Lynn Heritage State Park

Lynn Heritage State Park
Lynn Museum (formerly the Park Visitors Center)^[1]
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Location	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates	42°27′47″N 70°56′39″W / 42.46306°N 70.94417°W / 42.46306; -70.94417
Area	4.5 acres (1.8 ha)^[2]
Established	1986
Operator	Lynn Museum and Historical Society^[1]
Website	https://lynnmuseum.org/

Lynn Heritage State Park is^[4] a history-themed state park in downtown Lynn, Massachusetts, and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. It opened in 1986.^[5] The Lynn Museum and Historical Society (the tenant of the former Park Visitor Center building)^[3]^[1] now displays exhibits which highlight the city's industrial past, the tradition of shoemaking and its transition from a handicraft to mechanization, and the story of Elihu Thomson, an engineer and inventor instrumental in the founding of General Electric.^[6] The park offers guided tours and a self-guided walking tour and includes the nearby 4.5-acre (1.8 ha)^[2] Waterfront Park, located at Lynn Harbor.^[6]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "About / History". Lynn Museum. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Essex Coastal Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan" (PDF). Essex National Heritage Commission. March 2011. p. Appendix 5 page 2. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Lynn Heritage State Park Long-term Lease" (PDF). Commonwealth of Massachusetts / MEPA. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
^ "Alphabetical List of Massachusetts State Parks". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
^ "Annual Report: Fiscal Year 1986". Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Lynn Heritage State Park". MassParks. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
^ "Walking Map". MassParks: Lynn Heritage State Park. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Retrieved August 6, 2013.

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Lynn Heritage State Park Department of Conservation and Recreation

v t e Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Coastal reservations	Belle Isle Marsh Boston Harbor Islands Castle Island Dorchester Shores Fort Revere Lynn Shore Nahant Beach Nantasket Beach Quincy Shore Revere Beach Rumney Marsh Webb Memorial Weymouth Back River
River reservations	Alewife Brook Charles River Chestnut Hill Cutler Elm Bank Hemlock Gorge Mystic River Neponset River Pope John Paul II Squantum Point Park Upper Charles River
Woodland reservations	Beaver Brook Blue Hills Breakheart Hammond Pond Middlesex Fells Quincy Quarries Southwest Corridor Stony Brook Wilson Mountain
Heritage state parks	Lynn Roxbury
Parkways and roads	Alewife Brook Arborway Blue Hills Blue Hills Reservation Charles River Reservation Day Boulevard Fellsway Fellsway East Fellsway West Fenway Fresh Pond Furnace Brook Hamond Pond Hull Shore Drive Jamaicaway Lynn Fells Lynnway Memorial Drive Morrissey Boulevard Mystic Valley Nahant Beach Boulevard Nantasket Avenue Park Drive Quincy Shore Drive Revere Beach Riverway Soldiers Field Road Stony Brook Storrow Drive Truman VFW West Roxbury Winthrop Winthrop Shore Drive
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Federal

National Historical Parks	Adams Blackstone River Valley Boston Lowell Minute Man New Bedford Whaling
National Historic Sites	Boston African American Frederick Law Olmsted John Fitzgerald Kennedy Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters Salem Maritime Saugus Iron Works Springfield Armory
Other National Park Service units	Appalachian National Scenic Trail Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Cape Cod National Seashore
National Wildlife Refuges	Assabet River Great Meadows Mashpee Massasoit Monomoy Nantucket Nomans Land Oxbow Parker River Silvio O. Conte Thacher Island
Wild and Scenic Rivers	Assabet Concord Sudbury Taunton Westfield
Other protected areas	Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve West Hill Dam (USACE)

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Other	Appalachian Trail Ashuwillticook Rail Trail Cape Cod Rail Trail Fort Revere Lake Dennison Recreation Area Lower Neponset River Trail Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside Nashua River Rail Trail Norwottuck Branch Rail Trail Quabbin Reservoir Southwest Corridor Park Squantum Point Park Streeter Point Recreation Area Sudbury Reservoir Wachusett Reservoir Ware River Watershed Area

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