The city of Salem welcomes more than one million tourists each year, but this autumn people visiting the city for its annual Haunted Happenings will not have access to certain historical sites amid the ongoing government shutdown.

The Salem Maritime National Historic Site run by the National Park Service (NPS) is closed until the government reopens. The site includes several historic buildings on the city’s waterfront that would normally be bustling with visitors.

The National Park Service’s Salem Armory Visitor Center was also forced to close, but reopened on October 6. The center provides information on sites throughout Salem and the Essex National Heritage Area, and shows two daily films.

Essex Heritage, a non-profit that partners with the NPS, credited the collaborative effort of se

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