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Salisbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,283 at the 2010 census. The community is a popular summer resort beach town situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of Boston on the New Hampshire border. Parts of town comprise the census-designated place of Salisbury. ==History== This was once territory of the Pentucket tribe of Pennacook Indians. It was settled by the English in 1638 as Colchester,〔http://www.salisburyma.gov/hist.html〕 and incorporated in 1640 as Salisbury, after Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. The original roads at the center of the town formed a compact semicircle, which allowed the residents to quickly reach the garrison house in case of attack. Those roads still exist, though the shape today is triangular, being bounded by Elm Street, School Street and Bridge Road. One of the two greatest fears at the time was the Naumkeag tribe of Indians, thus the men of the town took turns standing watch against a surprise attack, especially at night. The Naumkeags, however, had been decimated by plague, and the threat was not what it once might have been. The second threat came from wolves, which were plentiful, and which killed the livestock and dug in the graveyard.〔(Joseph Merrill, ''History of Amesbury, including the First 17 Years of Salisbury, to the Separation in 1654''; Press of Franklin P. Stiles, Haverhill, Massachusetts 1880 )〕 The original residents were given one small house lot near the center of town, and one larger planting lot just outside the center for farming. Families also owned large sections of "sweepage lots" near the beach, where apparently they harvested the salt marsh hay. At the time, the area was almost entirely unbroken virgin forest, which had to be cleared for the construction of houses and the planting of fields. In 1866, Beach Road was constructed across Great Marsh, providing access to the town's five miles of pristine beach. It developed into a thriving summer resort, lined with hotels, restaurants, shops, cottages, arcades and amusement parks. A carousel called ''The Flying Horses'', hand carved by Charles I. D. Looff, was installed in 1914. John Miller built ''The Sky Rocket,'' the beach's first roller coaster. A Dodgem ride, originally built by Max and Harold Stoeher of Methuen, operated at Salisbury Beach in one form or another from 1920 to 1980. Major entertainers provided concerts, including Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Liberace. The resort remained vibrant through the 1960s, then gradually faded. ''WildCat'', the last roller coaster, was razed in 1976. Pirate's Fun Park, the last small amusement park, closed in 2004 to be replaced with condominiums.〔(Salisbury Beach State Reservation -- A Few Tidbits of Salisbury Beach History )〕 Image:Hotel Cushing, Salisbury Beach, MA.jpg|Hotel Cushing c. 1905 Image:The Surf, Salisbury Beach, MA.jpg|The surf in 1906 Image:Transfer Station, Salisbury Beach, MA.jpg|Transfer Station c. 1914 Image:The Flying Horses, Salisbury Beach, MA.jpg|''The Flying Horses'' c. 1914 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Salisbury, Massachusetts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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