Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Essex

Name: Essex Shipbuilding Museum
Address: 66 Main St, Essex, 01929-1343, United States
Telephone: +1 978-768-7541

#1 among attractions in Essex

Top attraction, Specialty museum, Museum, Maritime museum

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Located in the heart of Essex, Massachusetts, the Essex Historical Society & Shipbuilding Museum is sandwiched between an acre of land set aside in 1668, “for a yard to build vessels and employing workmen for this end” and practicing commercial wooden shipyard, owned and operated by Harold A. Burnham. The museum is integral to the town's historic character, scenic vista and central river basin. Essex-built schooners were famous world-wide as sound and able fishing vessels. Essex has a history that is unique among old American villages. A small village, no larger than it is now, on a small tidewater river, built a prodigious number of wooden boats and ships, some four thousand in number, and in the process, developed a reputation for some of the finest fishing schooners in the world. ()

Coordinates: 42°37'56"N, 70°46'48"W

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66 Main StEssexEssex 01929-1343 United States

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+1 978-768-7541

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Day trips

Essex Shipbuilding Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Castle Hill, Singing Beach, Essex River Cruises and Charters, Ipswich Range Lights.

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