Haverhill, MA

Haverhill is an Essex County city on the Merrimack River, near the New Hampshire border and about 35 miles north of Boston. It began as the Puritan farming settlement of Pentucket, purchased from the Pentuckets in 1642, and later became an industrial city with sawmills, gristmills, woolen mills, tanneries, shipbuilding, and especially shoes. By 1913, abou...