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The early settlers of Beverly were primarily farmers and fishermen. Dried, salted codfish was the basis of the trade with the southern colonies; merchants also traded timber as well as items for building houses, such as shingles, sawn boards, clapboards, and rough-hewn beams.
The early beginnings of Beverly Farms stem directly from the determination and leadership of the five planters, Conant, Balch, Trask, Woodberry, and Palfrey. They settled a territory called the Naumkeag, and the Agawam. Invited by the Indians who sought protection, the new settlers found a land of promise.
11 lut 2023 · Beverly is a historic town located in Essex County in Massachusetts. Beverly was once a part of Salem but later separated from it in the mid 17th-century when it was incorporated as its own town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The following is a timeline of the history of Beverly:…
A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, Beverly includes Ryal Side, North Beverly, Montserrat, Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing. Beverly is a rival of Marblehead for the title of being the "birthplace of the U.S. Navy ".
History. Beverly Farms and the adjacent Prides Crossing were originally farming communities. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, wealthy residents of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City built summer cottages along the seashore.
In 1669, when Blackleach’s Pond in Beverly Farms broke through to the sea, destroying a section of the Ancient Highway, a new road was routed through a section of the commons, forming what is now sections of Thissel and Hale Streets.
Beverly, Massachusetts started off as a farming town, then it evolved to become a center of maritime activity. As the years passed farming became less and less a part of life in Beverly. The land here was not rich in minerals to begin with and it was also very rocky.
