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The Essex Heritage office - 10 Federal Street, Suite 12, Salem MA 01970

Office (978) 740-0444 Visitor Center (978) 224-2036 Fax: 978-744-6473

www.EssexHeritage.org/

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Essex Heritage and the Essex National Heritage Area
A non-profit organization that manages the Essex National Heritage Area
and promotes recreation, education, conservation and interpretation projects
on Boston’s North Shore and the Lower Merrimack River Valley.
The Essex National Heritage Area is comprised of the 34 cities and towns of Essex County, MA.

Essex Heritage rallies our community around saving the unique character of Essex County:
the thousands of historic, cultural, and natural places that were crucial in shaping our nation;
the places that led to this region's designation as a National Heritage Area by an
act of Congress in 1996; the places that make Essex County like nowhere else.

We are the only organization that connects the people
who live in the 34 cities and towns within our county.
Amesbury, Andover, Beverly, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester,
Groveland, Hamilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynnfield,
Manchester by the Sea, Marblehead, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleton, Nahant,
Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, Peabody, Rockport, Rowley, Salem,
Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury

Our job is to get residents to actively support over 10,000 historic places that make this
area a great place to live. We do this by offering inspiring events like Trails & Sails, where
you can have 150 unique experiences in 6 days, and by developing programs and partnerships
that support the hundreds of heritage organizations and sites within the Heritage Area.

We host 2.7 million visitors annually from 30 countries, and are home to
738,000 residents, whose quality of life is our first order of business.

500 square miles of northeastern Massachusetts
34 cities and towns
9,968 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places
26 National Historic Landmarks
86 historical sites and museums open to the public
400 farms
9 State Parks
2 National Park Service units

What’s most exciting about our organization is that we’re forward thinking.
We focus on engaging folks at every age, enabling them to experience
all the wonderful places that surround us here because nowhere else…
Can you see the lighthouse whose keeper saved the USS Constitution?
Can you wander through the country’s oldest working farm?
Can you drive by so many 17th century homes on your way to work?
Because nowhere else… would we rather live.