Newburyport, Massachusetts

Essex County

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Newburyport is a small port town in Essex County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is located about 61 km northeast of Boston at the mouth of the Merrimack River into the Atlantic.

History

The first European settlement dates from 1635, when immigrants founded the town of Newbury. The first shipyard facilities created in 1655. Whilst developed the port to a fishing and trading center, the city was dominated by agriculture, which is why the port 1764 by Newbury and separated as Newburyport formed its own municipality. As a result, Newburyport developed into a prosperous trading town. Prior to the War of Independence it came here to the first Tea Party riots against the British tea tax (see also Boston Tea Party ). In the War of 1812 against Great Britain, the port was a center of privateers, the hundreds of British ships captured, but even also suffered heavy losses. A large fire in 1811, the economic consequences of the British blockade during the war of 1812, and a nationwide financial crisis in 1816 triggered an economic crisis for the city. From the late 18th century until the late 19th century Newburyport a shipbuilding center, which among other the first clippers were built. The city is also considered the birthplace of the U.S. Coast Guard ( Coast Guard ).

1851 mean an end to a the neighborhoods of Newbury and experienced in the course of industrialization, a second golden age, which ended in the early 20th century. In the 1970s, a comprehensive modernization program led to a fundamental reorganization of the historic city center, the Newburyport has turned into a thriving tourist resort.

Attractions

• Cushing House Museum, a 19th century building with the Museum of the Historical Society of Old Newbury.
• Custom House Maritime Museum, a building from 1835 with a museum dedicated to the maritime history of Newbury port.
• Coffin House, a wooden house built about 1678 from the colonial era.
• The Little Farm, also a colonial-era manor about year 1690.
• Lowell 's Boat Shop, a 1793 established, historic boat building operation, which is operated by the Newburyport Maritime Society. Here are today in a traditional manner boats built.

Sons and daughters of the town

• John Parker Boyd, mercenaries in India and General of the War of 1812
• Tristram Dalton, U.S. Senator for Massachusetts
• Andre Dubus III has lived in Newburyport for many years. Lack of a suitable working room in his house, he wrote his bestseller House of Sand and Fog in his old Toyota station wagon on the Oak Hill cemetery in the city.
• William Lloyd Garrison, with its weekly newspaper " The Liberator " champion of the emancipation of slaves. Statue on Brown Square.
• John Phillips Marquand, journalist and writer, 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner for his novel The late Mr. Apley ( The Late George Apley ), spent most of his life in Newburyport.
• Robert Mulliken, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1966
• Fred Naumetz, American football player of the Los Angeles Rams
• Aaron Augustus Sargent, U.S. Senator for California