Monday, April 10, 2023

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Massachusetts


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS
Orchard House, Concord


This early 18th-century house was the longtime home of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott. His daughter, Louisa May Alcott, set the novel Little Women here.