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Essex National Heritage AreaWeaving - Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Danvers Massachusetts
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Essex National Heritage Area
Things To Do
 
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The last weekend in September explore outdoors, behind doors and everyway in-between! Find out about our next Trails & Sails
 
Rug from the Wenham Museum, MA

Rug from the Wenham Museum, Wenham MA

Experience the places that inspired the art!
Art exhibits and locations throughout the Essex National Heritage Area.
 
Pileated Woodpecker

Phil Brown

Pileated Woodpecker by Phil Brown

Best birding sites
The ENHA is a major bird migration area and a premiere place for birdwatching. Find the best spots on this list of birding sites compiled by local experts.
Map from self-guided walking tour of Olmsted District in Swampscott, Massachusetts  

Did You Know?
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted designed one of the country’s earliest “subdivisions” in Swampscott. Download a self-guided walking tour.
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Last Updated: December 19, 2006 at 17:56 EST