The National Park Service Salem Visitor Center is a good place to start a tour of Salem, Massachusetts. The visitor center is 2 New Liberty Street. This is a central location, many attractions Salem, and they are in a relaxed stroll along the Heritage Trail.
Around the corner of Essex Street, Peabody Essex Museum. The museum was founded in 1799 as the Salem East India Society. The Museum of the outstanding collections include more than 1,000,000 objectsFeedback:
• The best maritime art in the United States
• Art and Culture in North America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands
• Three centuries of American life during historical times Houses
• The Phillips Library houses the original court documents of the Salem Witch Trials
• Ongoing and special exhibitions
There is a museum shop and a cafe, and it is open all year:
• Monday to Sunday: 10:00 to 5:00 pm Clock
• ClosedThanksgiving, Christmas and New Year
Admission cost (with effect from March 2008)
• Adults: $ 13
• Seniors $ 11
• Students $ 9 youth (16 years and younger)
• Salem, Massachusetts residents are admitted free.
• Members are admitted free to all pages
The Phillips Library contains local historical resources such as:
• genealogical information
• Early Photographs
• Local memorabilia
• andDocuments
All of the above date back to Salem's founding.
Tours are also a number of outstanding historical museum of the residences in the vicinity.
As you continue west along the Essex Street walking mall, there are many shops and restaurants and see the Witch History Museum. Derby square on the left side and is Salem's Old Town Hall, opened in 1816.
Stores and Web sites in this area include:
• Cornerstone Books, 45 Lafayette Street, Salem,Massachusetts 978-744-1831
• New England Pirate Museum, 274 Derby Street, Phone 978-741-2800 of
• Salem Witch Museum, 19 ½ Washington Square North Salem, Massachusetts, 978-744-1692, where you have a large selection of books, pamphlets, videos and CD-ROMs can be found on the theme of the 1692 witch trials of Salem, New England cemeteries Tarot, Salem History
• Henry Derby Boutique, 192 Essex Street, telephone 978-745-1080
• The Trolley Depot, 191 EssexStreet, 978-745-3003
• Witch Dungeon Museum, Lynde Street 16, phone 978-741-3570
• Henry Derby Flowers: custom windows, doors and cottage gardens
Some popular places to eat:
• Caffe Graziani, 133 Washington Street, Salem, Mass., telephone 978-741-4282: homemade Italian specialties, serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, cappuccino or espresso and desserts. The boss speaks four languages. Make available. Dinner is servedFriday and Saturday evenings.
• Captain's Waterfront Grill & Club, 94 Wharf Street, Pckering Wharf, Salem, Mass., telephone 978-741-0555. Dine at the Waterfront, charcoal-grilled seafood and steaks.
• Grapevine Restaurant, 26 Congress Street, telephone 978-745-9335, valued years of Zagat's restaurant guide as one of the top 40 restaurants in the Boston area.
• Lyceum Bar and Grill, 43 Church Street, Salem, Mass., telephone 978-745-7665. Thisis the place where Alexander Graham Bell made the first long-distance call, and where today a global cuisine is prepared in a relaxed and stylish restaurant.
• at the Hawthorne Inn on the Common Salem, Massachusetts, offers, phone 978-744-4080 fireplace and a light lunch fare or lobster dinner and entertainment in a pub atmosphere.
Coffee Shops:
• Cornerstone Books, 45 Lafayette Street, serves coffee and pastries in the cafeteria, which is part of a fullService bookstore. They have a working fireplace and host a (free) Wi-Fi hotspot.
What could be the most exciting experience in Salem, Massachusetts? Probably, the Witch Dungeon Museum. " In this museum you will feel as if you were in Salem Village in 1692. The visit guarantees you:
• A unique educational experience with chills
• The performance of a celebrated witch trials of 1692 the adjusted historical records
• ProfessionalActresses in repertory reenact the fascinating scene
In 1692 something very strange and unusual place. Here are some of the events of the year and of which you see be traced to the Witch Dungeon Museum
• Revered Parris' daughter Betty and niece Abigail began acting very strange
• The Minister asked Dr. Griggs, to examine the girls. Dr. Griggs found nothing wrong with them.
• Abigail and Betty continued their strange behavior andThen other children started to copy them.
• Some children barking like a dog
• Other children would throw himself on the floor and adjusts
• A child trying to crawl into the fireplace
• Another child, "said the devil was after her
• The adults began to believe that the devil had come to her small village
• The children started to accuse some of the people in the village, witches, had spells cast on them.
• TheVillagers gathered in the meeting house to find and punish the people who had cast spells on the children.
• The children accused their neighbors as witches.
• Fear spread the village
• You really think the devil to Salem, Massachusetts to come
• The witch trials lasted for thirteen months
• One hundred and fifty-six people were indicted.
• Nineteen of these hanged.
• A man was pressed toDeath.
• Two dogs were hanged, because the children, said the dogs gave them the "evil eye."
The only structure still in Salem, Massachusetts, with direct links to the 1692 Salem witch trials is the Corwin House / Witch House on 310 Essex Street.
The Witch House tours blend information about lifestyles of the 17th Century furniture and architecture, the fascinating insights into the events in 1692.
As a visitor is, you gain a deeper understanding of lifeInvolved in the witch trials. This house is open daily from 1 May - early November, 10:00 am to 5:00 Clock, you must call in October in the long hours. Tours are by appointment only during the season are available. There is an enrollment fee and reduced prices for groups, seniors, children and school groups. It is ideal for parking her motor coach tours and buses.
Source: Salem, Massachusetts City Guide
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