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The red earthenware industry in North Yarmouth, Maine was established in the 1790s, and for the next century, it flourished through a group of multigenerational family potteries. Many were located at Yarmouth Corner, which included production from at least five family businesses: Brooks, Cleaves, Corliss, Foster and Thomas. Much of this history had been forgotten due to 20th century development and a lack of published documentation. But thanks...

Colossal military blunders, home invasion and kidnapping, animal cruelty, theft by trusted servants, family members quarreling over inheritances. Headlines in today's news? Perhaps, but they were also part of life in colonial Beverly.

The stoneware manufactured in Hartford, Connecticut in the nineteenth century is a well-known subject today, which served a larger area than just the local marketplace, utilizing the Connecticut River for transportation. In fact, some of the stoneware was inspired by the industry in New York City. Although, it was red earthenware that was actually the original type of household pottery produced in the area, dating as early as the 1700s, where ...

The once proud City of Beverly, Massachusetts was on the brink of receivership in 1993 when the city's voters overwhelmingly elected a new mayor, a man with absolutely no political experience, Bill Scanlon.Nearly twenty years earlier this same man had been transferred to Beverly by his employer to drastically downsize United Shoe Machinery (USM), the city's largest but failing business. The upshot was the layoff of half of the more than 1, 400...

Bill Scanlon, a man with absolutely no political experience, was elected mayor of the City of Beverly, Massachusetts in November 1993, sweeping to victory in every precinct in each ward in the city. The citizens of Beverly had had enough of the five-term mayor, Jack Monahan. Beverly, a city of over 40, 000 people, was in dire straits and appeared headed for receivership. The city had run up bills for millions of dollars with no means to pay th...

Red earthenware production in South Amesbury (Merrimacport), Massachusetts dates to the eighteenth century, supplying households in the small corner of northeastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and probably other spots in New England, with everyday utilitarian wares. This multi-generational family business lasted for more than 100 years, making it one of the longest standing potteries in New England. The most famous of those employed ...

The aesthetics of utilitarian domestic red earthenware are what collectors and museums have been drawn to for more than a century now, although, it was likely an important factor in the marketplace even when red earthenware was originally produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. In New England, the wares manufactured in southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod were unquestionably at the forefront of the visual appeal o...

An informal history of Beverly, Massachusetts, with a focus on oral histories of neighborhood residents, by long time Beverly High School teacher and track coach Fred Hammond.

The story of one of Beverly's most beautiful coastal estates, and the people who lived there over more than one hundred years.

A history of football at Beverly High School, compiled by alumni, with many illustrations and team statistics.

WHO WAS STUFFY McINNIS? A native of Gloucester, Mass. and a high school baseball standout at 15, Jack McInnis found himself at age 16 in 1907 as the star player and youngest member of a long-forgotten but once wildly popular Beverly semi-pro team that played its home games at a long-forgotten ballpark. Enthusiastic fans who shouted "That's the stuff, Kid!" whenever he made an outstanding play soon gave Stuffy his lifelong nickname. While still...

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A short history of West Beach, a small private beach in Beverly, Massachusetts

This book recounts the early stagecoach travel and the transition to rail in and around the Beverly, MA, region.

True stories about the connections between Beverly, Massachusetts and the Salem witchcraft hysteria.

A history of Joseph Henry Herrick, one of the keepers at Hospital Point in Beverly.