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Newbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,716 at the 2020 census. [1] Newbury includes the villages of Old Town (Newbury Center), Plum Island and Byfield. Each village is a precinct with its own voting district, various town offices, and business center.
In recent years, communities in Massachusetts have adopted resource protection zoning (RPZ) as a tool to protect natural resources and open space.RPZ, which was originally passed in Shutesbury, Massachusetts in spring 2008, includes elements of conservation subdivision regulations and cluster development bylaws, to regulate new subdivisions of land in a manner that maximizes the protection of ...
The racial makeup of the town was 98.5% White, 0.2% African American, 0.5% Asian, 0.4% from other races, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.7% of the population. In March 1952, Julian Steele, the sole African-American voter among some 1,500 residents at the time, was elected West Newbury's town meeting moderator.
Mar. 25—NEWBURY — The Select Board finalized the town warrant Tuesday night ahead of the Town Meeting on April 26, including a $22.4 million budget — a 4.1% increase over the current ...
The Custom House Maritime Museum The Mary L. Cushing, the last merchant ship built on the Merrimack, docked at the Cushing family pier in Newburyport. On January 28, 1764, the General Court of Massachusetts passed "An act for erecting part of the town of Newbury into a new town by the name of Newburyport."
Byfield is a village (also referred to as a "parish") in the town of Newbury, in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It borders West Newbury, Georgetown, and Rowley. It is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) north-northeast of Boston, along Interstate 95, about 10 miles (16 km) south of the border between New Hampshire and ...
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The town of Newbury was incorporated in 1635, with the original town center located around the Lower Green, about 2-1/2 miles to the south, on the banks of the Parker River. The present upper green was laid out in 1642 as a militia training ground, and became the new center of the town (which then included both Newburyport and West Newbury ...