Amesbury, Massachusetts Amesbury .
Amesbury, Massachusetts Amesbury's town hall Amesbury's town hall Official seal of Amesbury, Massachusetts Location in Essex County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Essex County and the state of Massachusetts.
Amesbury, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Amesbury, Massachusetts - Amesbury, Massachusetts Website City of Amesbury Official Web Site Amesbury is a town/city in Essex County, Massachusetts, positioned on the left bank of the Merrimack River near its mouth, upstream from Salisbury and athwart the river from Newburyport and West Newbury.
The populace was 16,283 at the 2010 census. A former farming and foundry town, Amesbury is today largely residentiary.
It is one of the two northernmost suburbs in Massachusetts (the other being neighboring Salisbury).
On September 6, 1638, the General Court of Massachusetts created a plantation on behalf of a several petitioners from Newbury, on the left bank of the Merrimack, as far north as Hampton, to be called Merrimac.
One especially abundant site of middens at the top of a hill, from which a river cascaded, was called by the pioneer Powawus (Pow-wow), from the native congress believed to have been held there, and the river, the Powawus River. The hill is part of the left bank of the Merrimack and the river originates in New Hampshire.
In May an propel planning committee of five laid out the green, the initial streets, the burial ground, and especially the first division into lots, apportioning the size of a lot to the richness of the settler. On September 4 the General Court titled the town Colchester, but in October changed the name to Salisbury, probably at the instigation of Christopher Batt, from Salisbury, England.
On October 7, 1640, the General Court incorporated Salisbury; that is, it granted legal recognition by the colony to a township of that name, with its own government, empowered by people populating a territory of legally defined boundaries.
In these times before the separation of Newburyport and the opening of Newburyport Harbor by dredging a new channel, the export route ran down the Pow-Pow, athwart the Merrimack on a ferry where the enhance landing now is, over Ferry Road, partly abandoned as Old Ferry Road, and along what is now High Street, Newburyport, to the docks of the Parker River near Lower Green, Newbury.
In 1642 also the town ordered 30 families to take up residence west of the Pow-wow and form a "New Town." No volunteers responded. However, this date, the first legal recognition of a municipal entity on the site of Amesbury, is termed its "settlement" by many sources.
On May 10, 1643, the General Court divided Massachusetts Bay Colony into four shires: Essex, Norfolk, Middlesex and Suffolk.
Since the first establishment of four courts on March 3, 1635, the General Court had found it necessary to multiply and distribute courts, so that the magistrates would not spend time in travel that they needed for settling case loads.
Private occupation of the west bank of the Pow-wow went on as East Salisbury people sold their property and moved to New Town. However, New Town remained a paper construct without enforcement.
On January 14, 1654, articles of agreement adopted at town meeting divided Salisbury into Old Town and New Town, each to conduct its own affairs.
In New Town a new government was voted in, which claimed authority over "all matters of publicke concernment." They still paid taxes to Old Town and expected services from it.
The board of Old Town contained some members from New Town for fair representation. This agreement also was known as a "settlement", but not in the sense of occupying land, which was already occupied.
On May 26, 1658, New Town petitioned the General Court for autonomous town status.
Old Town simply could not afford to lose the taxes to a new church.
Minister Joseph Peasley of New Town and his congregation attempting to defy the General Court were summoned into District Court at Ipswich "to answer for their disobedience" and were fined there.
The burden of attending church a several miles away became so great that New Town assembled a new meeting home and requested the General Court to find a preacher.
The court yielded to the petition of 1666, granting the "liberty of a township" to New Town.
It was titled New Salisbury, but in 1667 the name was changed to Amesbury on the analogy of Amesbury, England, which was next to Salisbury, England. This basis is unrelated to any etymology of the two names.
Amesbury was officially granted incorporation under that name on April 29, 1668.
At the end of it the creation of the Royal Province of New Hampshire took away a several towns in northern Norfolk shire, brooking the power of the General Court.
The Court now dissolved Norfolk Shire, transferring Salisbury and Amesbury to Essex County.
In 1876 Merrimac was created out of West Amesbury.
In 1886 West Salisbury was took in to Amesbury, unifying the foundry areas on both banks of the Pow-wow River.
Newton, New Hampshire, was set off from Amesbury in 1741, when the border between the two colonies was adjusted.
Beginning in 1853, Amesbury became famous for building carriages, a trade which evolved into the manufacture of automobile bodies.
Amesbury also produced Hoyt's Buffalo Brand Peanut Butter Kisses.
Newspapers in the 19th century encompassed the Amesbury Daily News, Merrimac Journal, Morning Courier, Evening Courier, New England Chronicle, Transcript, and the Villager.
Newspapers in the 20th century encompassed the Amesbury Advocate, Amesbury News, Amesbury Times, and Leader. In 1876, the town of Merrimac was set off from Amesbury.
In 1997, the town changed its status to a city, and adopted the mayor and municipal council form of government, although it retained the title "Town of Amesbury", as voters "thought Amesbury was too small and quaint to be a city". Voters allowed a charter amendment in November 2011 changing the city's official name to the "City of Amesbury" and removing references to the old "Town of Amesbury" name. The city's seal still bears the name "Town of Amesbury", although the City has put forth a bill to correct the seal with the new name. The "Doughboy", a memorial sculpture by Leonard Craske, stands on the front lawn of the Amesbury Middle School.
There is here a monument erected to Josiah Bartlett, who was born in Amesbury.
Amesbury is positioned at 42 51 29 N 70 55 50 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.7 square miles (35.5 km2), of which 12.3 square miles (31.8 km2) is territory and 1.5 square miles (3.8 km2), or 10.65%, is water. Amesbury is drained by the Powwow River.
Amesbury is the second northernmost town in Massachusetts, its northernmost point coming just south of the northernmost point of the state, in Salisbury.
Amesbury lies along the northern banks of the Merrimack River and is bordered by Salisbury to the east, Newburyport to the southeast, West Newbury to the southwest, Merrimac to the west, and South Hampton, New Hampshire, to the north.
The Powwow River bisects the town, joined by the Back River near the town center.
Amesbury has a town forest, which is connected to Woodsom Farm, as well as Powwow Conservation Area, Victoria Batchelder Park and Amesbury Golf & Country Club.
Whittier Memorial Bridge, which conducts Route 95, a primary highway, between Newburyport and Amesbury Amesbury is served by two interstate highways.
Interstate 495 runs from west to east through town, ending at Interstate 95 just over the Salisbury town line.
It has two exits in town, Exit 54 at Massachusetts Route 150 (which lies entirely inside Amesbury, and leads to New Hampshire Route 150) and Exit 55 at Massachusetts Route 110, which also provides the town's only direct access to Interstate 95 at Exit 58.
I-95 crosses the southeast corner of town, entering along the John Greenleaf Whittier Memorial Bridge, a steel through-truss bridge crossing the Merrimack River.
The Whittier Memorial Bridge lies just west of the town's only other bridges athwart the Merrimack, the Derek S.
Hines Memorial Bridge, which joins Amesbury to Deer Island (which is still part of Amesbury), and the Chain Bridge, the only suspension bridge in Massachusetts, which spans from Deer Island to Newburyport.
The Chain Bridge and its counterparts over the years have been the chief entryways into town athwart the Merrimack, and until the building of the Newburyport Turnpike Bridge, it was the easternmost bridge on the Merrimack River.
MVRTA provides bus service in Amesbury.
Amesbury Public Schools Amesbury Elementary School Amesbury Middle School Amesbury's high school football rival is Newburyport; the two squads play against each other every Thanksgiving Day.
As of 2012, the Amesbury Public Library pays for access to knowledge resources produced by Brainfuse, Cengage Learning, EBSCO Industries, Learning - Express, Library Ideas, Mango Languages, News - Bank, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Pro - Quest, Tumble - Book Library, World Book of Berkshire Hathaway, and World Trade Press. New England Sports Park, formerly Amesbury Sports Park, is a recreational facility positioned in Amesbury.
Amesbury Carriage Museum, 270 Main St.
Amesbury Friends Meeting House (1850), 120 Friend St.
Amesbury Hat Museum, 978-388-0091, which displays hats of the old Merrimack Hat Factory Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main Street See also: List of twin suburbs and sister metros/cities in the United States Amesbury is twinned with: List of foundry towns in Massachusetts Amesbury MA.
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Amesbury Public Library.
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History of Amesbury Including the First Seventeen Years of Salisbury to the Separation in 1654 and Merrimac from its Incorporation in 1876.
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1794 Map of Amesbury.
1830 Map of Amesbury.
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