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About the Town. Swampscott is a beautiful and tranquil seaside community of just over 15,000 residents located 15 miles northeast of Boston along the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Swampscott offers a friendly, welcoming and nurturing family environment, an excellent pre-school to grade 12 public educational system...
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About the Town. Swampscott is a beautiful and tranquil seaside community of just over 15,000 residents located 15 miles northeast of Boston along the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Swampscott offers a friendly, welcoming and nurturing family environment, an excellent pre-school to grade 12 public educational system...
DepartmentAddressPhone22 Monument Avenue Swampscott, MA 01907(781) 596-8877531 Humphrey Street Swampscott, MA 01907Police Department: (781) 595-111122 Monument Avenue Swampscott, MA 01907(781) 596-885022 Monument Avenue Swampscott, MA 01907(781) 596-8857Swampscott (/ ˈ s w ɒ m p s k ə t /) [1] is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 15 miles (24 km) up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States Census. [2]
- Olmsted Subdivision Historic District. With Monument Avenue at the base, this swirl of curving residential streets was planned by the famed landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) in the late 19th century.
- Elihu Thomson House (Swampscott Town Hall) Swampscott’s Town Hall is no ordinary municipal building. This Colonial Revival mansion was built in 1889 for the inventor, Elihu Thomson (1853-1937), credited with several innovations in the field of electrical engineering.
- Fisherman’s Beach. Possibly the prettiest sight in Swampscott is this crescent-shaped beach, backed by a jumble of houses on a wooded slope. Anchored in the bay are scores of little boats, many still used for commercial fishing, and there’s a wooden pier shooting out into the bay from the Fish House, with a picturesque view from the tip.
- Swampscott Fish House. In the late 19th century, when Swampscott was coming through as a resort town, the beachfront was lined with hundreds of fisherman’s shanties.
Town of Swampscott, Swampscott, Massachusetts. 3,806 likes · 20 talking about this · 2,109 were here. Swampscott offers a friendly and welcoming family environment and excellent K-12 public school system
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Aug 20, 2013 · Swampscott is swimming in historical narratives, lifestyle lure, and oceanfront artisanship. Just as adventurous road trips are full of the unexpected, so, too, is the historic seaside town of Swampscott—”land of the red rock.”
Swampscott is a beautiful and tranquil seaside community located 15 miles northeast of Boston along the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. The area in and around Swampscott was inhabited by indigenous people such as members of the Naumkeag, Pennacook, Pawtucket, and Massachusett tribes prior to European colonization.
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