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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.
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.
Beverly Farms is the residential section of Beverly that borders the Atlantic from West Beach to Mingo Beach. The Farms begins around the intersection of Boyle Street and Hale Street and continues northeast until you hit Manchester or north into Wenham. The railroad tracks split Beverly Farms in half.
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 ".
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.
In this narrative, the settlement and development of Beverly will be traced through the years 1628 to 1920 using primary documents. What triggered the start of the migration and then later settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was the social unrest of the English Church.
With the coming of the railroad to Beverly Farms in 1847, wealthy Boston residents bought up shorefront farms for summer homes. The land rush was on. Once all the ocean lots had been sold, summer people bought parcels of land in Witches Woods, Woods Egypt and the Sheep Pasture.
