Building Route 128 on Cape Ann
...where the construction of Route 128 would alter both landscapes and lifestyles.By the wya, Building Route 128 contains many detailed pictures and stories from here on Cape Ann and all around the Route 128 corridor.
More than 100 years ago, a trolly made
its way up
Washignton Street in Gloucester.
That two-story,
salt-box home it is about to pass is the
White-Ellery
house, which was moved to make way for
Route 128.
(Cape Ann Historical Society)
When the first section of Route 128 was
built in the late
1930s,
the Baker Farm, near School Street in
Manchester, would
escape
barely intact, as an entrance ramp for the
highway would
be
built right across its front door.
(Manchester Historical Society)
Lawrence Atherton planting potatos at the
Caldwell Farm
in Beverly.
Much of what is seen here was taken for
the construction
of Route 128.
Grading for the new highway in Beverly.