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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. Old USGS maps of Ipswich ...
The Meetinghouse Green was laid out in 1634, not long after Ipswich was established, and was for many years the heart of its civic life. In addition to private residences, it was flanked by public facilities, including a meeting house, jail fort, and animal pound, as well as the stocks. Although it has since become predominantly residential, it ...
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 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 ...
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.
Most of the residences to the south of the mill complex post-date the establishment in 1868 of the Ipswich Mills. One notable house that stood in the area until the 1890s was the John Whipple House, now a National Historic Landmark, which was used as mill tenement housing prior to being moved to its present location on Ipswich's South Green ...
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.
Historian Abbott Lowell Cummings noted that the residence suggested use as a garrison based on evidence of past window framing locations. The current outward appearance of the house dates to c. 1829 as the roof was rebuilt c. 1770, and the windows replaced c. 19th century. [12] Waldo-Caldwell House — Ipswich c.1660