Moll Pitcher was Lynn's clairvoyant in the late 1700's, a decendant of many wizards and fortune tellers.

Moll's home was at the base of High Rock. Her husband Robert was unable to find employment as a shoe worker (couldn't find work as a shoemaker in Lynn?) so Moll read tea leaves and predicted the fortunes of many Lynners. She became so popular that many people traveled from Europe to learn their futures. Sailors wouldn't head out to sea unless they received reassurances from Moll.  

Women of Lynn

Lydia Pinkham made home remedy tonics from her home at 285 Western Avenue selling them door to door. Her alcohol laced tonics helped women and were so popular that she built a factory a couple doors from her home. The first woman in America to use her likeness in the marketing of her products, which are still sold today.

Maria Mitchell was an astronomer that lived in Lynn. Her observatory (post card) at the top was located in the back yard of her Green Street home. The image with the telescope is from her observatory in Nantucket where she discovered, "Miss Mitchell's Comet." The first female President of the American Academy of Sciences she has a crater on the moon named for her.

Mary Baker Eddy  founded the Christian Science Religion as a spiritual practical solution to health and moral issues. After a fall on Market Street that left her with a severe injury, she prayed on Red Rock to be healed and wrote her "Key to the Scriptures" in her Broad Street home.