Massachusetts National Parks, National Monuments and More in Massachusetts

National Park Service

Adams National Historical Park
The park is located in Quincy, MA and encompasses 5 generations of the Adam's family. The site includes the birthplaces of John and John Quincy,Adams, the "Old House" which was home to 4 generations of Adam's, and the Stone Library which is home to more than 14,000 historic volumes and a collection of John Quincy Adam's books.

Boston African American National Historic Site
The site includes 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th century African-American community. The sites are linked by the 1.6 mile (2.5 km) Black Heritage Trail.

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
Boston Harbor Islands national park area includes 34 islands situated within the Greater Boston shoreline. The islands are rich in natural and cultural resources.

Boston National Historical Park
Boston National Historic Park includes Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House and Old North Church. In the city ol Charlestown, included are the Bunker Hill Monument and the Charlestown Navy Yard. Most of the historic sites are connected by the Freedom Trail, a 2.5 mile walking tour.

Cape Cod National Seashore
Cape Cod National Seashore comprises 43,604 acres of shoreline and upland landscape features, including a forty-mile long stretch of pristine sandy beach, dozens of clear, deep, freshwater kettle ponds, and upland scenes that depict evidence of how people have used the land. A variety of historic structures are within the boundary of the Seashore.

Essex National Heritage Area
The Area features historic seaports and New England town commons, industrial mills and pristine beaches, renowned museums and wildlife refuges, working farms and inviting natural trails.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nations foremost parkmaker.

John F Kennedy National Historic Site
John F. Kennedy National Historic Site preserves the birthplace in 1917 and boyhood home of the 35th President of the United States, and represents the social and political beginnings of one of the world's most prominent families.

Longfellow National Historic Site
For almost half a century (1837-1882) this was the home of one of the world's foremost poets, scholars and educators, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow House was a favorite gathering place for many prominent philosophers and artists including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe, and Charles Sumner.

Lowell National Historical Park
The history of America's Industrial Revolution is commemorated in Lowell, Massachusetts. The park includes textile mills, worker housing, 5.6 miles of canals, and 19th-century commercial buildings.

Minute Man National Historical Park
Created in 1959, Minute Man National Historical Park preserves and protects the significant historic sites, structures, properties and landscapes associated with the opening battles of the American Revolution. Today, Minute Man consists of over 900 acres of land which wind along original segments of the Battle Road for April 19, 1775.

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park commemorates the world's preeminent whaling port during the 19th century. A variety of cultural landscapes, historic buildings, museum collections, and archives preserve this history and recount the stories of a remarkable era.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site
The Site documents the development of the Atlantic triangular trade during the colonial period, the role of privateering during the Revolutionary War, and the international maritime trade, especially with the Far East..

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
This is the site of the first integrated ironworks in North America, 1646-1668. It includes the reconstructed blast furnace, forge, rolling mill, and a restored seventeenth century house.

Springfield Armory National Historic Site
After nearly two centuries of continuous production of rifles and muskets used by Americas armed forces in every war in the nations history, the armory closed its gates and fell silent. Reopened in 1978 as the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, the original 1840s arsenal houses the worlds largest collection of American military firearms.