When Was The Causeway Built?

Each week, we field a question from one of our readers and head out on a mission to find the answer. This week one local reader want to know: When was the causeway to Marblehead Neck built?

The simple answer is, well, never.

According to Karen Mac Innis, curator at the , the causeway has always been there. The current version may be reinforced, paved and lined with sea walls but a naturally-formed "causeway" always linked Marblehead Neck to town.

"There is no recorded evidence that indicates the Neck has ever been an island," Mac Innis said. "Even dating back as far as when the first settlers arrived, it has just always been there."

That's not to say it hasn't been built up considerably by engineers over the last hundred years or so.

"They sent telegraph wires across the causeway long before they paved it, but it was always there," Mac Innis said.

Check out the photograph attached to this article for a look at the causeway in 1898, when telegraph wires had been extended out to residents on the Neck.

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