 ... house lots. Many Salem people, besides more from Lowell and Nashua, NH, spend the summer months here. The United States government has two reservations on " the Neck " for fortifications — Forts Lee and Pickering, both now tumbling to ruin, though...  Visitors' Guide to Salem - Page 281880 - 54 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Salem (Mass.) - 1894 - 296 pages
...1799 the noted frigate, '-Essex," was built at a spot not far from the lighthouse on Winter Island. There was a fort on Winter Island as early as 1643, and on tne si'e of Fort Lee, the heights of the Neck, in 1742. During the war of 1812 there were three forts... | |
 | Thomas Franklin Hunt, Essex Institute - Salem (Mass.) - 1895 - 274 pages
...1799 the noted trigate, " Essex," was built at a spot not far from the lighthouse on Winter Island. There was a fort on Winter Island as early as 1643,...the war of 1812 there were three forts at the Neck — Pickering, Lee and Juniper. The United States government has two reservations on the N'eck for... | |
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