Mingo Beach, Beverly Farms

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Subject

Mingo Beach (Beverly, Mass.)

Beaches -- Massachusetts -- Beverly;Shorelines -- Massachusetts -- Beverly

Description

Mingo Beach, Hale Street, looking west. Mingo beach was named for a slave named Robin Mingo, who was promised his freedom if the tide ever went low enough to walk to Aunt Becky's Ledge just offshore. It happened the year Mingo died.

Identifier

http://heritage.noblenet.org/items/show/11367

http://heritage.noblenet.org/archive/files/httpwwwnoblenetorgimagesbevshoreline23a_50bd6235bb.jpg

Files

Collection

Beverly Postcard Collection

Citation

“Mingo Beach, Beverly Farms,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 22, 2013, http://digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1923.

Comments

Stephen P. Hall, Beverly Historian

In the description..."Mingo beach was named for a slave named Robin Mingo, who was promised his freedom if the tide ever went low enough to walk to Aunt Becky's Ledge just offshore. It happened the year Mingo died." This is a Myth...pure fiction. Mingo owned the land as a freeman. The low tide story is story happening the year he died is pure fiction.

2013-01-05 12:54:13