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Salisbury Beach State Reservation is a state-owned, public recreation area on the Atlantic Ocean in the town of Salisbury, Massachusetts, managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. [4] It is one of the most heavily utilized state parks in the Commonwealth, with "an annual attendance rate of over one million visitors ...
Salisbury is the northernmost town in Massachusetts, with its northwestern corner (where Elmwood Street meets the New Hampshire border) being at approximately 42°53'12.26". Lying along the northern banks of the Merrimack River at its mouth, the town is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Merrimack River and Newburyport to the south ...
Roxbury Heritage State Park: Suffolk: 3 acres 1.2 ha: 1992: The 1750 Dillaway-Thomas House and a small park Rumney Marsh Reservation: Essex, Suffolk: 815 acres 330 ha: 1992: Saugus River; Pines River: Rutland State Park: Worcester: 284 acres 115 ha: Whitehall Pond: Swimming, picnicking and boating. Salisbury Beach State Reservation: Essex: 355 ...
The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the large, famous and heavily visited Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The recent history of Massachusetts' islands includes creation by flooding, connection to the mainland and subsumption into ...
Sep. 23—SALISBURY — Phase 2 of the town's Partridge Brook Park project received a big head start after the town was awarded a $400,000 state grant Wednesday. Salisbury built athletic fields ...
The state park was created from the early 20th century estate of Frederick Strong Moseley, the son of Edward Strong Moseley, 1813–1900, a prominent citizen of Newburyport. Moseley is a variant of Maudesley or Maudesleigh, an English name appearing in the Domesday Book of 1080.
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The Salisbury Beach Military Reservation was built on state land in 1941. Its mission was to protect the Merrimack River and Newburyport Harbor from possible air and naval attack. The site had four "Panama mounts" (circular concrete platforms) for four towed 155 mm guns. It never fired its guns in anger, though it did play an important part in ...