This week
Dated, checked, and in Haverhill. Something missing? Tell Mack.
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Thu29Oct
Early voting for the state election
8 AM to 4 PM, City Hall, 4 Summer St (Newcomb St entrance).
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Thu29Oct
Professional Practice: art and design careers exhibit
8 AM to 8 PM, Northern Essex Community College, 100 Elliott St. Through Oct 30.
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Fri30Oct
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Sat31Oct
Haverhill Farmers Market, last Saturday of the season
9 AM to 1 PM, Bradford Common, 10 Church St.
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Thu5Nov
Quiet week on the calendars Mack reads.
Where to eat
Downtown, mostly. Every distance is from Washington Square.
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Barrio
Tacos, tequila and whiskey
Tacos with a patio right on the river. Get there before the sun goes.
0.3 mi · 7 min walk View map Visit website
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Casa Blanca Mexican Cantina
Mexican restaurant
Known for making things at your table. Order the thing that comes with a show.
steps away View map Visit website
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La Pizza di Forno
Pizza
Pizza on Merrimack Street, and a slice at lunch if you're in a hurry.
0.2 mi · 4 min walk View map Visit website
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Joseph's Trattoria Downtown
Italian restaurant
Italian, downtown, the kind of place you take your parents.
0.3 mi · 6 min walk View map Visit website
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The Roma
Italian restaurant
Chicken parm, a patio and function rooms. Bradford's Italian standby.
0.6 mi · 14 min walk View map Visit website
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The Tap Brewing Company
Brewery and restaurant
They brew every batch right there on Washington Street. Have the house beer.
0.2 mi · 4 min walk View map Visit website
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Wang's Table
Asian restaurant and sushi
Sushi bar on Washington Street. The pu pu platter is for sharing, in theory.
0.2 mi · 4 min walk View map Visit website
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Taqueria La Union
Taqueria
New this summer. Birria tacos, and horchata to go with them.
1.0 mi · 2 min drive View map Visit website
On the Merrimack
The river is the reason Haverhill is here. Go look at it.
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Bradford Rail Trail
Paved trail above the river
Under a mile, paved and flat, with the river below you the whole way.
0.8 mi · 16 min walk View map Visit website
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Comeau Bridge
Bridge with a view
Walk halfway across for the best look at downtown from the water.
0.4 mi · 9 min walk View map
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Basiliere Bridge
Route 125 over the Merrimack
Main Street's way over the river to Bradford. Good sunsets, if you're walking.
0.4 mi · 9 min walk View map
Off the river
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Winnekenni Castle and Park
Park with a castle
A real stone castle, built in the 1870s as a summer house. Walk the woods around it.
2.1 mi · 7 min drive View map Visit website
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Plug Pond (Lake Saltonstall)
Pond for a swim or a paddle
Canoes and kayaks welcome, electric motors only. Quiet on purpose.
1.3 mi · 3 min drive View map Visit website
A little shoe-city history
Haverhill made shoes for the whole country once. The buildings are still here.
- By 1913 Haverhill made about one in every ten pairs of shoes in America. Source
- Which is how it got the name Queen Slipper City. Source
- Washington and Wingate Streets held more than sixty shoe factories. Source
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Washington Street Shoe District
Historic district
Two blocks of old shoe factories, on the National Register since 1976. Look up.
0.2 mi · 4 min walk View map Visit website
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Historic New England Center
Shoe Stories exhibit, free
Four hundred years of shoes in an old shoe factory. Free. Back open November 5.
0.2 mi · 5 min walk View map Visit website
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Buttonwoods Museum
Haverhill Historical Society
The historical society, keeping Haverhill's story since 1898, shoes included.
0.9 mi · 19 min walk View map Visit website
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John Greenleaf Whittier Birthplace
The poet's family farmhouse
The farmhouse the poet was born in, dated 1688. Check the hours first.
3.7 mi · 8 min drive View map Visit website
Where to park
Downtown is paid Monday to Saturday. Sundays on the street are free.
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Downtown parking garage
Garage, open 24 hours
The new one. Open all day and all night, and you pay by the door or by phone.
0.4 mi · 9 min walk View map Visit website
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Street parking downtown
Meters and the Passport app
Paid Monday to Saturday, 10 to 8, with the Passport app. Sundays are free.
0.2 mi · 4 min walk View map Visit website
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Haverhill station garage
Garage by the train
Right next to the train, if you came up from Boston or you're heading there.
0.3 mi · 7 min walk View map Visit website
The Official Ranking of Haverhill
Mack keeps exactly one list: the next coolest person in Haverhill, in order. Numbers go in the order people show up and never come back. Your number comes printed on a mug, both sides, and the mug is your proof. No names on here, ever.
- 1Taken
- 2Taken
- 3Taken
- 4Open
