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 Ralph Waldo Emerson Home, Concord
This house was purchased by writer, poet, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1835. It was where he wrote all of his major works, and was a major meeting point for Transcendentalists.
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