. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. withits summit 257 feet above sea-level, bearing the State Lunatic Asy-lum, — the largest building in Essex County and visible from a greatdistance. Lindalls Hill slopes down to Danvers Plain, the principalvillage; and a little westward Whipples Hill overlooks Danverscentre, anciently Salem Village. The other villages are Danversport,Tapleyville, Putnamville, Searsville and East Danvers. All exceptthe last three are post-offices. Danversport is at the head of naviga-tion on Porters Elver, at the southeastern part of the
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. withits summit 257 feet above sea-level, bearing the State Lunatic Asy-lum, — the largest building in Essex County and visible from a greatdistance. Lindalls Hill slopes down to Danvers Plain, the principalvillage; and a little westward Whipples Hill overlooks Danverscentre, anciently Salem Village. The other villages are Danversport,Tapleyville, Putnamville, Searsville and East Danvers. All exceptthe last three are post-offices. Danversport is at the head of naviga-tion on Porters Elver, at the southeastern part of the township. Itwas formerly quite a shipbuilding place for small vessels, and has nowsome lumber business. An affluent of this river, on the east, is Frost-fish Brook; Crane Brook flows through Danvers centre, furnishingsome power. Beaver-dam Brook, in the south, enters the IpswichRiver; which, flowing northward, forms a considerable part of thewestern line of the town. The Lawrence and the Newburyport rail- fc?i:;ii S; H aw S3 HW f d 2! ? i-3O o > d > < W 53. 11 j*iisk ??»: ffl 262 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. roads, both being branches of the Boston and Maine Railroad, intersectnear the main village, and thus afford direct communication with Bos-ton, Salem, Lawrence and Newburyport. A large number of men en-gaged in the various kinds of transportation business live in this town,as well as merchants and professional men of Boston. The underlying rock is sienite, over which are strewn many bowl-ders, giving ample indications of the glacial period. Good clay forbricks and pottery is found in several localities, and the meadows af-ford peat. The soil elsewhere is loamy and yields excellent are in the town 160 farms, whose product in 1885 amountedto $266,349. Of this the dairies yielded $76,662; and vegetables$88,695. At that date were also reported seven brickyards, with anannual product valued at $26,823 ; six tanneries and morocco factoriesturning out goods
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