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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26JC_within-lie-buried_Newburyport-MA.html
(left tablet) Reverend ... John Lowell Thomas Cary John Murray Charles Milton Christopher Bridge Marsh Ministers of this City Judge Theophilus Bradbury Nicholas Pike Timothy Palmer "Lord" Timothy Dexter Five French refu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26IJ_the-1873-train-wreck_Newburyport-MA.html
A misplaced switch forced a freight train onto a dead-end side track on May 23, 1873, and the 34-ton steam locomotive smashed through barriers and fell down the embankment to Merrimac Street below. The engineer and fireman jumped clear before the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26IG_historic-1893-newburyport-train-station_Newburyport-MA.html
A domed Victorian train station was built in 1893 behind where the Winter Street condominiums stand today. At the time, there were 32 trains traveling to Boston every day. The station operated for 75 years and was destroyed by fire on May 2, 1968.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26GZ_the-memory-of-the-officers-and-men_Newburyport-MA.html
To commemorate the memory of the officers and men who left this Memorial Hall April 16, 1861 in answer to the first call of Abraham Lincoln for troops to defend the Capital issued April 15, 1861 Capt. Albert W. Bartlett Lt. George Barke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26FK_market-square-tea-burning_Newburyport-MA.html
When the British Parliament in 1773 imposed a tax on tea imported into the American Colonies the act was widely resented. In indignation tea was brought by the people to Market Square and burned. To commemorate the incident this tablet was erect…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26FF_newburyport-firehouse-center_Newburyport-MA.html
This historic building, built as a Markethouse and Lyceum by the citizens of Newburyport in 1822, served as the Central Fire Station from the mid-1800s until 1980. A cooperative effort by the public and private sectors has restored the structure …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26CZ_straitsmouth-island_Rockport-MA.html
Straitsmouth Island was first sighted in 1614 by Captain John Smith. He also spotted nearby Thacher and Milk Islands and named all three the Turks' Heads. Lighting the Way Built in 1834, the island's first lighthouse was 19 feet tall. Its c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26CY_the-bartlet-mall_Newburyport-MA.html
It was first shaped thousands of years ago by a huge chunk of ice which broke off a retreating glacier. When the ice finally melted, it left a steep-sided pit that geologists call a kettle hole. In 1645 the first settlers from England named th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26CX_first-congregational-church-of-rockport-steeple-rehabilitation_Rockport-MA.html
The Project This is the bell from the steeple of the First Congregational Church of Rockport. It is the bell that is rung hourly by the Town Clock, still owned by the Town of Rockport. It is also rung by means of a rope and bell wheel on specia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26CW_bombshell_Newburyport-MA.html
Brought from the siege of Louisburg by Nathaniel Knapp Jr. 1759 preserved by his son Isaac Knapp as a memorial to his father and also to his brother Jacob Knapp who served at Bunker Hill and was a member of the crew of the Privateer…
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