23 Facts About Topsfield Massachusetts

Topsfield Massachusetts welcomed Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop on his arrival in Salem Harbor in 1630.

Indeed, Topsfield Massachusetts was founded in part based on "alarming" 1633 news that the Roman Catholic French had planted settlements nearby and intended to send settlers "with divers priests and Jesuits among them".

Population of Topsfield Massachusetts grew slowly in the eighteenth century, reaching only 773 by the year 1776.

Topsfield Massachusetts was much smaller and more agrarian than other Essex County towns by the time of the Revolution and perhaps for these reasons the town seemed a bit more conservative and less ardent for independence than its Essex County neighbors.

Nonetheless, as tensions between crown and colonists mounted in the years before the American Revolution, Topsfield Massachusetts joined the network of committees dedicated to preserving the rights of the people.

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Topsfield Massachusetts sent two militia companies numbering 110 "Minute Men" under the command of Capt.

In contrast to the straightness of the turnpike, Topsfield Massachusetts was one of the towns surrounded by the original "Gerrymander"—meandering electoral districts drawn by Governor Elbridge Gerry in 1812 to further the interests of his political party.

We understand a large number of persons from Georgetown, Boxford and Topsfield Massachusetts, who had never travelled with a steam horse, ventured the experiment of jumping on and trying him.

Topsfield Massachusetts sent 113 soldiers to the American Civil War and appropriated funds for recruiting and supporting them.

Dow adds, "The ladies of Topsfield Massachusetts worked heartily in the cause of the soldiers during the war, and forwarded to the army, money, clothing and hospital stores".

Several men of Topsfield Massachusetts died as prisoners in the Confederates' notorious Andersonville Prison in Georgia.

In 1860, Topsfield Massachusetts had a population of 1, 292, but in 1865 that number had fallen to 1, 212.

Up to and through the 19th century, Topsfield Massachusetts was principally an agrarian town, but one industry—the manufacture of shoes—flourished for a while in Topsfield Massachusetts, as it did at this time across New England.

Topsfield Massachusetts shoes found customers across the United States, and it was said that, at its highest point of production, Topsfield Massachusetts shipped 200, 000 pairs annually.

Topsfield Massachusetts'storians believe that Topsfield's first Italian families are descended from these masons.

Topsfield Massachusetts includes parts of the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Bradley Palmer State Park, Willowdale State Forest and the entirety of the Topsfield Massachusetts Town Forest.

Clockwise from the north, Topsfield Massachusetts is bounded by Ipswich, Hamilton, Wenham, Danvers, Middleton and Boxford.

Topsfield Massachusetts is governed by an Open Town Meeting and an elected five-member Select Board who appoint the Town Administrator Kevin Harutunian.

Topsfield Massachusetts has two public elementary schools: Steward School located on Perkins Row, serving preschool through third grade; and Proctor Elementary School located in downtown Topsfield Massachusetts, serving fourth through sixth grade.

Topsfield Massachusetts is home of the Topsfield Massachusetts Fair, which attracted almost 500, 000 visitors in 2008.

Robert Smith, the first in the family to live in Topsfield Massachusetts, came to America and purchased 208 acres of land located in both Topsfield Massachusetts and the nearby township of Boxford.

Topsfield Massachusetts residents have traditionally celebrated Memorial Day with a parade through the center of town to honor Topsfield Massachusetts's living veterans and those who have died in service of the county.

Topsfield Massachusetts residents served in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Spanish–American War and all of the wars of the twentieth century.