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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, Massachusetts Maps. by Robert Raymond. This is a collection of the most important maps of interest to the researcher of the RAYMOND/RAYMENT family in North Beverly in the 1600's. The maps are presented in chronological order.
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.
Beverly Hills, California, was named in 1907 after Beverly Farms in Beverly because Taft vacationed there. In 1984, the deadliest arson fire in Massachusetts history occurred at the Elliott Chambers, a rooming house located on the corner of Rantoul and Elliott Streets in downtown Beverly. 15 people died as a result of the fire.
The collection includes manuscripts, books, photographs, maps, ephemera, decorative arts, and other artifacts related to the history of Beverly and the North Shore of Massachusetts.
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.
This antique map (Index Map) and atlas (Beverly 1907) are part of the Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy™ historical map collection, the largest digital collection of rare, ancient, old, historical, cadastral and antiquarian maps of its type. We currently have over 1,662,956 images available online.
