Beverly

Beverly
/bev"euhr lee/, n.
1. a city in NE Massachusetts. 37,655.
2. Also, Beverley. a female or male given name: from an Old English word meaning "dweller at the beaver meadow."

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      city, Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It is situated on Beverly Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Salem. Settled about 1626, it was named for Beverley, England, when incorporated as a town (township) in 1668. It early developed as a shipping centre, and the schooner Hannah, claimed to be the first ship of the U.S. Navy, was commissioned (September 5, 1775) at Glover's Wharf in Beverly by George Washington. One of New England's first successful cotton-weaving mills was built there in 1789. From 1903 until the early 1970s, the city had one of the nation's largest shoe-machinery factories. The economy is now mixed, and the electronics industry and summer tourism are particularly important. Historic buildings include Hale House (1694), the Cabot House (1781–82), and the Balch House (1636). Beverly is also the seat of Endicott College (1939) and has a campus of North Shore Community College (1965). Inc. city, 1894. Pop. (1990) 38,195; (2000) 39,862.

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