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Northshore October 2025
Sometimes it can seem as if the modern world simply passed Hamilton and Wenham by. A drive through the two small, closely linked North Shore towns reveals no remnants of abandoned industry, no tall contemporary buildings, no major shopping areas. But there are plenty of rolling fields edged by stone walls, clapboard houses that are hundreds of years old, and small clusters of local businesses.  “It’s a peaceful place to live,” says Jack Wilhelm, chair of the Wenham Board of Selectmen. “People just come here and stay for years—I’ve never heard someone want to move.” Photograph by Hannah Daigle Wenham, then part of Salem
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