page_title: Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts
section_title: 21st century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts / Timeline / 21st century
caption_attribution_description: English: The tall ship Friendship, a replica of an 18th century East Indiaman that was captured by the British in 1812. She is docked in Salem Harbor off Derby Street, across from the Customs House.
context_page_description: This is a timeline of the history of the city of Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
context_section_description: 2000
  Friendship of Salem is a 171-foot replica of a 1797 East Indiaman, built in the Scarano Brothers Shipyard in Albany, New York, in 2000. The ship usually functions as a stationary museum during most of the year, however the ship is a fully functioning United States Coast Guard certified vessel capable of passenger and crew voyages, and will set sail during various times of the year. The first American National Historic Site is run by the   National Park Service at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site where the Friendship of Salem is docked.
  2001
  Pickering Wharf Marina opens as a full-service marina in Salem Harbor.
  Salem Water Taxi is founded in Salem Harbor.
  2002
  Bridge Street Neck Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
  2003
  The National Park Service acquired the Pedrick Store House from the  town of Marblehead, this 1770 warehouse was built in Marblehead, just across the harbor from Salem, in 1770 by Thomas Pedrick, a successful member of the merchant community in pre-Revolutionary War Marblehead. 
  The original Fame was a fast Chebacco fishing schooner that was reborn as a privateer when war broke out in the summer of 1812. She was arguably the first American privateer to bring home a prize, and she made 20 more captures before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in 1814. The new Fame is a full-scale replica of this famous schooner. Framed and planked of white oak and trunnel-fastened in the traditional manner, the replica of Fame was launched in 2003. She is now based at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site at Pickering Wharf Marina, where she takes the paying public for cruises on historic Salem Sound.
  Pioneer Village underwent a major renovation from  2003 until Spring 2008 when Gordon College (Massachusetts) took over its management along with Old Town Hall .
  The Peabody Essex Museum completed a massive $100 million renovation and expansion resulting in the opening a new wing designed by Moshe Safdie, more than doubling the gallery space to 250,000 square feet (23,000 m²); this allowed the display of many items from its extensive holdings, which had previously been unknown to the public due to lack of capability to show them. At this time, the museum also opened to the public the Yin Yu Tang House, an early 19th-century Chinese house from Anhui Province that had been removed from its original village and reconstructed in Salem.
  Yin Yu Tang House  Yin Yu Tang, was built around 1800 in China. Over 200 years after construction the Yin Yu Tang House was disassembled in China, shipped to America and then reassembled in 2003 inside the Peabody Essex Museum.
  2005
  A homeless shelter opens in downtown Salem.   as a result of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal, a church is sold off and turned into a homeless shelter.The Archdiocese of Boston closed the parish in 2003, according to Historic Salem Inc.
  "In 2005, the Salem Mission bought the closed St. Mary's Italian Church on Margin Street from the Archdiocese of Boston,"
  2006
  Kimberley Driscoll becomes mayor.
  The Salem Ferry a 92-foot (28 m) high-speed catamaran that travels from Salem to Boston in 50 minutes from May to October and had its maiden voyage on June 22, 2006.
  Waterfront redevelopment – The first step in the redevelopment was in 2006, when the State of Massachusetts gave Salem $1,000,000. The bulk of the money – $750,000 – was earmarked for acquisition of the Blaney Street landing, the private, 2-acre (8,100 m²) site off Derby Street used by the ferry. Another $200,000 was approved for the design of the new Salem wharf, a large pier planned for the landing, which officials said could be used by small cruise ships, commercial vessels and fishing boats.
  2007
  Salem Arts Association incorporated.
  Doyle Sailmakers expanded into a new 31,000 square foot loft in Salem, Massachusetts
  The City of Salem launched the Haunted Passport program which offers visitors discounts and benefits from local tourist attractions and retailers from October to April.
  On March 29, 2007, the House of the Seven Gables Historic Di
caption: Friendship of Salem at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
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