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Ipswich was from its earliest days an important transit stop, and High Street was the location of its inns for travelers. It was also where courts met when judges rode the circuit. In the 18th century small industrial shops also populated the street, and some of these led to the building of larger textile firms elsewhere.
1795 Map of Ipswich, Massachusetts Click on the screen size maps to get a much larger image. 1832 Map of Ipswich, Massachusetts by Philander Anderson. 1872 Map of Ipswich plate 66–67 in the 1872 Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts. 1872 Map of Ipswich Center plate 69 in the 1872 Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts.
The Shoreborne Wilson House is a historic colonial house at 4 South Main Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house was built between 1685 and 1692 by Shoreborne Wilson, a cooper. It has a basic four-room center chimney plan, of which Wilson built the northwest section.
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1] Essex County, of which Ipswich is a part, is the location of 461 properties and districts listed on the National Register. Ipswich itself is the location of 31 of these properties and ...
The district boundaries extend from the junction of South Main and Elm Streets, southward past the green to where County Road (Massachusetts Route 1A) crosses Saltonstall's Creek. [2] Ipswich voted to establish the South Green in 1686, after which it was used as a common grazing area, and as a training ground for the local militia.
The John Whipple House is a historic colonial house at 1 South Green in Ipswich, Massachusetts.Built in the seventeenth century, the house has been open to the public as a museum since 1899 and was the subject of some of the earliest attempts at the preservation of colonial houses.
The Benjamin Grant House is a historic house at 47 County Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts.It is a well-preserved early Georgian house, built c. 1735 by Benjamin Grant. He was killed in the French and Indian War, and the house subsequently came into the hands of the Ross family, who owned it well into the 20th cent
The eastern boundary includes the Ipswich River and Turkey Shore Road from its junction with Labor-in-Vain Road to Green Street, and the southern boundary runs along Green Street to North Main. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.