Swampscott train wreck

The John Humphreys House, also known as Sir John Humphreys House, is a historic house museum located in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Although it was long thought to be associated with John Humphrey, an early deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was more likely built about 1700, based on architectural analysis. In 1641 Deborah Moody bought the Humphrey house (which he called Swampscott) and 900 acres when the Humphreys returned to England giving her over 1300 acres of what would become Swampscott, Massachusetts. The house was originally located on what is now Elmwood Road (a plaque marks the site), but moved to its current location in 1891 as the Olmsted district was developed. It is currently owned by the Swampscott Historical Society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Swampscott station is a historic railroad station in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Located in the southwest portion of Swampscott near the Lynn border, it serves the MBTA Commuter Rail Newburyport/Rockport Line. The historic Stick/Eastlake-style depot building, was originally built in 1868 for the Eastern Railroad, but is no longer in use. The location still serves as an accessible MBTA Commuter Rail stop and park-and-ride location for Swampscott and adjoining Marblehead. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as Swampscott Railroad Depot.

Olmsted Subdivision Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by New Ocean St/Paradise Road, Swampscott Avenue, Redington Street and Burrill Street in Swampscott, Massachusetts. According to the May 2005 Massachusetts Heritage Landscape Inventory Program (Swampscott Reconnaissance Report), “This large residential neighborhood was planned by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. in 1888 at the request of the Swampscott Land Trust. The 130-acre estate had belonged to E. Redington Mudge. Olmsted’s plan with its curvilinear roads layout, traffic islands, entrance parkway, use of the topographic features and fine architecture is remarkably well preserved. The roads and traffic islands are maintained by the town. The shapes have not been altered; however the town has been unable to maintain original plant material. Part of the original plan showed “Overlook Park” with steps leading to it at the end of Monument Avenue. It was never constructed and in its place is a huge house on top of the hill. The original subdivision had 191 lots of varying sizes and shapes.” It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. At the same time, many argue that Olmsted never actually set foot in Swampscott, and the original plan was only for a strip of land that begins roughly at Humphrey Street and concludes where Monument Avenue turns into Walker Road.

Swampscott () is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 15 miles (24 km) up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States Census. A former summer resort on Massachusetts Bay, Swampscott is today a fairly affluent residential community and includes the village of Beach Bluff, as well as part of the neighborhood of Clifton.

Swampscott Town Hall, previously the Elihu Thomson House, is a historic building in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The house was designed by architect James T. Kelley and built in 1889 for the noted inventor, electrical engineer, and industrialist Elihu Thomson (1853-1937). Thomson was, with Edwin J. Houston, co-founder of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company which would later merge with Thomas Edison's Edison General Electric Company to become the General Electric Company. The house was built with an observatory, which no longer exists. It has housed Swampscott town offices since 1944, when it was given to the town by Thomson's heirs. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 for its association with Thomson.

Swampscott Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 400 Essex Street in Swampscott, Massachusetts. It is the town's only cemetery, and was established in 1852, not long after the town's incorporation. About 20 acres (8.1 ha) of the cemetery's 30 hectares (74 acres) have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its historic portion is a representative of the rural cemetery movement that was popular in the 19th century, with meandering lanes and natural landscaping.

KIPP Academy Lynn Middle School in the United States provides an environment where the students of Lynn, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts) may develop the academic skills, intellectual habits, and character traits necessary to maximize their potential in high school, college, and the world beyond. KIPP Academy Lynn (often referred to as KIPP Lynn) is modeled after the nationally recognized Knowledge Is Power Program in South Bronx, New York and Houston, Texas. It's a free, public middle school that opened its doors on August 9, 2004 to its first class of fifth graders. They added sixth graders in the 2005-2006 school year, and seventh graders in the 2006-2007 school year. KIPP Lynn served grades five through eight since the 2007-2008 school year. It shared the Holy Family Church of Lynn and building two sets of modulars for the two upper grades at KIPP Lynn. As of June 2008, KIPP Academy Lynn has graduated its founding class of 2012. The students of the Class of 2012 headed off to various Catholic and private schools. Some of the high schools that KIPP Lynn students attended are Northfield Mount Hermon School, Pingree School, Bishop-Fenwick Catholic School, North Cambridge High School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Academy, and St. Mary's High School of Lynn. They have been recognized by newspapers across the Boston area such as The Boston Globe and Lynn's local newspaper, The Daily Item

Swampscott Fish House is a historic fishing supply storage house off Humphrey Street on Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott, Massachusetts. It is the oldest active fish house in the country. The shingle-style house was built in 1896 on land taken by eminent domain. The Fish House consolidated the many fishing structures that stretched along the oceanfront obscuring views of the ocean and subtracting from the area's appeal as a swimming beach. The Fish House is also home to the Swampscott Yacht Club and the Swampscott Sailing Program. The yacht club is refinished with a porch and a bar. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

The Preble Box Toe Company explosion occurred on November 8, 1928, at the company's factory in Lynn, Massachusetts. Eleven people died in the blast and resulting fires and another nine later died from their injuries, making it the deadliest explosion to occur in Greater Boston.

Lynn Shore Drive is an historic oceanfront parkway in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Composed of a two-lane road, parkland, a seaside pedestrian esplanade, and a seawall, Lynn Shore Drive runs for approximately one mile (1.6 km) along Lynn's Atlantic Ocean coastline, following the upland boundary of the adjoining Lynn Shore Reservation, and connecting Nahant with Swampscott.Known for its scenic views of the open Atlantic, Nahant Bay, Egg Rock, and Boston Skyline, Lynn Shore Drive is part of the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway and forms the southeasterly edge of the National Register Diamond Historic District. The Lynn Shore Drive seawall is a contributing resource to the National Register District--as are many of the historic homes lining the drive’s inland edge.An early example of a parkway, and distinctive by virtue of its oceanfront setting, Lynn Shore Drive opened to the public in 1907. Prior to the drive’s creation, Lynn’s oceanfront was held largely in private estates and was not accessible to the public.The effort to create Lynn Shore Drive was pioneered in part by George N. Nichols, a Lynn resident who, in 1874—at age 19—petitioned Lynn’s City Council to appropriate for public use the lands along the Diamond District’s oceanfront.Between 1895 and 1903, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Metropolitan District Commission acquired land parcels encompassing a substantial stretch of Lynn’s coastline, laying the groundwork for the construction of Lynn Shore Drive--and the contemporaneous creation of the adjoining Lynn Shore and Nahant Beach Reservations.Lynn Shore Drive is today managed by the Metropolitan District Commission's successor agency, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

The New Ocean House was an American hotel located in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The hotel was built in 1888 to replace an earlier hotel that had been destroyed by fire. In 1902 it was purchased by Allen Ainslie of the Maplewood Hotel in Bethlehem, New Hampshire and Edward R. Grabow of The Buckminster, who enlarged, renovated, and refurnished the building, which they renamed the New Ocean House. The pair added 50 rooms (34 of which had private bathrooms) to bring the total to 210. The entire first floor was redone and included an elegant rotunda and lobby. Electricity was run throughout the entire building. In 1922, a steel and concrete annex was completed, bringing the total number of rooms to 300. By 1923, the property had grown from 3 acres to 19, was doing $400,000 worth of business annually, and valued at $1.3 million. From 1926 to 1959 the New Ocean House was run by Clement Kennedy, who managed the New Ocean House during the summer and Vinoy Park Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida during the winter.The New Ocean House had a private beach directly in front of the hotel, 25 acres of lawns and gardens, a saltwater swimming pool, tennis courts, and a pitch and putt course. The first floor contained a butcher shop, fish market, barber shop, bakery, drug store, tailor, and laundry. It was a center of social activity on the North Shore, hosting dances, conventions, reunions, concert, vaudeville shows, and tennis tournaments. Rudy Vallée performed at the New Ocean House early in his career.The hotel hosted a number of celebrities, including Will Rogers, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Helen Keller, Faith Baldwin, Alexander Woollcott, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Babe Ruth, Florence Chadwick, John F. Kennedy, William Jennings Bryan, Henry F. Ashurst, and Carlos P. Romulo. It also served as headquarters for White House staff during Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 stay at nearby White Court, during John Aspinwall Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark's 1938 wedding in Nahant, Massachusetts, and during the 1941 Atlantic Charter conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.In 1959, the hotel was purchased by a group led by Boston industrialist Harold A. Rudnick. In 1965 it was sold to Dr. George Rohrborough.On May 8, 1969, the New Ocean House was destroyed by a fire. There were no guests at the time of the fire and only a clerk and three kitchen workers were in the building when the fire started. The fire started in the rear of the building and the first alarm was struck at 9:53 p.m. The hotel's sprinkler system and misty air helped suppress the fire and firefighters initially thought the fire could be contained. However, intense heat forced them back and the fire spread along the roof to the front of the building. Firefighting efforts were hampered by narrow streets and low water pressure and by 12:30 a.m. the fire had spread across the entire 300-foot front of the building. By 1 am the fire was out of control. Crews from 25 communities fought the blaze, which was not put out until 2:48 p.m. on May 10. No cause was determined, however a hotel spokesperson stated that it may have started in a staging area erected for plumbing work. After the fire, the hotel was replaced by 30 houses in 2 streets. Puritan Rd(where the entrance/lobby was)to Sutton Pl(the middle to back part of the hotel)

The General Glover House, also known as the Glover Farmhouse, is a 1700s colonial house, and the final home to Revolutionary War hero General John Glover, located on the Marblehead - Swampscott - Salem border. The house sits on the historic 2.4 acre property, formerly known as the Glover Farm, that also contains a collection of other historic buildings representing different eras of the farms history. This is includes an old barn, inn building, and former store.