Rowley, Massachusetts Rowley, Massachusetts Rowley, Massachusetts jubilated its 375th anniversary in 2014 Official seal of Rowley, Massachusetts Location in Essex County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Essex County and the state of Massachusetts.
Website Town of Rowley, Mass, Official Web Site Rowley is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Rowley.
The town was titled after Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, where Rogers had served as pastor for twenty years before his suspension due to non-conformist Puritan beliefs.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 20.3 square miles (52.7 km2), of which 18.2 square miles (47.1 km2) is territory and 2.2 square miles (5.6 km2), or 10.56%, is water. Rowley lies along the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Ann, the mainland separated from the ocean by a small portion of Plum Island and Plum Island Sound.
The town has other portions which are protected, including parts of the Mill Creek Wildlife Management Area, the Georgetown-Rowley State Forest, the Willowdale State Forest, the Arthur Ewell Reservation, and the Bay Circuit Trail.
Much of the easterly mainland part of town is marshy, feeding Mud Creek, Mill River and the Rowley River, which constitutes part of the town's southern border.
Rowley is positioned 7 miles (11 km) south of Newburyport, 16 miles (26 km) north of Salem, 17 miles (27 km) east of Lawrence, and 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Boston.
Route 1, known as the Newburyport Turnpike in the area, passes near the geographic center of town, and Massachusetts Route 1 - A passes through the easterly part of town, through the town center.
All three roads are connected by Massachusetts Route 133, which passes from west to east through the town, becoming coextensive with Route 1 - A just north of the Ipswich town line and heading south with it.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 28.0% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 32.5% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $62,130, and the median income for a family was $75,527.
Rowley is the town that the protagonist flees to from fictional Innsmouth in the H.
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