24 Facts About Haverhill Massachusetts

Haverhill Massachusetts is located 35 miles north of Boston on the New Hampshire border and about 17 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

Pentucket was renamed Haverhill Massachusetts and evolved into an important industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power.

Haverhill Massachusetts has played a role in nearly every era of American history, from the initial colonial settlement, to the French and Indian Wars, and the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

The original Haverhill Massachusetts settlement was located around the corner of Water Street and Mill Street, near the Linwood Cemetery and Burying Ground.

Haverhill Massachusetts'storians cite his reluctance to participate in the trials as one of the reasons that the witch hysteria did not take as deep a root in Haverhill as it did in the neighboring town of Andover, which had among the most victims of the trials.

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However, a number of women from Haverhill Massachusetts were accused of witchcraft, and a few were found "guilty" by the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

However, he grew disenchanted with the town's stance against his strong ales, and in 1659 left Haverhill Massachusetts to become one of the founders of the settlement at Nantucket.

Haverhill Massachusetts was for many years a frontier town, and was occasionally subjected to Indian raids, which were sometimes accompanied by French colonial troops from New France, in which dozens of civilians were murdered.

Haverhill Massachusetts residents were early advocates for the abolition of slavery, and the city still retains a number of houses which served as stops on the Underground Railroad.

In 1841, citizens from Haverhill Massachusetts petitioned Congress for dissolution of the Union, on the grounds that Northern resources were being used to maintain slavery.

Haverhill Massachusetts rebuilt the mill at Hale's Falls, now more than twice as large produced nearly three times the output.

When Haverhill Massachusetts became a city in 1870, there were calls for the town to be annexed.

Businesses in Lawrence, Portsmouth, and Andover wanted Haverhill Massachusetts to be a dry town so more business would show up and increase businesses in those towns.

The Bradford Center of town wanted to join Haverhill Massachusetts but the Ward Hill section of town did not at the time since it was a substantial distance from both Bradford and Haverhill Massachusetts.

Finally, another reason why Haverhill Massachusetts wanted to annex Bradford was to return the town to majority English instead of the plurality of Irish, French Canadians and Central Europeans it had become with the influx of mill workers.

Bradford remains the only town in the Commonwealth of Haverhill Massachusetts to be annexed to a neighboring city other than Boston.

Haverhill Massachusetts was the site of a riot in 1915 as well as the eponymous Haverhill Massachusetts fever, known as rat-bite fever, in 1926.

Haverhill Massachusetts is drained by the Little and Merrimack rivers, the latter separating the Bradford section of town from the rest of Haverhill Massachusetts.

Haverhill Massachusetts is bordered by Merrimac to the northeast, West Newbury and Groveland to the east, Boxford and a small portion of North Andover to the south, Methuen to the southwest, and Salem, Atkinson and Plaistow, New Hampshire, to the north.

From its city center, Haverhill Massachusetts is 8 miles northeast of Lawrence, 14 miles southwest of Newburyport, 27 miles southeast of Manchester, New Hampshire, and 32 miles north of Boston.

The rate of violent crime in Haverhill Massachusetts has declined in the past several years from a recent peak of 391 in 2017 to a low of 304 in 2020.

Haverhill Massachusetts is represented in the state legislature by officials elected from the following districts:.

Haverhill Massachusetts is the home of the main campus of Northern Essex Community College.

Haverhill Massachusetts completed the reconstruction of the Hunking middle school in the Bradford part of the city.