Beverly. Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, and a suburb of Boston.
The population was 39,502 at the 2010 census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, Beverly includes Ryal Side, Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing.
Beverly is a rival of Marblehead for the title of being the birthplace of the U.S. Navy.
Originally part of Salem and the Naumkeag Territory, the area was first settled by Europeans in 1626 by Roger Conant. Because of religious differences with Governor John Endecott, Beverly would be set off and officially incorporated in 1668, when it was named Beverley after Beverley, the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Surviving from the settlement's early history is the Balch House, built, according to dendrochronological testing performed in 2006, about 1679. The first ship commissioned for the US military, by the US Army, was the armed schooner Hannah. It was outfitted at Glover's Wharf and first sailed from Beverly Harbor on September 5, 1775. For this reason Beverly calls itself the Birthplace of America's Navy, a claim disputed by other towns, including nearby Marblehead. The Hannah can be found on the patch of the city's police department. Beverly has also been called the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, as the site of the first cotton mill in America, and largest cotton mill of its
The population was 39,502 at the 2010 census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, Beverly includes Ryal Side, Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing.
Beverly is a rival of Marblehead for the title of being the birthplace of the U.S. Navy.
Originally part of Salem and the Naumkeag Territory, the area was first settled by Europeans in 1626 by Roger Conant. Because of religious differences with Governor John Endecott, Beverly would be set off and officially incorporated in 1668, when it was named Beverley after Beverley, the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Surviving from the settlement's early history is the Balch House, built, according to dendrochronological testing performed in 2006, about 1679. The first ship commissioned for the US military, by the US Army, was the armed schooner Hannah. It was outfitted at Glover's Wharf and first sailed from Beverly Harbor on September 5, 1775. For this reason Beverly calls itself the Birthplace of America's Navy, a claim disputed by other towns, including nearby Marblehead. The Hannah can be found on the patch of the city's police department. Beverly has also been called the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, as the site of the first cotton mill in America, and largest cotton mill of its
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