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Record 78/5355
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HARBOR ARTICLES 1 PICTURE OF THE 'DELTA'...ferry boat..."CAPTAIN TUCKER'S LANDING''...a casein by Hamlin Turner... 3 FIRM'S HISTORY BRIEF...history of MARBLEHEAD TRANSPORTATIN COMPANY...ferry service established in 1901...last excursion was in 1972...info collected by Helen Doane an avid genealogist and a former clerk of the company... 5 PICTURE'S OF 'BLONDE', ferry boat, AND TUCKER'S WHARF... 7 PICTURE OF 'THE PHILIP S. TUCKER', one of the first gasoline type ferries, AND 'THE QUEEN'... a coal burner used for trips to Salem Willows... 9-15 RICHARD E.CASWELL, MARINER, RECALLS DAYS OF ROW-BOAT FERRY...Messenger October 5, 1928...PICTURES OF TUCKERS WHARF AND GRAND BANK DORIES, THE HARBOR AND THE ORIGINAL 'QUEEN'... 17 MEMORY LANE...by Harry Wilkinson...an article on memories of former ferry boats, 'QUEEN, DELTA, BLONDE AND BRUNETTE'... 19 PICTURE OF, THE GENERAL SHERIDAN...one of three sloops used as a ferry after the dories...picture of 'THE BRUNNETTE'...the first coal burning ferry... 23-23 STORM OF 1851...by James J.H. Gregory...Messenger Dec. 31, 1909...GREATEST STORM SINCE 1898...Messenger Dec. 31, 1909...ANNIVERSARY OF THE GALE OF 1869...Messenger, Sept. 13, 1918... 24 PAGE 2 OF A MISSPLACED STORY...Messenger June 27, 1874... 25 HEADA FOREVER...by Deborah Caulkins...SIGNS OF SPRING... 27 MEMORIES OF LINCOLN HAWKES...refers to ice on harbor... 29 NORTH SHORE IS HIGH RISC EARTHQUAKE AREA...by Irv Dierdorff 31 MEMORY LANE...by Harry Wilkinson...FORTY YEARS BACK...SEPT 21, 1938...THE SURPRISE "NO NAME" HURRICANE...Yacht "TOFA" ...on the rocks at the Fort... 33 SEAGULLS ON ROCKS AT FORT BEACH... 34 TURBULANT SEAS POUND MARBLEHEAD WATERFRONT... 35 MOONGLOW..PICTURE OF HARBOR AT NIGHT... an article by alec MacDonald referring to old days back to 1700's on Marblehead neck... refers to an article from "MANATAUG PEBBLES, published on July 26, 1880...refers to possibility of Capt. John Smith 's landing on Marblehead before the Pilgrim's landing at Provincetown and Plymouth... 37 AT POINT NECK...a poem and picture of the harbor at sunset... 39 WHEN BOSTON HARBOR FROZE OVER...by Edward Rowe Snow... 41 SURPRISE SPRING STORM CLOSES CAUSEWAY...NOVEMBER 26-27, 1898 MARBLEHEAD SUFFERED WORST STORM SINCE 1851... 43-45 PICTURES OF POUNDING SEA... 46 SNOW! SNOW! SNOW! 47 OLD WEATHER RECORDS...Messenger July 21, 1911...LATE SNOW...a poem WINTER OF 1882...thermometer registered 17 degrees below zero on Pond Street...Messenger January 27, 1882... 49 PANORAMA OF STORM'S FURY ON FRONT STREET... 51 BACK IN 1786 WHWN NEW ENGLAND HAD THOSE GOOD, OLD FASHIONED WINTERS... 53 DEVERUEX BEACH GET'S FACELIFTING JOB AFTER A STORM... SECTIONS OF BEACH FLOODED... 55 STORM DAMAGE ON FRONT STREET 57 GILBERT HEIGHTS AS VIEWED FROM MARBLEHEAD HARBOR... 59 DEVEREUX BEACH HIGH TIDES WITH STORM...SEA BATTERS HEAD CAUSWAY... 61 THE SEA CAN BE ROUGH...CAUSEWAY AFTER GREAT NOVEMBER STORM OF 1898... 63 BENCHES AT DEVEREUX BEACH TOSSED ABOUT...BEACH NEAR DEVEREUX GRAVEYARD OF WRECKED CRAFT... 65 A CHALLENGE AHEAD...THE NECK AND THE USHER PROPERTY... 67 MEMORY LANE...by Harry Wilkinson...A BATTERED CAUSEWAY AFTER THE NOVEMBER 1898 STORM... 69 'FISHING AMERICA PASSING THROUGH THE FISHING FLEET ON THE GRAND BANK'..by Michele Felice Carne...'ON THE GRAND BANKS..FITZHUGH LANE 1800'S... 71 REDEDICATED TEDESCO MEMORIAL...BARK FLOUNDERED OFF SWAMPSCOTT AND ALL HANDS LOST...110 YEARS AGO... 73 THE WRECK OF THE BORQUE TEDESCO... 74 TEDESCO ANCHOR DEDICATION SET... 75 AS A BOY REMEMBERS...THEN YOUNG BOY NOW OLD BOY...Messenger September 12, 1919... 77 1968 COLD RECALLS ICY DAYS...by Harry Wilkinson... 79 HEADERS HOPE WEATHER OF 1898 WILL NOT COME AGAIN... 81 MEMORY LANE...by Harry Wilkinson...THE FREIGHTER NORSEMAN WHICH RAN AGROUNF OFF MARBLEHEAD NECK... 83 MARBLEHEAD'S MOST FAMOUS SHIPWRECK... 85 HEADA FOREVER...by Deborah Caulkins...The wreck of the Norsemen... 87 NEW SWAMPSCOTT PLAQUE FOR BARQUE 'TEDESCO'... 89 CAUSEWAY AFTER NOVEMBER 1898 STORM... 90 TOWERING WAVES CRASH ON DEVEREUX BEACH...FEB.9, 1978... 91 YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER...1816... 92 1816 WINTER-IN-SUMMER BROUGHT SNOW TO SALEM....1816 THE YEAR SUMMER NEVER CAME... 93 NEWSPAPER ITEMS REFERRING TO ESSEX COUNTY...MARBLEHEAD ANND NEWBURRYPORT STORMS WASHING AWAY GREAT QUANTITIES OF SALT, AND SUGAR , SUGAR,ETC AND DAMAMGING THE WHARVES AND VESSELS...Boston Evening Post April 1, 1765.... (ESSEX Institute collection Vol.L....July 1914... 95 A SCRAP FROM THE PAST... 97-98 WINTER OF 1920... 99 TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO...1867-68...Messenger Nov. 23, 1894...DATES FROM MR. CLOUGH...MARCH 3RD, 1837...Nov. 25, 1885...Messenger November 27, 1885... 101 COLD WEATHER OF 1857...Messenger January 27,1882... 103 MARCH 1823...Messenger March 18, 1881...MARCH 1835...Messenger 1835...Two articles referring to extreme cold weather... 105 FIRST C.Y.B. (Corinthian yacht club) BUILDING- RAZED IN 1897... THERE IS A LOOSE SEPARATE FOLDER MARKED (SCHOOLS)...FROM HELEN DOANE... PAGES 1-45... 1-39 INFORMATION ON ALL MARBLEHEAD SCHOOLS DATED FROM 1802-1890... 41 NOTES FROMABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY ...OLD TOWN RECORDS...Sept.2, 1965... 45 ROM ABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY...OLD TOWN RECORDS RECEIVED IN 1700'S...
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