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Beverly Farms was known for its long green fields and deep woods. Because of it’s fertile soil there were a lot of farms in the Farms. The most common crops were hay, Indian corn, rye, oats, barley and potatoes. Beverly Farms was used for farming for over 200 years.
May 18, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Free – $10. Local historian Nancy Coffey will present an illustrated lecture on how the Irish shaped the physical and cultural landscape of Beverly Farms between the 1860s and 1950s. Nancy Coffey started the Beverly Farms History project in 2007 and has been conducting oral history interviews, scanning ...
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History. Beverly Farms and the adjacent Prides Crossing were originally farming communities. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, wealthy residents of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City built summer cottages along the seashore.
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Feb 11, 2022 · That single move transformed Beverly Farms from a quiet, somewhat isolated, seaside community to a summer playground for wealthy Bostonians, fundamentally changing the town. Local historian Nancy Coffey has been studying this evolution of Beverly Farms for more than a decade.
History of Beverly Farms By Patrick Murray The early beginnings of Beverly Farms stem directly from the determination and leadership of the five planters, Conant, Balch, Trask, Woodberry, and Palfrey.
After the war, Beverly continued to grow, becoming an important seaport, with vessels trading all over the world. In 1839, the railroad arrived in Beverly, which brought more people and created new industries. The early settlers of Beverly were primarily farmers and fishermen.
Feb 1, 2022 · Nancy Coffey began researching the history of immigrants to Beverly Farms starting in the 1970s as a volunteer for the local historical society, and as her research grew she began giving talks on the 19th and 20th century working classes in "The Farms" at popular public library lectures.
