Essex National Heritage Area

It is overseen by the Essex National Heritage Commission (ENHC), a non-profit organization based in Salem, Massachusetts.[1] The commission promotes the cultural heritage with public and private partnerships and with the National Park Service by developing programs that enhance, preserve and encourage regional awareness of the area's unique historic, cultural and natural resources.The heritage area covers all of Essex County, including 34 cities and towns, 9,968 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 26 National Historic Landmarks, 9 state parks, and 2 National Park Service units.[1] Along with 2.7 million annual visitors, roughly 743,159 residents live in the region, which is in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.[1] The heritage area includes the Merrimack Valley cities of Lawrence, Haverhill, and Amesbury, Massachusetts, which were important industrial and trade centers in the 18th and 19th centuries and the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in North America (along with nearby Lowell, Massachusetts), as well as the coastal cities of Newburyport, Gloucester, Marblehead and Salem, Massachusetts, also important locations in early American trade and history.
The Friendship of Salem sails as an ambassador for the Essex National Heritage Area and is part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site .
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