Discover Manchester-by-the-Sea’s history, art and community. Learn about the town’s historical maritime activity, furniture-making era, and Gilded Age summer resort at our historic headquarters, the 1823 Abigail Hooper Trask House. Come see our Salt Cod Fish Yard, original Singing Beach Bath House, and the exhibit “Manchester, The Revolution and The War at Sea,” which explores Manchester in the Revolutionary War at sea, land, and home.