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- Originally inhabited by Agawam or Naumkeag peoples, West Newbury was settled by English colonists in 1635 as part of neighboring Newbury. After 15 years of English colonization, a 30 acre section of land around Indian Hill in current day West Newbury was purchased from an indigenous man Great Tom for three pounds. [ 2 ]
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In 1969 local writer Margaret Coit called West Newbury a "hill-framed town that Lowell Thomas once described as 'the Garden of Eden of America,'" saying that as active farming faded away, West Newbury had become, "in its population and pattern of thinking ... virtually a suburb."
The town of West Newbury provides the following history: West Newbury’s history as a town began in 1635 when 23 men and their families, all from England, sailed through Plum Island Sound and up the Parker River, landing in Newbury.
The history of West Newbury begins with its Indigenous past. The land on which the town resides is the traditional homeland of Indigenous cultures for thousands of years before the Algonquians of the Wabanaki culture, who lived here in the 500 to 800 years or more prior to European contact.
Oct 1, 2018 · Newburyport was first settled in 1635 and did not become a town until 1764. In 1851, Newburyport became a city.
Posted on: October 1, 2024 - 11:25am. Julia Noyes Stickney, West Newbury’s most famous poet, was born here in 1830 and died at her home on Main Street in 1910. She was the daughter of comb manufacturer Somerby C. Noyes and his wife Mary Brown Noyes, both descendants of combmaking pioneer Enoch Noyes. By the 1880s her poems were appearing in ...
Click here to learn from local historian Bethany Groff Dorau about West Newbury's earliest days as the remote western part of Newbury--and how mandatory treks to Sunday church services helped determine the Town's history.
Oct 7, 2023 · West Newbury was first settled in 1635 as part of neighboring Newbury. On February 18, 1819, the General Court of Massachusetts passed an act "to incorporate the town of Parsons." The initial proposals had been made in the late 18th century, but determined resistance from the town of Newbury, which had already lost Newburyport, blocked the ...
