AIRPLANES Part 2 Besides having a small airport in the quarry near Alexander Pike, Marblehead also had a resident who was an inventor and...

The Railroads- Part 2 Last month, we learned that the steam-powered Lakeside & Marblehead Railroad, which made its first trip in 1887,...

The Railroads- Part 1 Because the Lake Erie shipping industry was curtailed during the winter when the lakes were frozen, the idea of...

The First Ships in the Area Before the invention of the automobile, transportation on the Marblehead Peninsula was by walking, or by...

Marblehead has not one, not two, but three different Catholic Churches: St. Joseph Roman Catholic, St. Mary Byzantine Greek Catholic,...

Back in the early 1870’s, it was almost like a race. Two religious communities on the Marblehead Peninsula, within blocks of each other,...

Students in Mrs. Sampson's 5th Grade class at Danbury Elementary are reading the book Restart by Gordon Korman and were in need of a...

“The Bravest Man in Buffalo” The Buffalo Times, Sunday May 8, 1910 By Lorrie Halblaub In a past article, we learned that in 1875, the...

The 200th birthday of the Marblehead Lighthouse this year was a huge success. The Bicentennial Committee planned a variety of events. It...