Haverhill’s Rocks Village
Hidden Gem “This is Haverhill?” That’s a common refrain in the pretty, tight-knit, historic enclave of Rocks Village in East Haverhill, perched along a tree-lined edge of the Merrimack River just across the water from West Newbury. When outsiders think of Haverhill, their imaginations often don’t venture beyond its very urban downtown, but Haverhill’s nearly 36 square miles is hugely diverse, filled with rolling farmland, river-view estates, downtown lofts near the commuter rail and new UMass Lowell campus, and hidden-gem neighborhoods like Ward Hill and Ayers Village.![](https://www.nshoremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/haverhill-2.jpg)