BRADFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

'Bradford' is a former town in Essex County, Massachusetts on the banks of the Merrimack River. It included land that was originally part of Rowley, Massachusetts. It was known as "Merrimac Lands," and "Rowley Village by the Merrimack" and "Merrimack." The name was changed to Bradford at a town meeting held January 7, 1672. It was named in memory of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Some of the settlers emigrated from there. The town first paid colonial tax on October 13, 1675.

Contents

History

Education

Notable residents

References

History

Part of Bradford was incorporated as the town of Groveland, Massachusetts on March 8, 1850. The town of Bradford was annexed to the city of Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1897. Presently, ''Bradford, Massachusetts'' refers to a neighborhood in eastern and southeastern Haverhill.

Education

★ Bradford College (Massachusetts)

★ Carleton School for Boys

★ Caleb Dustin Hunking Middle School

★ Bradford Elementary School

★ Greenleaf Elementary School

★ Knipe Elementary School (now closed)(now the Bradford Christian Academy)

★ Cogswell Elementary School (now closed)

★ Wood Elementary School (now closed)

Notable residents

★ Isaac N. Carleton, educator, founder of Bradford's Carleton School for Boys

★ Walter Tenney Carleton, businessman, one of the three founding directors of NEC Corporation

★ Ann Judson, America's first overseas female missionary

References

★ Topsfield Historical Society (1907), ''Vital Records of Bradford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850''.