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Welcome! to the breathtaking coastal communities of Essex NationalE N Heritage Area Essex County! This guide is designed to help you experience one of the most fascinating regions of , and H A each of the unique cities or towns that reflect a special aspect of our maritime heritage. What is the Essex National Heritage Area? If you come by car or bike, you will travel along the newly Covering 550 square miles just north of , the Essex National Heritage Area is a unique inhabited landscape containing marshlands, designated Essex Heritage Scenic Byway, selected for its beaches, rocky coastal areas, a major river valley, and quiet farms and historic, cultural, natural, and scenic character. The 64-mile woodlands that comprise Essex County, one of the oldest established counties in our nation. The national significance of the county and its route begins in Lynn and winds up the coast through Cape heritage resources led to its designation as a National Heritage Area in Ann, ending in Newburyport. 1996, creating an exceptional partnership between the and the citizens of this county. The guide lists each coastal community in alphabetical order, Amesbury • Andover • Beverly • Boxford• Danvers • Essex and indicates “must see” coastal attractions within their home Georgetown • Gloucester • Groveland • Hamilton • Haverhill • Ipswich • Lawrence city or town. Each site offers an exciting way to connect to Lynn • Lynnfield• Manchester • Marblehead • Merrimac • Methuen • Middleton Nahant • Newbury • Newburyport • North Andover • Peabody • Rockport • Rowley the maritime heritage of Boston’s North Shore. Whether you Salem • Salisbury • Saugus • Swampscott • Topsfield• Wenham • West Newbury have the time to navigate the entire route or just a portion, The Essex National Heritage Area is proud to be partners with the there are many sites to explore and enough to justify many National Park Service at the Salem Maritime and Saugus Iron Works repeat excursions. National Historic Sites.

Note: the route is not yet marked with scenic byway signs. Essex National Heritage Commission 221 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970 978.740.0444 E N www.EssexHeritage.org H   A www.nps.gov/nr/travel/maritime Funded, in part, by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Business Development/Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism. This brochure was made possible by a grant administered by the North of Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau. For regional planning, visit www.northofboston.org and www.escapesnorth.com Funded, in part, by TD Bank. Amesbury Salisbury Maritime Guide 6 Explo Newburyport 7 ring the Coast of Essex County, MA

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Visit Gloucester Fisherman’s Ipswich & Fisherman’s Wives 2 Rockport 8 Memorials The iconic fisherman Historic Seaport A statue faces seaward in tribute Salem to the nearly 10,000 Gloucester Manchester-by-the-Sea Newburyport Walk McIntire Historic District fisherman lost to the sea. A few yards A Classic Coastal New England Village Harborside Destination Architect Samuel McIntire designed 9 Essex away, stands the Fisherman’s Wives homes for prominent families in Salem, Memorial, dedicated to the fishermen’s View Manchester-by-the-Sea is visit Market Square in the heart of who had grown wealthy through Gloucester families. Open air; accessible year round. a picturesque town of clapboard houses downtown Newburyport, is one of the 4 shipping and trade to the West Indies wrapped around a snug harbor, which last seaport business districts remaining Stacy Boulevard south side and Far East. This historic district can be seen from town landing. from the golden days of New England’s includes 300+ homes, ranging from the Manchester 3 Visit Gloucester Adventure (1926) 19th century international trade. Visit The Trask House Museum 17th to 19th centuries. Most are privately This schooner is a two-masted wooden Handsome Federal style buildings house Beverly 1 (1832) home of successful merchant, owned and closed to the public. Self-guided sailing vessel commonly referred to as a unique retail shops and restaurants. Captain Richard Trask and wife, Abigail McIntire Walking Tour available at www. ‘knockabout’, once the mainstay of the Hooper Trask. The museum holds an State, Merrimac and Water Streets; nps.gov/sama. 12 Gloucester fishing fleet.Adventure is important maritime and decorative arts www.nps.gov/nr/travel/maritime undergoing restoration at 6 Rowe Square. Essex, Broad, Federal, Cambridge, and 11 collection. Open seasonally. 10 Open to the public depending on the state Visit Custom House Maritime Chestnut Streets in Salem. Salem 5 of her reconstruction. 10 Union Street; 978-526-7230; Museum (1835) built by the Federal visit National Park Service explore Cox www.manchesterbytheseahistorical.org government to collect taxes on imports 9 Marblehead 978-281-8079; www.schooner-adventure.org Regional Visitor Center was once the Reservation is headquarters brought into port by ship captains who Lynn Walk Singing Beach Famous for its Salem Armory. Learn more about Salem of the Essex County Greenbelt Sail Schooner Thomas E. Lannon traded around the world. Now operated Swampscott singing sand, the beach stretches along and Essex County at the NPS Regional Association, dedicated to conserving Schooners once dotted Gloucester by the Newburyport Maritime Society, the coast, providing a beautiful vista of Visitor Center. Watch the orientation the open space of Essex County. Harbor, carrying crews of fishermen Inc. The building was designed by Manchester-by-the-Sea. Open year round, film to experience all the region has to Surrounding the headquarters, are to the Grand Banks and beyond. This Robert Mills. Learn about Newburyport’s parking fee in season. offer.Open year round, free. paths with beautiful views of the Great replica was built in the Burnham maritime history, shipwrecks, and Marsh, the Essex River Estuary, and Hog boatyard in Essex. Experience sailing on a Beach Street the United States Coast Guard. Open 2 New Liberty Street; 978-740-1650; Island. Open year round; no fee, donations schooner firsthand.Seasonal sails, call ahead. seasonally; admission charge. www.nps.gov/sama appreciated. Sailor’s Paradise Rogers Street (Rte 127); 978-281-6634; Marblehead 25 Water Street; 978-462-8681; visit National Park Service Salem 82 Eastern Avenue; 978-768-7241; www.schooner.org Walk Old Town Once known as www.customhousemaritimemuseum.org Maritime National Historic Site www.ecga.org America’s yachting capital, Marblehead’s is the last complex of Colonial Era Rocky Neck Art Colony Cushing House Museum Amesbury Visit winding streets and historic homes fill visit wharves extant. Once one of the busiest A River City With a Boat building Past (1808) Gloucester America’s Oldest Seaport Home to many artists since the mid this coastal neighborhood, located along Home of Caleb Cushing, the US ports in America, and important center diplomat responsible for establishing trade VISIT Lowell’s Boat Shop (1793) a Visit Gloucester Maritime 19th century and said to be America’s the harbor. Stroll crooked byways and of commerce during the China Trade. with China. The museum is operated by working museum dedicated to preserving Heritage Center (GMHC) oldest working art colony. Fitz Henry view the harbor from the Landing, Fort Explore the Derby House, home of celebrates the Historical Society of Old Newbury the art and craft of small wooden boat Lane, Cecilia Beaux, Childe Hassam Sewall and Crocker Park. Most homes America’s first millionaire, the East India Gloucester’s maritime heritage, and serves and maintains a rare collection of Asian construction. Located on the banks of and many others have found inspiration closed to the public. Goods Store and experience Salem’s as a resource for families to learn about Rocky Neck Art Gallery and maritime artifacts. Open seasonally. the , it is the oldest in Smith’s . beautiful harbor. Open year round; free, fee history, industry, and ecology. The center open seasonally; call for hours. Some artist’s Washington, State and Front streets continuously operating boat shop in features an historic working marine 98 High Street; 978-462-2681; www. to enter buildings. studios open year round. Visit Jeremiah Lee America. It is cited as the birthplace of railway where wooden vessels are hauled newburyhist.com 193 Derby Street; 978-740-1650; (1768) Before the American Revolution, the legendary Gloucester fishing dory and and repaired, an outdoor aquarium, 53 Rocky Neck Ave.; 978-282-0917; Explore Parker River National www.nps.gov/sama operates as a living museum with boat children’s touch tank, exhibits, and www.rockyneckartcolony.org Jeremiah Lee was the most affluent man Wildlife Refuge occupies over 2,000 National Park Service building classes and river rowing available traditional wooden boat building. Open 2 in Massachusetts. This Georgian style Visit walk Village of Annisquam mansion was built for Lee, and remains acres on Plum Island, one of the most Friendship of Salem is a replica East to members. Open intermittently - call seasonally, admission charge. & Annisquam Lighthouse (1800) for hours. one of the best examples of architecture important wildlife refuges in the country. Indiamen tall ship owned and operated 23 Harbor Loop; 978-281-0470; A quiet, secluded village in Gloucester from the Pre-Revolution era. Beautiful, Experience beautiful views of ocean, by the NPS. The original was launched 459 Main Street; 978-834-0050; www.gloucestermaritimecenter.org stretching along the . colonial gardens surround the mansion. marsh, and dunes and learn about the in 1797 and made 17 voyages around www.lowellsboatshop.com The Annisquam Lighthouse (current diverse wildlife and birds that populate Visit Cape Pond Ice (1848) Open year round; admission charge. the world to the spice islands of Sumatra tower built in 1897) sits on Wigwam the area. Open year round; parking fee. and Archangel, Russia, but was captured has been icing down Gloucester’s catch Point. Open air, no public access to the 170 Washington Street; 781-631-1768; Beverly 6 Plum Island Turnpike; 978-465-5753; by the British during the . George Washington’s Naval Base ever for over 150 years! Take a tour of lighthouse. www.marbleheadmuseum.org the historic ice house, learn how ice was www.fws.gov/northeast/parkerriver Berthed at Derby Wharf. Open year view Beverly Harbor known for the Explore (1742) round for dockside tours; admission fee. harvested from local ponds, and discover Rte 127/Washington Street, Annisquam 6 Walk Newburyport Harbor armed schooner Hannah, a ship from how the industry has changed. Open An important point of defense since 3 view Eastern Point Light (1832) Light (Plum Island Light) (1788) 193 Derby Street; 978-740-1650; Marblehead, that was the first vessel of during season and weekends off-season; 1644, perched at the entrance to sits at the entrance to Gloucester Harbor. was built to aid navigation of the swift www.nps.gov/sama the US military. TheHannah sailed from admission charge. and later named Beverly Harbor on September 5, 1775. The current tower was erected in 1890 for Cheif Justice Samuel Sewall, the currents and shifting sands at the 10 Walk Derby Wharf Light Station 104 Commercial Street, Fort Point Wharf; and can be seen from Gloucester Harbor. citizens of Marblehead manned the fort mouth of the Merrimack River which is (1871) is one of only 5 square planned Walk Fish Flake Hill Historic 978-283-0174; www.capepondice.com Closed to the public. dangerous and difficult to sail. Located on District overlooking Beverly Harbor, it and provided protection for the USS lighthouses in the country. Located on Visit Museum 4 view Ten Pound Island Light Constitution as it eluded pursuit from the the northern end of Northern Blvd., Plum Derby Wharf in Salem. Lighthouse closed is the oldest neighborhood in Beverly, Home Island. Open occasionally on weekends. settled in 1626. Named for the “flakes” to the largest collection of paintings by (1821) current tower was built in 1881. British in 1814. Limited on-street parking. to the public. or tables that fish were dried upon. America’s foremost maritime painter Winslow Homer stayed on the island in The end of Front Street; www. www.newburyportharborlighthouse Visit The House of the Seven Historic neighborhood, private houses closed and magnificent luminist Fitz Henry the summer of 1880, painting Gloucester essexheritage.org/sites/fort_sewall.shtml plumis.org Gables (1668) also known as the to the public. Lane. The collection includes decorative Harbor. Island open to private boaters, no Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, is a seaside Visit Marblehead Museum & 7 walk Newburyport Harbor arts and furniture, exhibitions on the public access to interior of lighthouse, no home made famous by Nathaniel Cabot, Bartlett and Water Streets Historical Society Marblehead was Front & Rear Range Lights (1873) history of granite quarrying, fishing landing. Hawthorne’s novel, The House of the Seven once one of the largest towns in the were built to guide ships into the Visit John Cabot House (1781) and maritime heritage. Open most days; Gables. It is the largest surviving 17th colonies, due to the booming fishing Newburyport Harbor. View from Water owned by the Beverly Historical Society, admission charge. Ipswich century mansion in the US. Beautiful Home to Early Settlers, Seamen & Artists industry that flourished for more than Street in downtown Newburyport. and built for ship-owner and privateer gardens and a campus of historic 27 Pleasant Street; 978-283-0455; 200 years. Learn more about the town’s Closed to the public. John Cabot, an 18th century leader in Visit Heard House Museum structures includes the birthplace of www.capeannmuseum.org history and its important role in the maritime trade and banking. The house (1800) built by John Heard and funded Charming Seaside Town Nathaniel Hawthorne. Open year round; Visit Sargent House (1782) was American Revolution and Civil War. Rockport museum features maritime, military and through the fortune he amassed as a View Motif #1 admission charge. transportation exhibits, a research library the home of sea merchants, patriots successful merchant. Currently home Open year round. Although the original building was lost in the Blizzard of 1978, 115 Derby Street; 978-744-0991; with 18th and 19th century manuscripts and community leaders for over 100 to the Ipswich Historical Society. In 170 Washington Street; 781-631-1768; this former fishing shack is said to be the www.7gables.org and genealogical materials. Open most years. This fine example of Georgian addition to the fine architecture and www.marbleheadmuseum.org most painted building in the country. days in season; admission charge. architecture was built for Judith Sargent period furnishings, the collection Visit Drive Marblehead Neck is a Exterior only. Murray, philosopher, writer and early includes the largest portfolio of painter (PEM) (1799) Founded by ships’ 117 Cabot Street; 978-922-1186; peninsula that forms the east side of advocate of women’s equality. The Arthur Wesley Dow. Open year round, Bradley Wharf masters to house their ‘curiosities’ from www.beverlyhistory.org Marblehead Harbor. The 3.5 mile house contains some original works by admission charge. voyages around the world, the PEM is circular drive offers beautiful views of 8 view Straightsmouth Island View Gold Coast “Cottages” along American artist, John Singer Sargent, the oldest continuously operated museum 54 South Main Street; 978-356-2811; Marblehead Harbor and the Atlantic Light (1835) on Straightsmouth Island, coastal Route 127. Behind the tall walls who loved the house and Gloucester. in the nation. The PEM is internationally www.ipswichmuseum.org Ocean. Marblehead Light and Hovey the current brick tower was erected in 1896. and plantings, catch glimpses of the large Open seasonally, admission charged. renowned for its collections of art and Park are on the northern tip. Visible from the end of Bearksin Neck in summer once occupied by Explore , culture. Open year round; admission fee. 49 Middle Street; 978-281-2432; Rockport. Lighthouse closed to the public. the elite, including President Taft whose www.sargenthouse.org & Castle Hill where Kimball and Follett Streets summer “White House” was located at white sands stretch for miles forming one 9 Explore ’s East India Square; 978-745-9500; 5 walk Marblehead Light (1835) www.pem.org what is now the seaside Lynch Park in Explore Park (1623) of the most beautiful beaches in New (1771)The current twin lighthouses is a cast iron lighthouse (built in 1896), 1909-10. Three years after the Pilgrims landed at England. There are 5.5 miles of trails have been guiding sailors since 1861, and 11 VIEW Light Station Plymouth, the Dorchester Company the only one of its kind still standing in 1 walk Beverly’s Hospital Point through the dunes of the wildlife refuge. are the only twin lighthouses operating in (1791) The current tower was built in of England tried to establish a year- Atop Castle Hill sits the Great House, New England. View from Marblehead Light Station (1872) named for a the United States. The island can be can 1820. View from Beverly Harbor. Closed round fishing settlement on this spot. once the summer mansion of industrialist Neck and Harbor. Lighthouse closed to the smallpox hospital built on the site, views of be seen from Rockport and Gloucester. to the public, private island. Unsuccessful, the settlers moved south Richard T. Crane, Jr. Enjoy breathtaking public. the lighthouse can be seen from Bayview Visited during July & August via kayak to Salem. This park offers beautiful views views of the Ipswich and Essex River 12 walk Light (Fort Avenue in Beverly and Salem Willows in Tidal Farmlands or Thacher Island guided boat launch Pickering Light) (1871) of Gloucester Harbor, two swimming Estuary. Beach is open year round; parking fee. Newbury (reservations required). Built adjacent Salem. Lighthouse closed to the public. beaches and recreational facilities. Open Explore Spencer-Peirce-Little to the site of the former in Argilla Road; 978-356-4354; year round; parking fee in season. Farm (1690) Step back in time and 978-546-7697; www.thacherisland.org Winter Island Park. Lighthouse closed to www.thetrustees.org ShipbuildingEssex Center for More Than 300 Years experience colonial life. The house is the public, park open year round, parking Hough Street; 978-281-8865; Expansive, Rolling Marshland fee in summer. Where the City Meets the Sea a rare example of colonial stone and Rowley Visit Essex Historical Society and www.seecapeann.com Lynn brick architecture and former home of View The Great Marsh is the largest 50 Winter Island Road Shipbuilding Museum Discover the Visit Gloucester City Hall (1870) Walk Lynn Shore and Nahant privateers and merchants. The fields salt marsh in New England, over 20,000 extraordinary story of a small village that Built in the style of Independence Hall Beach Reservation Four miles of are still farmed, and the property offers acres that include, barrier beach, tidal river, Swampscott Seaside Retreat built more two-masted wooden fishing in Philadelphia, the building displays uninterrupted waterfront stretch along beautiful views of Plum Island . estuary, mudflat and upland islands extend- view 1896 Fish House schooners than any other place in the the names of 4,000 the fishermen who the coast of Nahant and Lynn where Open seasonally, admission charge. ing from Gloucester to Salisbury, MA. The only world. Learn about the methods and tools lost their lives to the sea. Also on display visitors can walk the promenade and municipal fish house on the East Coast, the employed in ship construction and how is one of the finest collections of WPA experience Lynn Harbor and Nahant Bay 5 Little’s Lane; 978-462-2634; www.essexheritage.org/visiting/ Fish House was erected to consolidate the the tradition is carried on today.Open murals, depicting important scenes in the firsthand.Open year round; park fee and www.historicnewengland.org placestovisit/itineraries/greatmarsh many fishing shacks along the shore that seasonally and weekends; admission charge. city’s history. Open regular business hours; meters. obscured the view. Today, the Fish House is metered parking. also home to the Swampscott Yacht Club. 66 Main Street; 978-768-7541; Lynnway; 781-485-2803; www.mass.gov/ www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org 9 Dale Avenue; 978-281-9720; dcr/parks/metroboston/ 425 Humphrey Street; www.swamp- www.ci.gloucester.ma.us lynnshores.htm scottyachtclub.org/ facilities.htm