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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 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 bird’s-eye view print of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts was drawn and published by Oscar W. Walker in 1886. Beverly Farms prospered as a farming community near Manchester Bay. Crops abundantly grown in the area included hay, rye, oats, barley, corn and potatoes.
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 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.
Beverly, Mass. Album of approximately 19 mounted 3 x 5" photos, postcards and newsclippings (illustrated) of buildings and streets. Undated, though probably 1910-1925. Details
Beverly Town 1880. These antique maps and atlases 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. Read about the collection. Browse entire collection.
