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The Knobbs

December 3, 2025 Gordon Harris5 Comments
Camp Sea Haven, Plum Island MA

The Knobbs is a small beach in a stretch of salt marsh on the west side of the Ipswich section of Plum Island. On the Atlantic side was the Kbobbs Beach Life-Saving Station, replaced in 1947 by a camp for children who had been victims of polio.

Posted in History, Places, StoriesTagged knobbs, Nancy Weare, Plum Island
Ipswich MA historic photos by William Varrel

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Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts by Abraham Hammatt
Ipswich Massachusetts Revisited by William Varrel

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