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Focus on Salem, Massachusetts

The Bewitching Seaport

Founded 1626

Salem History, Salem Facts, Salem Photos, Salem Witch Trials, Puritan History,

Samuel McIntire, Salem Travel, Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter

Salem Research & Salem Art

Click here or on image above to take

Salem People Quiz

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Salem Photos

Salem Photo Gallery

Five Centuries of

Salem Architecture

What Happened

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

The Judges

Jonathan Corwin

John Hathorne

Bartholomew Gedney
William Stoughton

John Richards
Nathaniel Saltonstall
Samuel Sewall

Peter Sergeant

Wait Still Winthrop

Other Important People
Thomas Brattle
Cotton Mather

Governor Phips

Definitions

Spectral Evidence

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BOOKS

I've tried very hard to make this web site informative, fun and accurate. I've gone to great lengths to research the material presented here because we all know that much misinformation has been published about Salem.

If you like what you see here, I invite you to try one of my novels. They're ebooks, which can be read on Kindle, Nook, the iPad and Android devices. I've tried to apply the same standards to my books as I have to this web site.

Salem and The Reluctant Assassin are now available in paperback as well.

Kindle link; Salem, the Novel

Nook link: Salem, the Novel

Kindle link: The Second Assassination

Nook link: The President Has Been Shot

Kindle link: The Reluctant Assassin

Nook link: The Reluctant Assassin

Kindle link: Murder on Third Avenue

Nook link: Murder on Third Avenue

More on books

NEW for 2012

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.

2012 Travel Guide PDF

And check these links:

Maps (old and new) of Downtown Salem

Salem Restaurants

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COURAGE AND HEROISM

Don't miss Pioneer Village,

a recreation of Salem in 1630.

Salem Info

●Why and How Puritans Came

to Salem

●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

     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 including

   Baker's Island, Great Misery Island and Little

   Misery Island. The other seven include one on the

   Atlantic side of Marblehead and one off the coast

   of Swampscott.

   Hospitals: North Shore Medical Center consisting

   of the Salem Hospital, the Salem Childrens

   Hospital, and the Shaughnessy-Kaplan

   Rehabilitation Hospital.

   1 College: Salem State College

Downtown Salem has:

66 restaurants

   15 attractions

   11 Antique 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 Recreation

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.





    Salem Facts & Trivia

     See how many of these interesting

     facts you know. For more fun check

     you knowledge of Salem with

     the two quizzes below in this column.

   1. Salem Quiz: Test your

     Salem savvy.

   2. Old Salem Photos Quiz:

     Can you identify these

      old Salem photos?

    © Richard T. Scott