In honor of the Memorial Day holiday, we’ve put together photos and clippings from our archives to highlight this special occasion throughout Haverhill’s history. Enjoy this trip down memory lane and be sure to explore our Senter Digital Archive for more historic photos and information.
Monument was designed by Calvin H. Weeks and was dedicated July 5, 1869. Weeks was also Mayor of Haverhill in 1884. The names of 187 men are carved in its base. The face was modeled after Major Henry Jackson How, who died in the Civil War and for whom the G.A.R. Post is named. Haverhill City band in white on the right, G.A.R. veterans in front of monument, Pentucket Light Infantry in front center.
Haverhill Fire Department in Memorial Day Parade at Elm Corner, ca. 1887-1888
Memorial Day Parade on Haverhill Bridge, late 19th Century
From left to right Robert Upton , Frank H. Russ , Oren E. Farr, William K. Miller, Ezra G. Bly, and Charles O. Kelly.”
Photographs from the 2002 Memorial Day Parade at Linwood Cemetery. More photos can be found here and all photographs were taken by Tom Vartabedian who was a writer and photographer for the Haverhill Gazette for 50 years.
Color Guard 
VFW Veterans 
Women in Uniform 
Marine Corps Junior ROTC from Haverhill High School 
Sons of Italy Drum & Bugle Corps 
Police Ceremony 
Korean War veterans, man in center is former Marine Richard Broadnax 
Korean War veterans 
Elks Lodge 165
Those identified are Dick Blinn; Rick McPhee; ‘Huggy’ Duggan; Jack McKenna; Larry Granger; Jim Edwards.
Haverhill High School marching band 
Mayor Guerin at podium and those seated or standing are Mike Ingham; City Councillors Mary Ellen Daly-O’Brien, Lou Fossarelli and Donna Credit; State Representative Brian Dempsey; Father Frederick Sweeney, pastor of St John the Baptist; John Kazarosian; City Councillors John Mitchison & Bob DesMarais, and standing behind the seats is Joe Bevilacqua.