
- Colonial New England Funerals
- Crossing the tracks on High Street
- Ipswich Pine
- The Ross Tavern
- 1854: Anti-immigrant Know Nothing Party sweeps Massachusetts elections
- Col. Doctor Thomas Berry, “Last of the Ipswich Aristocracy”
- The Chasm
- Joseph Stockwell Manning, a Civil War hero from Ipswich
- The Choate Bridge
- Reply by the Town of Ipswich to the Boston Pamphlet, December 28, 1772
- The Agawam Diner
- Recollections of A Boy’s Life In The Village
- The Highs & Lows of the Rowley River
- Tales of Olde Ipswich by Harold Bowen
- The Sham Robbery of Elijah Goodrich on his own person, tried in Ipswich
- When Herring Were Caught by Torchlight
- This Old House visits the Ipswich 1634 Meadery
- Jane Hooper, the fortune-teller
- How the Irish made their mark in New England
- Ipswich Mills Dam feasibility study
- Ipswich Pillow lace
- 1788 Massachusetts Act banning “any African or Negro”
- Ipswich Manning house at the MFA
- Acadian exiles in Ipswich, 1755
- Choate Island and Rufus Choate
- The Alexander Knight house
- The Massachusetts Circular Letter, February 11, 1768
- The Gerrymander is born in Essex County, February 11, 1812
- The Ice House
- The Body Snatcher of Chebacco Parish
- Ipswich Genealogy Resources
- Dr. Manning’s windmill
- Crocker Snow, Aviation Pioneer
- Wreck of the Deposit, December 23, 1839
- The Loyalists
- 2017 Mary Conley Award
- “A priceless reservoir of early American history”
- The Ipswich Revolt of 1687
- “To the Inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich,” from Thomas Jefferson
- A century ago – The Spanish Flu epidemic raged in Massachusetts in 1918
- Daniel Hovey
- “In the Good Old Summer Time” – Swampscott Estates
- William Franklin of Newbury, hanged for the death of an indentured child in 1644
- Two Taverns for Two Susannas
- Voices of the Great Marsh
- What could be more funner than working in the summer
- Ipswich as described by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Disorder in the Corn Fields: The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 3
- “That we may avoid the least scrupulo of intrusion” – The Colonists and Indian Land, Part I
- Manitou in Context
- “We’re Here For a Good Time, Not For a Long Time.” Remembering the Celebrated Life of Ipswich Police Officer Ed Walsh
- The Cape Ann Vikings
- Old English barns in Ipswich.
- The Battle of Middle Ground
- Sarah Dillingham Caldwell
- Daniel Low’s Silver “Witch Spoons” among Salem’s First Souvenirs
- The hanging of John Williams and William Schooler, July 1637
- The ABCs of Town Meeting
- To secure a competence
- Boston Irish Long Remembered the 1834 Charlestown Convent Fire
- Keeping My Bearings in Changing Times
- In Congress, July 4, 1776
- Governing Ipswich
- Maple Ave.
- Patronage and Scandal at the Ipswich Customs House
- Sketches of Cape Ann
- High Spirits on Town Hill
- Born in a refuge camp
- The Civil War Monument
- The Lowell Offering
- The Constitutional Convention and establishment of the Electoral College
- The “Commonwealth”
- County Street
- 1910 Ipswich census and maps
- The 2016 Ipswich drought
- The British attack on Sandy Bay, Sept. 8, 1814
- Ghosts of Independence Day
- An Amazing Coincidence on July 4, 1826
- Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- The last cottage on Plum Island
- Remembering John Dolan
- How will sea level rise affect Ipswich?
- A Nostalgic Glance at Harvard’s Early History
- Remembering Susan Howard Boice
- The great and famous not so gentle Ipswich putdown
- A Heated Battle – Lodge vs. Curley 1936
- Mass Moments: Puritans Leave for Massachusetts
- The Merchant Princes, Cyrus Wakefield and George Peabody
- Glen Magna and the Joseph Peabody Family of Salem
- Remembering Taffy Hill
- Colonial and Colonial Revival houses
- Primary Colors
- No matter how you roll the dice, it’s still a lot of Clams!
- Something Wicked Your Way Comes
- A simple badge and gun does not a copper make
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