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Beverly Farms was known for its long green fields and deep woods. Because of it’s fertile soil there were a lot of farms in the Farms. The most common crops were hay, Indian corn, rye, oats, barley and potatoes. Beverly Farms was used for farming for over 200 years.
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 Beverly Room Collection at the main library contains resources for researching local history and genealogy. The collection includes scrapbooks, pamphlets, and ephemera on subjects such as Beverly organizations, local government, churches, schools, companies, and citizens.
Raymond farm, which was located in Beverly Massachusetts, was behind present day Henry's Market in North Beverly. The farm was established in 1654 after the King of England gave the Raymond's a land grant of two hundred acres to start a farm.
HistoricBeverly.net 117 Cabot Street Beverly, MA 01915 P: 978- 922-1186 • Maps and Atlases - Beverly 1852, 1880, 1897, 1907, 1919 and other miscellaneous maps • Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1871-1962 • Massachusetts Historical Collections, 1792-1849 • Massachusetts Historical Collection,
Old Planters of Beverly, Map. The sections highlighted in orange show the approximate 200 acres of land that once belonged to John Balch. The blue highlights depict the location of the Bass River in relation to the Balch homestead.
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.
