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    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

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW for 2013

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.

2013 Travel Guide PDF

 

And check these links:

Maps (old and new) of Downtown Salem

 

Salem Restaurants 2013

 

 

 

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 Athenĉum

    ●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's Island Twin Light Houses

    ●Oldest Pear Tree in America

    ●McIntire District - Architecture

    ●Salem's Connection to 10 Downing

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      Heeling on Salem Sound

 

       Ship in Storm - Painting

 

 

 

    Derby Wharf 1890 - Painting

 

 

     Salem Facts
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  Salem Travel

 Guidebook

 2013

Open the PDF file below for information about Salem

if you plan to visit soon.

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 Travel Guide PDF

 

   Map of Downtown Salem

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   See Famed   Dutch Masterpieces

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             PEM

Peabody Essex Museum

August 12, 2012 - September 1, 2013

     

 August 12, 2012 — September 1, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Toshio Shibata,

Constructed Landscapes

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October 6, 2013

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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