Hugh McGlew, the early Catholics in Newburyport and Captain Jacob Brown
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Elizabeth Nourse, a famous, intrepid artist with talent and determination and with Newburyport roots.
The elephants from the circus once bathed in Frog Pond. Frog Pond at the Bartlet Mall has a long and illustrious history, in 1645 the first settlers from England named it Frog Pond.
Sarah Jane Hardy Alter was a shrewd and successful business woman in the 1800s in Newburyport MA.
Playgrounds were controversial in the early 1900s. One of the biggest concerns against playgrounds appeared to be that if there were large gatherings of young people, crime would be the result.
Land that goes back to George Little (1618 – 1692) and to the Little/Newman family going back to the 1600s, that was developed in the 1960s and is now part of the Turkey Hill neighborhood in the “West End” of Newburyport.
The Caldwell Distillery was established in 1772, it remained in the family for many generation’s. The brick warehouse on Merrimac Street, built in 1876, was bought by John F. Leary in 1925, today it is Leary’s Fine Wines & Spirits.
Atkinson Common 1900 (Detail), The Snow Collection, The Museum of Old Newbury, a view of what once was Moultonville in the North End, a conception of Henry Moulton’s which gradually faded from the city’s landscape.
29 Jefferson Street – Joseph Coffin, owner of the shipyard at the end of Jefferson Street, and the 1784 will of Benjamin Coffin that tells of a ship building yard at the end of Jefferson Street in the 1700s.
