Newburyport

Newburyport, a city and port of entry of Massachusetts, on the south bank of the Merrimac, 3 miles from its mouth, and 37 miles by rail NE. of Boston. A long, shady High Street, with a pond of six acres, is its chief ornament. Shipbuilding is carried on, and there are a number of large cotton and shoe factories, besides manufactories of combs, hats, pumps, &c. Here Whitefield, who died in 1770, is buried. Pop. (1890) 13,947.