Salem Massachusetts would become one of the most significant seaports trading commodities in early American history.
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35 Facts About Salem Massachusetts
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The peninsula that would become Salem Massachusetts was known as Naumkeag by the native people who lived there at the time of contact in the early 1600s.
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Salem Massachusetts was active in the affairs of the town throughout his life.
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Salem Massachusetts's harbor was defended by Fort Miller in Marblehead from 1632 to 1865, and by Fort Pickering on Winter Island from 1643 to 1865.
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Salem is significant in legal history as the site of the Dorothy Talbye Trial, where a mentally ill woman was hanged for murdering her daughter because Massachusetts made no distinction at the time between insanity and criminal behavior.
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Salem Massachusetts led troops to victory in King Philip's War, served as a magistrate on the highest court, and was chosen as the first speaker of the House of Deputies.
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Salem Massachusetts was a zealous advocate of the personal rights of freemen against royal emissaries and agents.
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Salem Massachusetts's son Judge John Hathorne came to prominence in the late 17th century when witchcraft was a serious felony.
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Salem Massachusetts ships visited Africa in the slave trade—Zanzibar in particular.
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Salem Massachusetts had established trade relations with merchants in distant lands, which were a source of livelihood and prosperity for many.
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Salem Massachusetts worked in the U S Custom House across the street from the port near Pickering Wharf, his setting for the beginning of The Scarlet Letter.
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In October 1944, Air Station Salem Massachusetts was designated as the first Air-Sea Rescue station on the eastern seaboard.
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Salem Massachusetts Harbor was deep enough to host a seadrome with three sea lanes, offering a variety of take-off headings irrespective of wind direction unless there was a strong steady wind from the east.
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In 2011, the City of Salem Massachusetts completed plans for the 30-acre Winter Island Park and squared off against residents who are against bringing two power-generating windmills to the tip of Winter Island.
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South Salem Massachusetts is south of the South River, lying mostly along the banks of Salem Massachusetts Harbor southward.
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Salem Massachusetts is bordered by Beverly to the north, Danvers to the northwest, Peabody to the west, Lynn to the south, Swampscott to the southeast, and Marblehead to the southeast.
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City of Salem Massachusetts launched a microtransit network called the Salem Massachusetts Skipper in December 2020.
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The Salem Massachusetts Ferry is named after Nathaniel Bowditch, who was from Salem Massachusetts and wrote the American Practical Navigator.
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The City of Salem Massachusetts has approved a seasonal restaurant with a liquor license at The Salem Massachusetts Ferry dock to be operated by Boston Harbor Cruises.
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Salem Massachusetts has eight stations where drivers can charge their electric cars.
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North Shore Medical Center is located in Salem and is the second largest community hospital system in Massachusetts.
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Salem Massachusetts NSMC is a general medical and surgical hospital, which has 395 beds.
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Captain John Bertram lived in Salem Massachusetts and is the founder of Salem Massachusetts Hospital, which was later renamed North Shore Medical Center .
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City of Salem Massachusetts's plans call for a total build-out of the current Blaney Street pier, known as the Salem Massachusetts Wharf project.
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The City of Salem Massachusetts reached out to state and federal officials to ask for their cooperation and assistance in planning for the future and to provide money, in an effort to clean up the 62-acre site.
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The City of Salem Massachusetts required Footprint to demolish the existing plant and stacks.
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Salem Massachusetts is represented in the state legislature by officials elected from the following districts:.
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Salem Massachusetts once had a very strong Roman Catholic school system.
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In 2000, the replica tall ship Friendship of Salem Massachusetts was finished and sailed to Salem Massachusetts Harbor, where she sits today.
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The Friendship of Salem Massachusetts is a reconstruction of a 171-foot three-masted East Indiaman trading ship, originally built in 1797, which traveled the world over a dozen times and returned to Salem Massachusetts after each voyage with goods from all over the world.
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Bowditch, who was born in Salem Massachusetts and had a home on North Street, is considered the founder of modern maritime navigation.
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Salem Massachusetts's was arguably the first American privateer to bring home a prize, and she made 20 more captures before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in 1814.
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Salem Massachusetts's is based at Salem's Pickering Wharf Marina, where she takes the paying public for cruises on Salem Sound.
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Salem Massachusetts Harborwalk opened in July 2010 to celebrate the rebirth of the Salem Massachusetts waterfront as a source of recreation for visitors as well as the local community.
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