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Pedrick Store House, a three-story building, constructed around 1770, is a historic rigging and sail loft. It was relocated to the Salem Maritime National Historic Site from Marblehead, Massachusetts in 2007. [8] [9] Salem Custom House (1819) – This is the 13th Customs House in Salem; the first was built in 1649.
Salem State University [111] is the largest of the nine schools comprising the state university system in Massachusetts (the five University of Massachusetts campuses are a separate system), with 7,500 undergraduates and 2,500 graduate students; [112] its five campuses encompass 115 acres (0.47 km 2) and include 33 buildings. The Salem State ...
The SAILS Library Network, formerly Southeastern Automated Integrated Library Services, [3] is a nonprofit library consortium of 70 member libraries in 39 communities located throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. [1] SAILS was founded in 1995 to link the ABLE and SEAL library networks, which were later dissolved into SAILS in 2000. [3]
Adventure is a gaff rigged knockabout schooner.She was built in Essex, Massachusetts, USA, and launched in 1926 to work the Grand Banks fishing grounds out of Gloucester.She is one of only two surviving knockabout fishing schooners – ships designed without bowsprits [2] for the safety of her crew.
The cargo consisted of fifteen hogsheads spermaceti oil, 100 barrels tar, and the rigging and sails of the ship Charles, which was cast away near Nantucket - all of which will be saved with little damage. It is not known by the mate who the oil belongs to; it will be forwarded to Boston immediately. Your humble servant, Reuben Drew." [13] Rodney
The Friendship of Salem is a 171-foot replica of the Friendship, a 1797 East Indiaman.It was built in 2000 in the Scarano Brothers Shipyard in Albany, New York.The ship usually operates as a stationary museum ship during most of the year.
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Arrival of the Winthrop Colony, by William F. Halsall. The Winthrop Fleet was a group of 11 ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16 [1] funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630, during the first period of the Great Migration.