Essex
Essex is a town in on Cape Ann in the North Shore region of Massachusetts. Settled by direct descendants of the Mayflower passengers in the early 1600s, it was later world-renowned as North America's fishing schooner construction center.Photo: Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 3,680 residents
- Description: town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Also known as: “Chebacco”, “Chebacco Parish”, “Essex, Essex County”, “Essex, MA”, “Essex, Massachusetts”, and “Essex, USA”
- Postal code: 01929
Places of Interest
Highlights include Essex Town Hall and TOHP Burnham Library and Stavros Reservation.
Essex Town Hall and TOHP Burnham Library
Town hall
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Essex Town Hall and TOHP Burnham Library is an exuberant Shingle Style building at 30 Martin Street in Essex, Massachusetts in the United States. Containing town offices, a public library and an auditorium, it was built in 1893-1894, and its architect was Frank W.
Stavros Reservation
Nature reserve
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The James N. and Mary F. Stavros Reservation is a 74-acre nature reserve located in Essex, Massachusetts. The property has been owned by The Trustees of Reservations since 1986.
Essex
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.6327° or 42° 37′ 58″ northLongitude
-70.7804° or 70° 46′ 49″ westPopulation
3,680Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
US ES6Open location code
87JFJ6M9+3VOpenStreetMap ID
node 158876173OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Essex” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Էսեքս”
- Basque: “Essex”
- Catalan: “Essex”
- Cebuano: “Essex”
- Chechen: “Эссекс”
- Chinese: “艾塞克斯”
- Czech: “Essex”
- Danish: “Essex”
- Dutch: “Essex”
- French: “Essex”
- German: “Essex”
- Haitian: “Essex, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Essex”
- Hungarian: “Essex”
- Italian: “Essex”
- Japanese: “エセックス”
- Kazakh: “Ésseks”
- Kazakh: “Эссекс”
- Kazakh: “ەسسەكس”
- Kirghiz: “Эссекс”
- Mazanderani: “اسکس (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “اسکس”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Essex”
- Norwegian: “Essex”
- Persian: “اسکس، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “اسکس”
- Polish: “Essex”
- Portuguese: “Essex”
- Russian: “Эссекс”
- Serbian: “Есекс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Essex, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Essex”
- Slovak: “Essex”
- South Azerbaijani: “زسکس، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Essex”
- Swahili: “Essex, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Essex”
- Swedish: “Essex, Massachusetts”
- Swedish: “Essex”
- Tatar: “Эссекс”
- Turkish: “Essex, Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Essex”
- Ukrainian: “Ессекс”
- Volapük: “Essex”
- Welsh: “Essex, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Essex”
- “Essex”
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