Ferncroft

Ferncroft is a hamlet in Town of Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts. Ferncroft is situated nearby to the hamlet Hathorne, as well as near Putnamville.

Places of Interest

Highlights include General Israel Putnam House and St. John’s Preparatory School.

General Israel Putnam House

Historic house

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The General Israel Putnam House in Danvers, Massachusetts, United States, is a historic First Period house recorded in the National Register of Historic Places.

St. John’s Preparatory School

School

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St. John's Preparatory School is a grade 6–12 private, Catholic, all-boys college-preparatory school located at 72 Spring Street, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States.

Putnamville Schoolhouse

Building

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Putnamville Schoolhouse is a building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Danvers and Middleton.

Danvers is a town in Massachusetts with a population of about 28,000. A large part of the town used to be called "Salem Village" and was where most of the accusers in the 1692 witch hysteria lived. The trials took place in neighboring Salem.

Middleton

Town

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North Reading is a town of 15,000 in the southern part of the Merrimack Valley region of Eastern Massachusetts. Middleton is a town with a population of 10,000. Middleton is situated 3 miles west of Ferncroft.

Peabody

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Peabody is a city of 54,000 in the suburban area of the North Shore in Massachusetts. In the April 2009 edition of Forbes Magazine, Peabody was ranked the 14th most livable city in the United States.

Ferncroft

Type: Hamlet
Also known as: “Beaver Brook”, “Beaver Brook Station”, “Beaver Station”, and “Ferncroft Station”
Category: locality
Location: Town of Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.57926° or 42° 34′ 45″ north

Longitude

-70.95783° or 70° 57′ 28″ west

Elevation

69 feet (21 metres)

Open location code

87JFH2HR+PV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158909301

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4936354

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