Moulton Castle, The Snow Collection, The Museum of Old Newbury
Moulton Castle
Henry W. Moulton built Moulton Castle in 1868, it was torn down in 1900.
Moulton Castle, The Snow Collection, The Museum of Old Newbury
Henry W. Moulton
Homecoming
Captain Henry William Moulton (1833 -1896) returned to Newburyport after the Civil War in 1865. He came into possession of Moulton Hill, overlooking the Merrimac River, which had been in different branches of the Moulton family for six generations. The top of Moulton Hill was said to have the most beautiful landscape in all of New England.
View from Moulton Castle, The Snow Collection, The Museum of Old Newbury
Moulton Castle, Penobscot Marine Museum
In 1868 he built a Gothic-style, 22-room wooden mansion, described as a “noble and picturesque home” on top of the hill, which became known as Moulton Castle.
Boston Athenaeum, Digital Collection: George H. Walker & Co.’s Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts. Boston, 1884, p. 143.
Captain Moulton had six children, his only son died when he was less than a year and there was no son to assume his name and the estate.
Moulton Castle, Newburyport, Mass.
Following Captain Moulton’s death in 1896, the property was bought by financier Charles W. Moseley who tore down Moulton Castle in December 1900. The site of the mansion is now known as Castle Hill and is part of Maudslay State Park.
You can read about Moultonville on the blog for History~Newburyport.
Boston Athenaeum, Digital Collection: George H. Walker & Co.’s Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts. Boston, 1884, p. 143.
Part of the Poem called “Moulton Castle,” by Charles Clinton Jones
“It stood on a pine fringed hill-top
O’er looking the ancient town,
And the winding course of the river;
That turreted castle brown.
For more than a generation
It guarded the country-side,
The city and bay and islands,
And the marshes low and wide.”
“History from The Moulton Family Search,” the Boston Athenaeum and “History of Maudslay State Park in Newburyport” by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks.
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