Massachusetts Cultural Resources

Historic areas, in context.

The Massachusetts Historical Commission maintains MACRIS, an inventory of historic resources across the Commonwealth. This focused map displays public inventory areas and districts alongside the municipal inventory-status layer.

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areas and districts
municipal records
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MHC inventory areas and town status Loading statewide GeoJSON…
Inventory area Town status

What the source contains

Public records, mapped as points and areas

MassGIS publishes point locations for buildings, burial grounds, structures, and objects; polygons for historic areas and districts; and a town layer indicating survey digitization status. This demonstration intentionally displays only the area/district and town layers. Archaeological-resource information is excluded from the public datalayers.