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Tag: Stage Island

Ipswich Bluff

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 Gordon Harris5 Comments
Ipswich Bluffs Hotel

The hotel at Ipswich Bluff on the southern tip of Plum Island was a favorite destination of locals in the late 19th Century, who took the steamer Carlotta from the Ipswich wharf with Capt. Nat Burnham.

Posted in Places, StoriesTagged Carlotta, Ipswich Bluff, Nancy Weare, Plum Island, Stage 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

ยฉ Gordon Harris 2026

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