Mansion-By-The-Sea

King Charles I of England granted the town to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, according to the Manchester Historical Society. Settlers began arriving that same year, bringing with them the plague that all but wiped out the native Algonquin tribe. By 1700, the Europeans had purchased or taken all the land in the area, and in the following century the area developed into what would be for a time the world's largest fishing port. [ read more ]