Salem Guidebook

The Bewitching Seaport

Founded 1626

Salem was named by the American Planning Association as one of America's 10 Best Neighborhoods for 2008.

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Salem Info

●Why and How Puritans Came

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●John Adams in Salem

●Roger Conant, Salem's Founder

●Birthplace of America's Military

●America's First Millionaire

●First Long-Distance Phone Call

●Nathaniel Hawthorne

●Leslie's Retreat

●John Winthrop

●London Gets the News about

Lexington & Concord

●Salem Witch Trials

●Roger Williams

●Old Glory (and Captain

William Driver)

●Richard More- Mayflower passenger

●Quakers in Salem

●Salem Athenæum

●Nathaniel Bowditch

●Elias Haskett Derby

●John Endecott

●Joseph Story

●Captain William Driver

●Puritan Names

●Caroline Plummer - Philanthropist

●Cleopatra's Barge

●Chestnut Street

●Samuel McIntire-Federalist Period

Architect

●Caroline Emmerton

●Baker Island Twin Light Houses

●Oldest Pear Tree in America

●McIntire District - Architecture

●Salem's Connection to 10 Downing Street

         Salem Facts
                & Trivia
             See how many of these

interesting facts you know.

For more fun check your knowledge

of Salem with the two quizzes in the

column below.

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Salem People Quiz

Witch Trial Overview

The Victims

Bridget Bishop
Rebecca Nurse
George Burroughs
Martha Carrier
Giles Corey
Martha Corey
Mary Eastey
Sarah Good
Elizabeth Howe
George Jacobs, Sr.
Susannah Martin
Alice Parker
Mary Parker
John Proctor
Ann Pudeator
Wilmott Redd
Margaret Scott
Samuel Wardwell
Sarah Wildes
John Willard

The Afflicted (the Accusers)

Ann Putnam
Abigail Williams
Mercy Lewis
Sarah Bibber
Elizabeth Booth
Sarah Churchill
Elizabeth Hubbard
Elizabeth Parris
Susannah Sheldon
Mary Warren
Mary Walcott

Johnathan Corwin

John Hathorne

Bartholomew Gedney

John Richards

Nathaniel Satonstall

Samuel Sewall

Peter Sergeant

William Stoughton

Wait Still Winthrop

Other Important People
Thomas Brattle
Cotton Mather

Governor Phips

Definitions

Spectral Evidence

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Five Centuries of

Salem Architecture

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Salem Photos

Salem Photo Gallery

Community Information



Salem population: 42,000

   Salem is the county seat of Essex County

   Land area: 8.10 sq. mi.

   Water area: 9.95 sq. mi.

   Shoreline: 18.5 miles

   Salem owns 10 islands in Salem Sound in-

   cluding Baker's Island, Great Misery Island

   and Little Misery Island. The other seven in-

   clude one on the Atlantic side of Marble-

   head and one off the coast of Swampscott.

   Hospitals: North Shore Medical Center con-

   sisting of the Salem Hospital, the Salem

   Childrens Hospital, and the Shaughnessy-

  Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital.

   Salem State University has over 10,000

    students

Downtown Salem has:

   66 restaurants

   15 attractions

   11 Antiques shops

   27 gift and souvenir shops

   14 food and beverage shops

   14 clothing and accessories stores

   10 book, hobby, and sporting stores

   18 witch shops

       Recreation:

2 golf courses: Olde Salem Greens (public)

       Kernwood Country Club (private)

31 parks, including the Salem Common,

Winter Island, McCabe Marina and Recre-

ation Area, Salem Willows Park, Forest River

Park and pool, Salem Woods, Collins Cove

Park, Gallows Hill Park, Mack Park, as well

as the operation of the Witch House

and the Haunted City program.

With Salem's parks the city manages

22 basketball courts, 20 playgrounds,

15 baseball diamonds,

12 tennis courts, 5 staffed beaches,

2 street-hockey courts and 1 skate park.





                                              © Richard T. Scott

NEW for 2010

Salem Travel

Guidebook

Open the PDF file below for information about Salem

if you plan to visit soon.

Feel free to print it so you

can take it with you.

2010 Travel Guide PDF

Includes sites, restaurants & dining, accommodations.

Map of Downtown Salem

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Salem Restaurants

Click on lobster

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Don't Miss

Pioneer Village

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The Salem Athenæum celebrates its Bicentennial this year. View photos of its Bicentennial Ball

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Visit the 2010 Salem Farmers' Market Open Thursdays from late June through the end of October.

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Free Downloadable

Novels about Salem

More

Information

about these novels

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Think of

SalemFocus as

your Salem Resource

1. Salem Quiz

Salem Savvy

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2. Old-Salem Photos

Quiz

Can you identify these old Salem photos?

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More Photography

Check out these photos

of the Salem Area

And these photos farther afield:

Grand Canyon

Russia-Central Asia

Current Salem Map

Salem Maps over the Centuries

Visit the

Peabody Essex

Museum

in Salem

The second-largest art museum

in New England and the oldest continually operating museum in the United States.

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Salem Drawings

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