Haverhill, Massachusetts: From Town to City

Local author Patricia Trainor O'Malley captures the exuberance and vitality of Haverhill's "Golden Age" with more than 200 photographs from the Haverhill Public Library Special Collections. In 1850, Haverhill, Massachusetts, was a small mercantile and farming town with slightly fewer than6,000 residents. One half-century later, six times that many people called Haverhill home, and it had become an industrial center ranked as one of the top five shoe producers in the nation. The bustling dow...