Marblehead on the Eve of Independence

As Great Britain’s colonies in North America launched into their long war for independence, the gritty but prosperous international Atlantic seaport of Marblehead was a very different place than most people today realize or assume. 

On Thursday evening, May 2nd, at 7 pm at the Marblehead Museum or on Zoom through the Museum, an illustrated talk by Judy Anderson, a social, architectural and cultural historian, will profile the boisterous town at the peak of its pre-Revolutionary prosperity in the mid-1700s, when Marblehead was the sixth most populous metropolis in British North, before political divisions began to erupt and the town's economy crashed due to the service of perhaps more than 90 percent of the town's adult male population in the long and grueling struggle for independence, from nearly a thousand total families. 

https://marbleheadmuseum.org/upcoming-programs-page/
 

$10 members / $15 public