Fishing. Boating. Shoemaking. Partaking in the Revolutionary War. All of these industries were once booming in Marblehead. But I want to write about one less common. The original structure at 18 Sewall St. was destroyed in the fire of 1888, just a few years after being built. Before the fire, it appeared on the 1885 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of Marblehead. There, the … [Read more...] about Historic Building of the Week: 18 Sewall St.
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