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FIPS code. 25-38400. GNIS feature ID. 0618300. Website. www.marblehead.org. Marblehead is a coastal New England town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, along the North Shore. Its population was 20,441 at the 2020 census. [2] The town lies on a small peninsula that extends into the northern part of Massachusetts Bay.
August 13, 1976. Designated CP. January 10, 1984. The Old Town House is in the heart of the Marblehead Historic District at One Market Square in Marblehead, Massachusetts, at the intersection of Washington, State, and Mugford Streets. The town house was constructed in 1727 and was a replacement for the Old Meeting House on Franklin Street.
The Marblehead Historic District is a 2,300-acre (930 ha) historic district roughly bounded by Marblehead Harbor, Waldron Court, Essex, Elm, Pond, and Norman Streets in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Among its notable features are Fort Sewall, a coastal fortification with origins dating to 1644, [2] and two National Historic Landmarks, the General ...
Jeremiah Lee, oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, 1769. Wadsworth Atheneum Mrs. Jeremiah Lee, oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, c. 1769. Wadsworth Atheneum. The mansion is a large wooden house in the Georgian style, with imitation stone ashlar facade, built in 1768 by Colonel Jeremiah Lee, at that time the wealthiest merchant and ship owner in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
The Spirit of '76 by Archibald MacNeal Willard (c. 1875) Abbot Hall is a town hall and historical museum located at 188 Washington Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. [2] It is open year-round, though with restricted hours in the colder months. [3] Constructed in 1876 and designed in the Romanesque style by Lord & Fuller architects, the Hall is ...
Gregory O. Lyon bequeathed $20,000 to the Town of Marblehead for the construction of a new library. [8] The library moved to a new building at 235 Pleasant Street in 1954. Reading Room at Abbot Library on Pleasant Street. The Friends of the Abbot Public Library helped preserve the Messenger, a Marblehead newspaper, on microfilm. [9]
Essex County, Massachusetts. Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the total population was 809,829, [1] making it the third-most populous county in the state, and the seventy-eighth-most populous in the country. It is part of the Greater Boston area (the Boston – Cambridge ...
Marblehead Light is situated on Marblehead Neck in Essex County, Massachusetts. The current tower is a skeletal structure that replaced the original 1835 brick and wood tower in 1895. It is the only tower of its type in New England, the next similar tower is to be found at Coney Island, New York. It was listed in the National Register of ...