Ship, Marine Society, The Snow Collection, The Museum of Old Newbury
Keeping The Story Alive
Newburyport: A story of success, adversity, resilience and renewal
Ship, Marine Society, The Snow Collection, The Museum of Old Newbury
This website is an extension of the interactive history map, “Newburyport – Keeping the Story Alive,” it tells some of Newburyport’s historic stories that are on the map, also using photographs, paintings, videos, old maps, history, and anecdotes. There are an online jigsaw puzzles about the stories on most of the pages. I hope that you will enjoy these stories, some with happy endings and some not, and go on to explore the interactive history map which you will find at the end of every page. And each of these stories is a piece of the bigger story of the City of Newburyport, and when they are woven together they give a larger picture of who we are, where we have been and how we might go forward.
This is a list of all the houses, places, events and streets and ancient roads that are on the Newburyport interactive history map.
This website is an extension of the interactive history map, “Newburyport – Keeping the Story Alive,” it tells some of Newburyport’s historic stories that are on the map, also using photographs, paintings, videos, old maps, history, and anecdotes. There are an online jigsaw puzzles about the stories on most of the pages. I hope that you will enjoy these stories, some with happy endings and some not, and go on to explore the interactive history map which you will find at the end of every page. And each of these stories is a piece of the bigger story of the City of Newburyport, and when they are woven together they give a larger picture of who we are, where we have been and how we might go forward.
This is a list of all the houses, places, events and streets and ancient roads that are on the Newburyport interactive history map.
Read These Stories
The Gas Works
Gas became a popular method of outdoor and indoor lighting, it was made from coal.
Abbie Foster
Abbie Foster was given the land for a $1 and built this beautiful mansion as a widow at the age of 46.
Ocean Mills
The Industrialization and the Expansion of the North End of Newburyport in the 1800s.
John J. Currier Shipyard
At the foot of Butler Street, now Merrimac Court, from 1831 to 1884 - one of many shipyards along the Merrimac River in the North End of Newburyport.
The Jackman Shipyard
At the Foot of Forrester Street, it started around 1790 and closed in 1874 - one of many shipyards along the Merrimac River in the North End of Newburyport.
The Shipyard at the foot of Ashland Street
Many ship builders occupied the shipyard at the foot of Ashland Street, and the decline of ship building in Newburyport.
Downtown Newburyport - Market Square and State Street
Market Square and State Street to Essex and Pleasant Streets - from 1655, after the Great Fire of 1811, the twentieth century, Urban Renewal of the 1970s, and after Urban Renewal to the twenty-first century.
Laroy S. Starrett
Laroy S. Starrett was a farmer, a famous businessman, an inventor, whose first patent was in Newburyport, MA.
Moggridge and Merrill Shipyard
Between the foot of Forrester and Butler Streets, ships were built there for almost 100 years.
Margaret Atwood
54-56 Lime Street - A resilient woman of faith, strength, and generosity, as well as an astute businesswoman who ran her husband’s shipping business after his death in 1796.
Stephen Hooper
The houses by Frog Pond and the wealthy Newburyport merchants in the late 1700s.
Ethel Parton
At 69 she turned to her family’s stories and Newburyport’s history and began writing books for young adults, she lived at 270 High Street.
Local Newburyport Newspapers
There were 35 newspapers between 1773 and 1854, the Newburyport Daily News was first published in 1887.
Dodge House
Two brothers originally built the house on State Street, it was moved to Garden Street. It was the location of the YMCA and now the Newburyport Public Library expansion.
Unicorn Street
An ancient street in the heart of downtown Newburyport that was demolished during Urban Renewal.
Ethel Reed
She made her name during the poster craze of the 1890s and was one of the most talented and prolific artists of that era.
Tracy Mansion
The Newburyport Public Library, built in 1771, includes the Newburyport Public Library Archival Center, a hidden gem that houses so much of Newburyport’s history and historic treasures.
Homeopathic Hospital
The land was originally owned by Joshua Pillsbury, Captain Charles Lunt built a mansion on the Pillsbury Hill and it eventually became the Homeopathic Hospital before it was demolished for a housing development.
Neighborhood Stores
There was once a whole variety of neighborhood stores throughout Newburyport’s historic district which created a wonderful sense of community within the different neighborhoods.
A Multi-Generational Newburyport Family Saga
Jane M. Pardee - An orphan, an inheritance, a lunatic asylum, marriage, and a series of possible betrayals.
Dr. John Brickett and the Worcester Insane Asylum
Part of the Newburyport Family Saga and Jane M. Pardee’s story.
Check Out The Interactive History Map
More information about Newburyport and its history can be found on the interactive history map, “Newburyport – Keeping the Story Alive.”
Check Out The Interactive History Map
More information about Newburyport and its history can be found on the interactive history map, “Newburyport – Keeping the Story Alive.”