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.
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The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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| MASSACHUSETTS Peabody Museum of Salem
Now part of the Peabody Essex Museum, the former Peabody Museum's East India Marine Hall was built in the 1820s.
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