Here's the statue of Hannah Dustin in Haverhill, MA. I too grew up in Haverhill and had heard the Hannah Dustin story since I was a kid. I grew up on the banks of the Merrimac river near the Methuen line. There is a monument at the spot where she came ashore after escaping that was erected in the early 1800's. The monument is about 100yds south of the rest area hidden by dense undergrowth on the river bank. There's probably only a handfull of people who know the monument is there (besides the neighborhood kids :) ), it's so well hidden.
Haverhill, the city that refuses to die I like that, and soo true.
I grew up on the banks of the Merrimac river near the Methuen line. There is a monument at the spot where she came ashore after escaping that was erected in the early 1800's. The monument is about 100yds south of the rest area hidden by dense undergrowth on the river bank.I'm trying to remember the place name for your section of town, IYAAYAS, and can't for the life of me. Seems to me it was the name of a stream that entered the Merrimac right around there.
I'm a Riverside lad myself, part of the notorious Tilton's Corner crew from the fifties and sixties. Tilton's Corner is the intersection where the Riverside Memorial Church and Hannah's Market are on Groveland Street. We were quite the "gang" what with our baseball and football teams, pimples, hot rods and teenage angst.
Sometimes I think I'm related to half the population of Riverside.