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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M38_the-town-house_Salem-MA.html
Three rods west of this spot
stood, from 1718 until 1785,
The Town House.
Here Governor Burnet convened
The General Court in 1728 and 1729,
a Town Meeting held here in 1765
protested against The Stamp Act,
and another in 1769,
denounce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M37_the-witch-gaol_Salem-MA.html
Here stood the Salem gaol
built in 1684, used until 1813
razed in 1957
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During the witchcraft
persecution of 1692, many
of the accused were
imprisoned here. One of
them, the aged Giles
Cory (b. 1611), was press…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M36_the-salem-witch-trials-memorial_Salem-MA.html
In 1692, nearly two hundred people in the Salem area were accused of witchcraft, then considered a crime. Twenty of the accused were tried and executed - victims of fear, superstition, and a court system that failed to protect them.
This memori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M1Z_peabody-museum-of-salem_Salem-MA.html
Has been designated a
Registered National
Historic Landmark
under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating or illustrating the
history of the United States
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M1Y_the-first-meeting-house-erected-in-salem_Salem-MA.html
Here stood from 1634 until 1673
The First Meeting House
erected in Salem.
No structure was built earlier
for congregational worship
by a church formed in America.
It was occupied
for secular as well as religious uses.
In it preached, in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16HL_privateer-warehouse_Salem-MA.html
Elias Hasket Derby, Salem's prosperous ship-owner, and his bride Elizabeth Crowinshield began their married life in the brick house behind you in 1762. Seven children later, in 1780, Derby began building a much larger structure on the site in fron…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16HI_derby-house_Salem-MA.html
The Derby House is the oldest brick house still standing in Salem, and one of the finest examples of Georgian colonial architecture in the United States. Merchant and fleet-owner Richard Derby built the house in 1762 as a wedding present for his s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16HF_narbonne-house_Salem-MA.html
Salem Maritime National Historic Site-The modest house in front of you is one of the oldest in Salem. Built here in 1672, the Narbonne House is also one of America's few surviving middle-class homes of the 1600s. The builder and first owner was a"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16HD_wharves-in-the-late-1800s_Salem-MA.html
Not until the later 1800s did we have photographs of sailing vessels berthed along wharves here, but by then we had declined as a world port. The shallow harbor could not accommodate the clipper ships and larger vessels that dominated the seas aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16HB_central-wharf_Salem-MA.html
The grassy strip of land extending into the harbor in front of you was once a busy commercial wharf. In the late 1700's and early 1800s, trade goods from around the world were loaded, unloaded and stored here.Build in 1784, Central Wharf was purch…