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[1] 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.
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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.
Jan 30, 2024 · Our History. Beverly Farm was founded in 1897 by Dr. William H.C. Smith and his wife, Elizabeth. They had been searching for a suitable track of land where they could establish a fundamentally different approach to caring for people who live with developmental disabilities. Dr. and Mrs. Smith found the perfect location in Godfrey, Illinois.
Apr 11, 2018 · The Gardens of Beverly Farms. April 11, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Drawn from research for her book The Story of Edgewater House: 1910-2016, Beverly Farms resident, historian, and author, Nancy Coffey will discuss the mid-19th century history of the farms that grew into magnificent garden estates in Beverly Farms. $10/free for members.
- 117 Cabot Street, Beverly, 01915, MA
- April 11, 2018
- April 12, 2018
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.
May 18, 2022 · 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 ...