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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.
The street was for several centuries part of the principal thoroughfare through the town, but became sidelined by the construction of Central Street in 1871, which bypassed traffic off most of this stretch of High Street. [2] Ipswich was from its earliest days an important transit stop, and High Street was the location of its inns for travelers.
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 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. [1]
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 district runs along North Main Street, south from its junction with High Street to the southern end of the Meetinghouse Green. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] 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.
The bridge in 2012. Choate Bridge (1764) is a historic stone arch bridge carrying Route 1A/Route 133 (South Main Street) over the Ipswich River in Ipswich, Massachusetts.It is one of the oldest surviving bridges in North America, and is probably the oldest in Massachusetts.
The road continues as a divided highway through Revere. It is a limited access highway through Revere, passing Suffolk Downs and the Wonderland Greyhound Park (which is across the street from the outer terminus of the MBTA's Blue Line), before running through the isolated Point of Pines neighborhood and exiting Revere over the General Edwards ...