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Northshore October 2025
For decades, the city of Haverhill emanated the beautiful melancholy that comes only from faded grandeur. The imposing brick shoe factories that spanned whole city blocks and once earned Haverhill the nickname “Queen Slipper City” sat nearly empty as the formerly prosperous downtown—once bustling with shops, trolleys, and even the predecessor to Macy’s New York department store—slipped into neglect.  Haverhill’s mill buildings are being converted into places to live, play, and work. Because of this downturn, Haverhill developed a bit of a “scrappy” reputation, according to the writer Andre Dubus III, who immortalize
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