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Founded in 1626, the
City of Beverly Massachusetts is one of the oldest communities in the state.
Residents describe their city as the birthplace of the United States Navy,
noting that the first ship commissioned by the Navy first sailed from Beverly
Harbor.
Although the city was the location
of the first cotton mill and the first Sunday school in the country, and
has one of its neighborhoods, the Fish Flake District, on the National
Register of Historic sites, it is the present and future rather than the
past which engross the energies of the community. Beverly residents have
watched an interesting shift over the past 50 years, as the city changed
from an industrial site with huge manufacturers like the United Shoe Machine
Corporation, to a bedroom community that is 85% residential and emphasizes
its academic and cultural facilities more than the industrial parks that
house mixed computer and other high technology firms.
The city is the home of private Endicott
College and a campus of the public North Shore Community College as well
as the site of the North Shore Music Theatre which brings in hordes of
visitors to glittering Broadway-type productions. Intact in Beverly is
the spacious echo of the past since the city is still the home of some
of the most historic families in America on gracious estates in the northern
portion of the community. Residents note the first-rate hospital, the miles
of beautiful beach, and the diverse sections of the community that offer
everything from rural to urban lifestyles in saying that the city offers
everything that anyone could want in a home town. (Narrative supplied
Beverly Massachusetts is located
in Northeastern Massachusetts, bordered by Danvers on the west, Wenham
on the north and east, Wenham and Manchester on the east, and Beverly Harbor
and the Danvers River on the south. Beverly is 7 miles north of Lynn; 18
miles north of Boston. |