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Salem Maritime National Historic SiteA ship docked at Central Wharf in Salem, c. 1900. Collections of Salem Maritime NHS
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Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Audio Tour of Salem Maritime
 
the historic wharves of Salem Maritime jut into Salem Harbor
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The tour begins with the historic wharves at Salem Maritime National Historic Site.

The National Park Service is pleased to present this self-paced audio tour of Salem Maritime National Historic Site. The tour takes about an hour to complete, and consists of ten stops within the nine acre site. The stops are marked on the map, which is available here in pdf format. Please watch your step as you  walk around the site, and be careful crossing Derby Street!

These mp3 files work best on Windows Media Player for PC or Quicktime for Apple. To listen to this tour on your computer, simply click on each link. To download onto a portable player, from a PC right-click on a link and choose “save target as.” On an Apple, CTRL+click, and choose “Download file.”

 

Map of tour stops in pdf format -- use the free Adobe Reader to access (1.0 M)

Audio Tour Files in MP3 Format

Stop 1: Introduction and the Historic Wharves(5:18) 4.9 M

Stop 2: Friendship of Salem  (5:44) 5.3 M

Stop 3: Custom House (7:04) 6.6 M

Stop 4: Public Stores (2:54) 2.7 M

Stop 5: Scale House (2:45) 2.5 M

Stop 6: Narbonne House (2:59) 2.8 M

Stop 7: Hawkes House (3.39) 3.4 M

Stop 8: Derby House (5:42) 5.3 M

Stop 9: West India Goods Store (4:17) 4.0 M

Stop 10: St. Joseph Hall (3:38) 3.4 M

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The octant is a navigational tool based on the curve of one eighth of a circle. It measures angles for solar and celestial navigation.  

Did You Know?
In 1799, Salem native Nathaniel Bowditch revised John H. Moore's New Practical Navigator, the standard navigation manual of the 18th century. Bowditch discovered and corrected over 8,000 errors in Moore's manual! In 1802, Bowditch published the New American Practical Navigator.

Last Updated: August 29, 2008 at 16:26 EST