Browse Exhibits (2 total)

Bits of Beauty

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Welcome to Bits of Beauty! This online exhibit sourced from our archives and special collections invites you to choose a new view and learn to look for the lovely in the everyday.  Periodically will highlight something from our collection, let us know what you see! 

Enjoy these snapshots, closeups, excerpts, and endnotes and join us to try a slow approach to seeing.  

Built Around Amesbury

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Explore the built environment around Amesbury to learn more about our government, education, open space, housing, social services, and industry that shaped our community.

Understand social factors that informed neighborhood development, how firefighting and access to water influenced housing construction, the role of zoning in urban development, the history of education through the lost schoolhouses of Amesbury, where and why churches were built, and how transporation changed our city streets.