Haverhill, Massachusetts Haverhill, Massachusetts Haverhill from athwart the Merrimack River Haverhill from athwart the Merrimack River Flag of Haverhill, Massachusetts Flag Official seal of Haverhill, Massachusetts Haverhill, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Haverhill, Massachusetts - Haverhill, Massachusetts Haverhill (/ he vr l/ hay-vril) is a town/city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
The territory was officially purchased from the Pentuckets on November 15, 1642 (a year after incorporation) for three pounds, ten shillings. Pentucket was retitled Haverhill (after the Ward family's hometown in England) and would evolve into an meaningful industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power.
In the 18th and 19th century, Haverhill advanced woolen mills, tanneries, shipping and ship assembly.
By the end of 1913, one tenth of the shoes produced in the United States were made in Haverhill, and because of this the town was known for a time as the "Queen Slipper City".
See also: Timeline of Haverhill, Massachusetts Haverhill has played a part in nearly every era of American history, from the initial colonial settlement, to the French and Indian Wars, and the American Revolutionary and Civil wars. At the same court, it was John Osgood and Thomas Hale that were also appointed to lay the way from Haverhill to Andover. It is said that these early pioneer worshipped under a large oak tree, known as the "Worshipping Oak". The town was retitled for the town of Haverhill, England, in deference to the place of birth of the settlement's first pastor, Rev.
John Ward. The initial Haverhill settlement was positioned around the corner of Water Street and Mill Street, near the Linwood Cemetery and Burying Ground.
Historians cite his reluctance to participate in the trials as one of the reasons that the witch hysteria did not take as deep a root in Haverhill as it did in the neighboring town of Andover, which had among the most victims of the trials.
However, a number of women from Haverhill were accused of witchcraft, and a several were found "guilty" by the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
However, he interval disenchanted with the town's stance against his strong ales, and in 1659 left Haverhill to turn into one of the framers of the settlement at Nantucket.
Haverhill was for many years a frontier town, and was occasionally subjected to Indian raids, which were sometimes accompanied by French colonial troops from New France.
During King William's War, Hannah Dustin became famous for killing and then scalping her native captors, who were converts to Catholicism, after being captured in the Raid on Haverhill (1697).
Haverhill was for many years a frontier town, and was occasionally subjected to Indian raids, which were sometimes accompanied by French colonial troops from New France.
During King William's War, Hannah Dustin became famous for killing and then scalping her native captors, who were converts to Catholicism, after being captured in the Raid on Haverhill (1697).
Like most towns, Haverhill has been hit by a several epidemics.
Diphtheria killed 256 kids in Haverhill between November 17, 1735 and December 31, 1737. George Washington visited Haverhill on November 4, 1789.
Haverhill inhabitants were early promotes for the abolition of slavery, and the town/city still retains a number of homes which served as stops on the Underground Railroad.
In 1841, people from Haverhill petitioned Congress for dissolution of the Union, on the grounds that Northern resources were being used to maintain slavery.
John Quincy Adams presented the Haverhill Petition on January 24, 1842.
The Haverhill and Boston Stage Coach business operated from 1818 to 1837 when the barns was extended to Haverhill from Andover.
And son Ezekiel James Madison Hale (descendants of Thomas Hale) that gave Haverhill a great head of steam.
Ezekiel JM Hale became Haverhill's Tycoon.
Haverhill was incorporated as a town/city in 1870.
Bradford fits naturally into Haverhill but they were separate suburbs until January 1, 1897, when Bradford joined the City of Haverhill.
When Haverhill became a town/city in 1870, there were calls for the town to be annexed.
Finances played a part into the annexation; a lot of citizens who lived in Bradford had businesses in Haverhill and wanted lower taxes.
Traditionalists wanted Haverhill to be a dry town as Bradford was.
Businesses in Lawrence, Portsmouth, and Andover wanted Haverhill to be a dry town so more company would show up and increase businesses in those towns.
The demand for municipal services like Hospitals, Schools, and a new Factory downtown were in Haverhill while Bradford had none of the three.
The Bradford Center of town wanted to join Haverhill but the Ward Hill section of town did not at the time since it was a substantial distance from both Bradford and Haverhill.
Finally, another reason why Haverhill wanted to annex Bradford was to return the town to majority English freshwater the plurality of Irish, French-Canadians and Central Europeans (Hungarians, Slovakians, Germans, and Italians) it had turn into with the influx of foundry workers.
Haverhill gladly allowed with the first ballot in 1870 and Bradford was no more starting January 1, 1897.
Bradford remains the only town in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be took in to a neighboring town/city other than Boston.
Haverhill became the first American town/city with a socialist mayor in 1898 when it propel former shoe factory worker and cooperative grocery store clerk John C.
Haverhill was the site of the eponymous Haverhill fever, also known as rat-bite fever, in 1926.
The Great Depression exacerbated the economic slump, and as a result town/city leaders enthusiastically embraced the concept of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s, receiving considerable federal funds used to demolish much of the north side of Merrimack Street, most of the Federal homes along Water Street (dating from the city's first hundred years of development), and throughout downtown.
Many of the city's iconic buildings were lost, including the Oddfellows Hall, the Old City Hall, the Second Meetinghouse, the Pentucket Club, and the Old Library, among others.
Instead, the historic City Hall on Main Street was demolished, and town/city began using the High School of Archie's Gang as the new City Hall.
Their plan was not accepted in Haverhill, which chose to demolish much of its historic downtown, including entire swaths of Merrimack Street, River Street, and Main Street.
However, examples of the city's architecture, spanning nearly four centuries, abound: from early colonial homes (the White residence, the Duston Garrison House, the 1704 John Ward House, the 1691 Kimball Tavern, and the historic precinct of Rocks Village) to the modernist 1960s architecture of the downtown Haverhill Bank.
The city's Highlands district, adjoining to downtown, is a fine example of the range of Victorian mansions assembled amid Haverhill's boom years as a shoe manufacturing city.
Haverhill, Massachusetts downtown (River Street) pictured at dusk from the Comeau Bridge over the Merrimack River In the 21st century, downtown Haverhill has undergone a renaissance of sorts.
The town/city was able to obtain Federal, State and small-town money to put in a new boardwalk and boat docks downtown. Recently, the town/city instead of a rezoning of downtown proposed by Mayor Fiorentini designed to encourage artist loft live work space and educational uses for the downtown area.
Even with the city's accomplishments, old buildings remain vacant or underutilized, such as the former Woolworth department store boarded up for 40+ years at the intersection of Main Street and Merrimack Street.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 35.6 square miles (92.3 km2), of which 33.0 square miles (85.4 km2) is territory and 2.7 square miles (6.9 km2), or 7.47%, is water. The town/city ranks 60th in the Commonwealth in terms of territory area, and is the biggest city or town in Essex County.
Haverhill is drained by the Little and Merrimack rivers, the latter separating the Bradford section of town from the rest of Haverhill.
Haverhill is bordered by Merrimac to the northeast, West Newbury and Groveland to the east, Boxford and a small portion of North Andover to the south, Methuen to the southwest, and Salem, Atkinson and Plaistow, New Hampshire, to the north.
From its town/city center, Haverhill is 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Lawrence, 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Manchester, New Hampshire, and 32 miles (51 km) north of Boston.
Downtown Haverhill with 22 restaurants, docks, and two small boardwalks overlooking the Merrimack River Haverhill is the home of the chief campus of Northern Essex Community College.
Until its method in 2000, Bradford College provided liberal arts college studies in Haverhill.
Recently, The University of Massachusetts at Lowell (U-Mass Lowell) has announced its intention to locate a satellite ground in Haverhill and has begun teaching a several courses at Northern Essex Community College.
Haverhill is presently in the process of assembly on replacing the deteriorating Hunking School in the Bradford section of the city.
Haverhill lies along Interstate 495, which has five exits throughout the city.
Routes 108 and 125 both have their northern termini at the New Hampshire state border, where both continue as New Hampshire state routes.
Haverhill is the site of six road crossings and a rail crossing of the Merrimack; two by I-495 (the first dominant into Methuen), the Comeau Bridge (Railroad Avenue, which leads to the Bradford MBTA station), the Haverhill/Reading Line Railroad Bridge, the Basiliere Bridge (Rte.
MBTA Commuter Rail provides service from Boston's North Station with the Haverhill and Bradford stations on its Haverhill/Reading Line.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 1922), inventor, spent considerable time in Haverhill initially as a tutor to the deaf son of a prominent shoe magnate who later invested in Bell's telephone concept Euterpe Boukis Dukakis (1904 2003), first Greek woman to attend college in the United States and mother of Michael Dukakis, longest-serving governor of Massachusetts and presidential candidate, immigrated from Greece to Haverhill in 1913 and graduated from Haverhill High School in 1921.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 1892), poet; his poem Snow-Bound is set in Haverhill "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Haverhill city, Massachusetts".
The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts by George Wingate Chase pg 46,47 George Wingate Chase, History of Haverhill, Massachusetts.
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History of Universalist Unitarian Church of Haverhill "Haverhill, Massachusetts.".
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"Haverhill Gets Final $1.7 - M for Parking Garage.".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Haverhill city, Massachusetts".
Main Street Historic District (Haverhill, Massachusetts) Haverhill Stadium - About - Google.
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