Newburyport Clipper Heritage Trail | Volume 1

“Clipper Heritage Trail, Volume 1,” by local author Ghlee Woodworth is offers a series of guided tours through the city’s storied past. This insightful, engaging and entertaining  volume is based on Woodworth’s award-winning trail website, www.clipperheritagetrail.com.

The book features 16 focused “tours” of various sections of Newburyport, each complete with deeply detailed written history and archival photographs that take readers back in time to understand the experiences of Newburyport’s previous generations and to see the hidden corners of an area where the first settlers of Newbury landed in 1635 on the northern shores of the Parker River.

This amazing 300-page volume includes 370 rich historical images that chronicle the city's downtown and surround area in the 1800's with a chapter dedicated to city's first five years of renewal effort.