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Description: Second period Georgian with Gambrel roof.

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View the tombstones and hundreds of names of people buried at Old North Burying Ground at Gravematter.com

The Ipswich Center to Crane Beach Recreational Trail, isa proposed 4′ wide stone dust path along scenic Argilla Road which someday will connect the commuter rail station in the center of Ipswich to beautiful Crane Beach.

The Ipswich Commuter Rail: Ipswich is on the Boston-Newburyport commuter rail line of the Metropolitan Boston Transportation Authority (MBTA). View the commuter rail schedule.

The Ipswich Historic Riverwalk is the jewel of the town’s Riverwalk network, providing a recreational destination for residents and tourists. It connects the town’s historic heritage on both sides of the river with its commercial center and provides easier access to the Ipswich commuter rail station. The Riverwalk is accessible from Union St. behind the EBSCO Publishing and from S. Main Street just below the Choate Bridge. (Explore the river further on the Sidney N. Shurcliff River Walk that runs from the County St. bridge to Town Hall on Green St.)

South Green was originally known as School House Green. Many of the most important early settlers received grants of land here. Painting above is by Ipswich historic painter  Johanne Cassia

Maplecroft FarmTrail: A 2009 Ipswich town meeting voted to purchase and place conservation restrictions on 247 acres of  . The Essex County Trail Association (ECTA) maintains a 1.4 mile walking trail through the property from Argilla Road near Heartbreak Hill to Rt. 133 at Raymond Field. This is a working farm– dogs and bikes are not permitted. There is no parking for the trail, but the proposed Ipswich Center to Crane Beach trail will provide pedestrian access with a 1.5 mile walk from downtown Ipswich to the Argilla Rd. trailhead.  View the trail map for Maplecroft Farm.

Hamlin Reservation This former coastal farmland is now protected by the Trustees of Reservations and is open to visitors, providing access to the salt marsh via a dike path that leads to a loop trail around Eagle Island. Gently rolling fields and marsh meadows at the provide a home to bobolinks and small mammals in this remote area isolated from the modern world. Hamlin Reservation Map

Choate Island: 135-acre Choate Island (Hog Island) in Ipswich MA is the largest island in the Crane Wildlife Refuge and part of the estate owned by Chicago industrialist Richard Crane, Jr., along with Crane Beach and Crane Castle and Castle Neck, now all owned by the Trustees of Reservations. Seven islands in the Essex River Estuary (Choate, Long, Dean, Dilly, Pine, Patterson, and Round island) and part of Castle Neck make up the bulk of the Refuge. Choate Island hosts grasslands, fields and a spruce forest,  surrounded by the Great Marsh and Castle Neck River. Access is along a gravel road that ends at the entrance to Crane Beach in Ipswich. is open from 8 am to 4 pm daily, crossing by canoe or kayak. 3.5 miles of gravel roads and mown foot trails lead from the island’s dock to the historic barn and continue past the past the 250-year-old Choate House to the Crane burial site at the top of Choate Island. The outstanding views of the marsh, Crane Beach, Plum Island, and Mt. Agamenticus 60 miles away near the Maine coast will bring you back time and again.

Russell Orchards: Russell Orchards property has been a working farm since 1920 and is comprised of 120 acres of fields, gardens, orchards, and barns. The Essex County Greenbelt Association established an agricultural restriction on the land so that it can never be developed. The Russell family welcomes visitors to the farm store during regular store hours. Other areas are open to paying pick-your-own customers during designated hours

Crane Beach at the end of Argilla Road was voted the most popular beach in the Boston area in a recent poll. The extensive beach, 5 miles of dune trails along Castle Neck and the Crane Castle are managed by the
Trustees of Reservations.  Crane Beach and Castle Neck Map

This three mile hike begins at Veterans recreational field on Mile Lane near Linebrook Road in Ipswich.  From the parking lot enter the path on the far side of the baseball field.  The trail soon crosses a bridge that separates the larger section of Bull Brook  Reservoir from the brook and estuary at its southwestern tip. Bear left on the trail to continue through a hardwood / evergreen forest . As you cross under the utility wires you can explore a large granite outcropping in on the right.  At the next fork you have the option to bear left and continue for a longer option.  This can also take you to the Dow Brook Conservation Area entrance near  White Farms Ice Cream at the Rowley town line.  After a couple of  right turns  you reach an intersection at the end of Dow Brook Reservoir where the shorter and longer options  rejoin.   Continue walking on the wide path along Dow Brook Reservoir until you again reach the power lines at the Ipswich end of the lake.  There are no signs here and finding the trail that continues back to Bull Brook can be confusing.  Turn left to the utility department road and then enter the path again through the gated gravel road behind the water treatment building.  You can see Dow Brook flowing on the left and you’ll soon come upon its spillway.  A narrow path continues along the lake, or you may take the wider path on the right.  The trail comes back to a fork near the Bull Brook bridge you crossed over earlier, and then retrace your steps on the path back to the ball field.  The total distance for the shorter version of this hike (shown in the map below) is about 3 miles.  Add another mile for the longer loop.  Birders may wish to continue the walk to the far corner of the recreational field where a unusual number of songbirds congregate near the wetlands.  Read more about trails and conservation areas at the two reservoirs  at the Essex County Trails Association (ECTA) site.

Even more property is protected nearby by the Parker River Wildlife Refuge to the north, Appleton Farms and Bradley Palmer State Park  to the south and west.  The map below is an approximation is from the 2004 Ipswich Town Character Statement, prepared by the town Department of Planning and Development.

Last September Elizabeth took 33 days to walk over 400 miles on Spain’s Camino de Santiago. For over a thousand years pilgrims have walked the “The Way of Saint James” to be cured of injuries and illnesses. She described the experience as ” humbling physically, mentally and spiritually”

Elizabeth will also be collecting coats for Rosie’s Place in Boston, which has resorted to a lottery every night to give warm clothing to their guests, since there isn’t enough to go around. Rosie’s needs women’s, men’s and children’s coats. There will be a box outside the library on the 8th and there is one at the Y just inside the door. Contact Elizabeth Kilcoyne for more information.