Category: Industrial Era

Ipswich Historic Sites

Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a small historic town that is home to the highest concentration of 17th-century homes in America. The following is a list of historic sites in Ipswich, Massachusetts:… Read more »

Illustration of Blackbeard's head on the end of the bowsprit. Published in The Pirates Own Book in 1837.

Is Blackbeard’s Skull at the Peabody Essex Museum?

The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has an artifact in its collection that is rumored to be the skull of the notorious pirate Blackbeard. The museum obtained the skull… Read more »

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. Photo by Walter R Wheeler, 2017, courtesy Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin, Chairman, Massachusetts Historical Commission.

History of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts

The Peabody Essex Museum is an art museum in Salem, Massachusetts. It houses the nation’s largest collection of Asian art. The museum began as the Essex India Marine Society in… Read more »

Roger W. Babson

Roger Babson was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Born on July 6, 1875, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Babson and Ellen Stearns, Roger was the 10th… Read more »

Babson Boulder inscribed with the word "Kindness" in Dogtown in Gloucester, Mass, circa 2012. Photo by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks.

Babson Boulders in Gloucester, Massachusetts

The Babson Boulders are a 6.5-mile-long trail of over 30 granite boulders in Dogtown, which is a ghost town in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The boulders are glacial erratics, which are rocks… Read more »