Members of the Young Yankee Dory Sailors pose with officers of the Swampscott Yacht Club inside the club in this 1937 photograph. Appearing in the photo: Back row, L-R: 1. Ed Bergen, 2. Raymond Boynton, 3. King Dunwoody, 4. Frank R., 5. Barber Dunwoody, 6. Blaine Keho, Jr., 7. Forrest Mason. Seated, L-R: 1. Alan Howes, 2. Dick Hatfield, 3. Tom Rowen, 4. unknown, 5. Bill Gowell, 6. Alan Breed, 7. Charlie Coyle, 8. Oggie Keiser, 9. George White, 10. Rhet Moyes, 11. Kenneth Maree, 12. Bruce Durkee, 13. "Rags" Durkee.
Five men and one boy ride in the "Sons of veterans" float--a car decorated with vines--during a local parade. The men are identified as Arthur E. Widger, Frank E. Morrison, Samuel Brandt, Mr. Keating, and Chester Glass. Photo taken by Stuart P. Ellis.
The cast of the 1929 Swampscott American Legion show pose in costume for a photo. Note some cast members dressed in drag. Front Row, L-R: 1. Unknown, 2. Winnie Doty, 3 & 4 unknown, 5. Louise Linden, 6. unknown, 7. Mrs. Al Jones. Back Row, L-R: 1 & 2 unknown, 3. Stanley Flagg, 4 - 6 unknown, 7. Harold Willett, 8. Fred Linden, 9. unknown, 10. Alfred Frazier.
Close up view of the Swampscott World War I memorial, a bronze plaque affixed to a large rock at the intersection of Burrill Street and Monument Avenue. The Chick and Ericson estates can be seen in the background. The memorial has been laid with wreaths.
A man wearing a medal on his suit poses for a picture behind a statue of a soldier. Flags fly on either side and, in the background, a crowd has gathered as if for a ceremony.
Swampscott's Revolutionary War memorial, also known as the Ramsdell Memorial "... is a boulder and bronze plaque in memory of the first soldier to die at the Battle of Lexington. Abednego Ramsdell was from that part of Lynn which became Swampscott and the Memorial is near the site of his home. Built in 1929 for Commonwealth's Tercentenary.----from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996
Close up view of the Swampscott World War I memorial, a bronze plaque affixed to a large rock at the inersection of Burrill Street and Monument Avenue. The Chick and Ericson estates can be seen in the background.
Members of the Grand Army of the Republic participate in a local parade. Included in the photo are Peleg Gardner, John Merritt, and William S. Earp. Photo taken by Stuart P. Ellis.
Benjamin Martin and his son and an unidentified man pose with a lapstrake sailboat on Blaney beach.--from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996
Aerial view looking Northeast across Swampscott from the ocean. King's Beach is on the left and Blaney Beach is on the right with Humphrey Street running alongside.
View of Swampscott looking West from Rockland Avenue (?). The spire of the Congregational Church on Blaney Street appears on the left and the spire of the Methodist Church on on Redington Street appears in the center.
Monument Square was previously known as Mudge Square. The Mudge family donated the land for the erection of a Civil War monument in honor of the fourteen Swampscott men who died in the war. The monument is constructed of granite with bronze tables and trimmings. It is thirty feet high and six feet ten inches at the base. The monument was dedicated in 1883.--from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996
Monument Square was previously known as Mudge Square. The Mudge family donated the land for the erection of a Civil War monument in honor of the fourteen Swampscott men who died in the war. The monument is constructed of granite with bronze tables and trimmings. It is thirty feet high and six feet ten inches at the base. The monument was dedicated in 1883.--from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996
View of a flooded portion of Burrill Street at the railroad tressel, on which a train is passing by. Spectators stand on the raised sidewalk watching as one man stands on the sideboard of his automobile. Behind him, another man stands in thigh-deep water next to his partially-submerged automobile.
View down a long, straight road (Essex Street?). A man stands in the road and a woman stands to the side of the road in the distance. Railroad tracks run along the right side of the road.
Close-up view of the Danvers Road bridge and the railroad tracks that it crosses over. The base of the bridge is stone and the barrier alongside the road is made of wood.
View along a paved Paradise Road in 1941. This location is approximately 331 Paradise Road, home of the Whole Foods Market (2008) and former site of the Foodmaster grocery store.
Partners Henry Leger and Ed Wiley split mackerel. Although one of the men had to walk with a cane, the two could still do a day's work. Transport is close at hand to take the cut fish up the beach to be salted."--from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996
Portrait of John M. Grosvenor, Jr. John Milton Grosvernor, Jr. was born in Woburn in 1864. He attended M.I.T. and became a chemist. Married Lilian Pitman Munson of Swampscott in 1894. Grosvenor was a junior member of the firm J.M. Grosvenor & Co., importers and manufacturing chemists, which was founded in 1868. He was the president and treasurer of the Annals Publishing Co., publishers of the Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry former chairman of the Republican Town Committee, park commissioner, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1904-05) and a member of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1906. Grosvenor was also an Essex County Commissioner beginning in 1907, a trustee of the Essex County Agricultural School.--from "Who's who in New England," edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, 1916.
Formal portrait of Mrs. Gaston, wife of the governor. Louisa Beecher was the daughter of Laban S. and Frances A. (Lines) Beecher. Her father was a lumber merchant in Roxbury, Mass. She married William Gaston on May 27, 1852 in Roxbury, MA. and had three children: Sarah Howard, Theodore Beecher, and William Alexander Gaston. Her husband, William Gaston, served as mayor of Roxbury (1861-1862) and of Boston (1871-1872). He was elected as governor of Massachusetts in 1875. After losing his bid for re-election, Gaston returned to his successful law practice in Roxbury. Gaston had also served as a Representative in the State Legislature (1853-1854), as Roxbury's City Solicitor (1856-60).--from the Official Massachusetts Governor biography (www.mass.gov) and Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men of the state, Samuel Atkins Eliot, 1909.
Two women from Galloupe's Point sit in a horse-drawn carriage driven by eight-year-old Johnnie Hutt--from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996
William Murray, Frederic H. Lewis, Edward Albree, and Weston K. Lewis walk along the beach pulling two small wagons. Murray carries a hammer in one hand and a saw in the other. Edward Albree and Weston K. Lewis worked at the Lincoln House stables, while Murray was a coachman.--from Then & now : Swampscott, Sue Ellen Woodcock, c2002.
Mrs. D. Holman Willett and companions in front of 193 Humphrey Street. Four women sit in a horse drawn carriage, one stands on the porch and one stands with the horse.
Members of the Grand Army of the Repbulic (GAR) pose in uniform and with flags in front of the Swampscott train station. Pictured are: Elmer Thomas, drummer, William Gardner, Eldrige Blaney, Joe Glass, Eben Martin, Orlando Pinkham, William Earp, Ed Marsh, John I. Adams, William Fay, George Connor, unidentified, James Alger, Peleg Gardner, Charles Rodrick, George Newhall, unidentified, Orlando Millett.
"The Franklin motor car was invented by the engineer John Wilkinson and manufactured by the industrialist H. H. Franklin and marketed under his name. The Franklin was one of the most innovative motor cars of its time, featuring an air-cooled engine, scientific light weight and flexible construction at a time when other luxury car manufacturers were making ponderous machines. Throughout its history Franklin was a luxury car and it was in this part of the automotive market that it competed with the other notable makes of the day. As such it fell victim to the Great Depression along with many of these same fine luxury car manufacturers. These remarkable motor cars engendered such a loyal and faithful following that interest in these automobiles never died out. Many individuals continued to operate Franklins as their every day automobiles or preserved them right up to the emergence of the antique and classic hobby, decades after production ceased in 1934. The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company was a very large employer in Syracuse, New York area, its home base...--Onondaga Historical Association website, viewed 3/12/2008.
Graves Light is one of Massachusetts' youngest lighthouses. An iron bell buoy was placed near the ledges called the Graves in 1854. It was later replaced by a whistling buoy beyond the northeast end of the ledges. A new major shipping channel into Boston Harbor, the Broad Sound Channel, opened in the early 1900s, necessitating a lighthouse at the Graves. In 1902, Congress appropriated $75,000 for a lighthouse and fog signal, and Governor Crane of Massachusetts signed a deed conveying 435,400 square feet at the ledges to the federal government. The project ultimately cost $188,000, meaning a second appropriation of $113,000 was required in April 1904. Construction took place from 1903 to 1905, and Royal Luther of Malden, Massachusetts, was in charge. The style of Graves Light is very similar to Maine's Ram Island Ledge Light, built at about the same time. The granite for the tower was cut at Rockport on Cape Ann. Rock on the ledges was blasted, and the foundation was laid just four feet above the low tide mark. The first 42 feet were completed in the summer of 1903. While the granite was being put in place, the ironwork was being manufactured in Boston and a huge first-order Fresnel lens was being created in Paris. The summer of 1904 saw the lighthouse reach a height of 88 feet. Construction was completed during the following year. A granite oil house was built 90 feet south of the tower, reachable by a footbridge. On the night of September 1, 1905, Graves Light's first keeper, Elliot C. Hadley, lighted the most powerful light in Massachusetts history for the first time. The gigantic lens floated on 400 pounds of mercury. Storms and vandalism have done their share of damage. The old walkway has been destroyed by storms, and vandals have caused thousands of dollars in damage. The fog signal house was swept away by the "Perfect Storm" of October 1991. The badly damaged landing platform was repaired in 1993. The original oil house still stands. The submarine cable from the town of Hull that powered Grave
Graves Light is one of Massachusetts' youngest lighthouses. An iron bell buoy was placed near the ledges called the Graves in 1854. It was later replaced by a whistling buoy beyond the northeast end of the ledges. A new major shipping channel into Boston Harbor, the Broad Sound Channel, opened in the early 1900s, necessitating a lighthouse at the Graves. In 1902, Congress appropriated $75,000 for a lighthouse and fog signal, and Governor Crane of Massachusetts signed a deed conveying 435,400 square feet at the ledges to the federal government. The project ultimately cost $188,000, meaning a second appropriation of $113,000 was required in April 1904. Construction took place from 1903 to 1905, and Royal Luther of Malden, Massachusetts, was in charge. The style of Graves Light is very similar to Maine's Ram Island Ledge Light, built at about the same time. The granite for the tower was cut at Rockport on Cape Ann. Rock on the ledges was blasted, and the foundation was laid just four feet above the low tide mark. The first 42 feet were completed in the summer of 1903. While the granite was being put in place, the ironwork was being manufactured in Boston and a huge first-order Fresnel lens was being created in Paris. The summer of 1904 saw the lighthouse reach a height of 88 feet. Construction was completed during the following year. A granite oil house was built 90 feet south of the tower, reachable by a footbridge. On the night of September 1, 1905, Graves Light's first keeper, Elliot C. Hadley, lighted the most powerful light in Massachusetts history for the first time. The gigantic lens floated on 400 pounds of mercury. Storms and vandalism have done their share of damage. The old walkway has been destroyed by storms, and vandals have caused thousands of dollars in damage. The fog signal house was swept away by the "Perfect Storm" of October 1991. The badly damaged landing platform was repaired in 1993. The original oil house still stands. The submarine cable from the town of Hull that powered Grave
A crowd observes Armistice Day (Veterans' Day) in Swampscott on November 11, 1931, commemorating the anniversary of the end of World War I in 1918. The town's memorial to World War I veterans is located at Monument Square. Monument Square is the park-like gateway to Swampscott and the entrance to the Olmsted Subdivision. Its center is the intersection of Humphrey Street, Monument Avenue, and Burrill Street and is marked by a tall obelisk on a green triangular traffic island. The 30-foot granite obelisk is the Civil War Monument dedicated in 1883 to honor the 14 from Swampscott who died in the Civil War.-- from Swampscott Reconnaissance Report, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Essex National Heritage Commission, 2005.
Howland Park is the site of Swampscott's World War II memorial. The memorial is named in honor of Raymond L. Howland (1895-1918), who died during WW I.
Image showing the schooner Carrie E. Phillips under construction at the Arthur Story's Shipyard in Essex, MA. Piles of lumber lie in front of the ship and several men are visible on or near the vessel.
Photograph shows a horse drawn omnibus and the town water pump. Several men are in the photo, which also shows the rear of some fish houses and a rowboat at the right.
Photograph of fish houses located on Humphrey Street in Swampscott in 1897. Photo is taken at close range and written across the bottom is "Blaney's Beach Swampscott, Mass."
