They say the Devil once set foot on the North Green of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and left his trace in a granite outcropping in front of where the First Church (Congregational United Church of Christ) in Ipswich now stands. Or as the Works Progress Administration’s 1937 “Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People” reports: “Deep in the rock beside the present Congregational [church] building (1847) is a cloven hoofprint left, legend says, by the Devil.”
Photos by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research.
The “footprint” in front of the First Church (Congregational United Church of Christ) in Ipswich, built in 1971, (left) and the United Methodist Church (right).