On this day in 1811, the Newburyport Herald reported that in the prior year, 21 ships, 13 brigs and one schooner were built on the Merrimack River. Newburyport merchants owned 41 ships, 49 brigs, four barks and 50 schooners during the 1810 calendar year.
— Information provided by the Historical Society of Old Newbury
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Continued ...ROWLEY - Two months after the water department's primary and secondary operators resigned due to their alleged involvement in butchering deer at Well #3 on Boxford Road, which resulted in a $25,000 fine for the town, the town is still searching for n
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NEWBURYPORT - A local book-publishing team with experience with both education and regional institutions recently completed a handsome retrospective that should have a captive audience in this area: a history of the University of Massachusetts. The b
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