• Salem Maritime National Historic Site

    Salem Maritime

    National Historic Site Massachusetts

Research

The reason we know so much about the people, places, stories, and collections associated with Salem Maritime is through the research of dozens of professional historians, archaeologists, archivists, and curators, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of history, archaeology, art history, American studies, and museum studies, among other fields. In these pages we present scholarly research related to Salem Maritime.

Pickled Fish and Salted Provisions: an occasional newsletter.

National Park Service reports [Coming soon!]

Did You Know?

black and white compass rose from a recreated painted floorcloth in the Derby House at Salem Maritime NHS

The largest customs duty bill collected at the Port of Salem was $140,761 when the ship Sumatra returned from Canton in 1831.