Prides Crossing

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The name is associated with John Pride – supposedly a nephew of Thomas Pride – who was granted land in the area in 1636.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalmarker00mass/page/10/mode/2up |page=10 |title=Historical markers erected by Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission |year=1930 |publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts |via=Internet Archive}} In the late 1800s and early 1900s grand mansions were built as summer "cottages' for wealthy business magnates. Henry Clay Frick,[http://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/about/henry_clay_frick.php Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506235325/http://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/about/henry_clay_frick.php |date=2014-05-06 }}. Frick Art & Historical Center. Retrieved 15 May 2011. who made his fortune in steel (Carnegie Steel) was among the best known of these summer residents. He built "Eagle Rock",[http://www.primaryresearch.org/postcards/show.php?file=frickhouse.jpg Residence of H.C. Frick, Prides Crossing near Beverly, Mass.] Primaryresearch.org. Retrieved 15 May 2011. located between Hale Street and the Atlantic Ocean. Edward Carelton Swift,{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/04/09/101773507.pdf |title=Funeral of Edwin C. Swift |newspaper=New York Times |date=9 April 1906 |accessdate=15 May 2011}} at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, "Swiftmoor"[http://www.primaryresearch.org/postcards/show.php?file=Swiftmoor.jpg Swiftmoor, estate of Edwin C. Swift, Prides Crossing, Beverly, Mass.]. Primaryresearch.org. Retrieved 15 May 2011. on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora "Eleo" Sears, a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player, owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.

Wealthy residents were known to travel to Prides Crossing in their private railroad cars, disembarking at the Prides Crossing station, located on Hale Street across from the entrance gates to Paine Avenue. (Some, including Frick and Moore, had private sidings for their cars.{{cite web |url=https://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/Story-How-the-Fricks-Traveled-The-Westmoreland |title=How the Fricks Traveled: The Westmoreland |publisher=The Frick Pittsburgh |date=January 9, 2020}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.drivingdigest.com/articles/135-a-glimpse-of-life-well-lived |title=A Glimpse of Life Well-Lived |first=Holly |last=Pulsifer |magazine=Drivers Digest}}) MBTA Commuter Rail service to the station lasted until 2020; the structure was converted to commercial use decades prior.

On August 11, 1981, a Boston & Maine passenger train operated for the MBTA collided head-on with a Boston & Maine freight train near Prides Crossing, killing four people.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/12/us/3-men-killed-in-collision-of-massachusetts-trains.html|title = 3 Men Killed in Collision of Massachusetts Trains|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 12 August 1981|last1 = Clendinen|first1 = Dudley}}

• Frederick Ayer, industrialist{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/15/98260570.pdf |title=Frederick Ayer dies in Georgia at 95 |date=15 March 1918 |newspaper=New York Times |accessdate=15 May 2011}}
• Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II, French-American military officer
• Henry Clay Frick, steel magnate
• William Loeb III, newspaper publisher known for conservative views{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-loeb-chuckles-refuses/161512805/ |title=Loeb chuckles, refuses to engage in vituperation |first=David |last=Nyhan |authorlink=David Nyhan |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=19 |date=February 27, 1972 |accessdate=December 25, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}
• Alice Roosevelt Longworth, writer and socialite
• Loring family:{{cite book |title=Images of America: Beverly Revisited |isbn=9780738573588 |year=2010 |author=Beverly Historical Society |publisher=Arcadia Publishing}}{{rp|34}}
• Augustus Peabody Loring Jr. (1885–1951), legal writer{{cite magazine |url=https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/624 |title=Memoir of Augustus Peabody Loring, Jr. |magazine=Transactions of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts |date=February 1952 |volume=42 |publisher=Colonial Society of Massachusetts |page=7}}
• Charles Greely Loring III (1881–1966), architect based in Boston, son of the Civil War general
• Charles Greely Loring Jr. (1828–1902), Union Army general during the Civil War, later director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
• Charles Greely Loring Sr. (1794–1867), lawyer and politician based in Boston, father of the Civil War general
• Katharine Peabody Loring (1849–1943), historian{{cite news |url=https://www.salemnews.com/opinion/essex-county-chronicles-train-service-turned-coastal-farms-into-playground-for-the-wealthy/article_f0cbeb11-7375-5094-b021-5e2ef18a9839.html |title=Essex County Chronicles: Train service turned coastal farms into playground for the wealthy |newspaper=Salem News |date=October 4, 2010 |first=Jim |last=McAllister |accessdate=March 10, 2021}}
• William Loring (1851–1930), Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73170613/the-boston-globe/ |title=One train stop to be restored |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=January 15, 1927 |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• William Henry Moore, judge and financier
• Norman Prince, co-founder of the Lafayette Escadrille
• Richard D. Sears, tennis player[http://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/richard-sears Richard Sears] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807223458/http://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/richard-sears |date=2011-08-07 }}. International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
• Edwin C. Swift, industrialist

{{Reflist}}

• Wright, John Hardy (2000). Images of America, Beverly (Paperback ed.)Charlestown S.C. Arcadia. {{ISBN|0-7524-0814-3}}

• [http://www.beverlyfarms.org/westbeach.shtml Beverly Farms- Prides Crossing Website]
• [http://www.primaryresearch.org/PRTHB/Neighborhoods/Farms/index.php History of Beverly Farms, Primary research, Neighborhoods of Beverly]

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