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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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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.
Feb 11, 2022 · He came to Beverly Farms in about 1912 when he was 13 years old. He got a job working as a teenaged laborer at the Spaulding Gardens, today the site of The Glen Urquhart School. Though he began as a laborer. He told Nancy that when he arrived in Beverly Farms, he knew he would never go back to Italy. There was nothing for him there.
Originally part of Salem, the area was first settled in 1626 by Roger Conant and other members of the Dorchester Company who came down from Gloucester, Massachusetts after a failed attempt at establishing a fishing station. They decided to settle in what was then called Naumkeag, part of the Agawam Indian Territory.
Beverly Hills gets its name from Beverly Farms, an oceanside community within the city of Beverly, Mass. Burton Green, who owned the Rodeo Land and Water Company in the early 20th century, came up with the name as he recalled his happier years in Beverly Farms.
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.
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.
