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Another record year for October 2024 [250] when Salem had over a 1 million tourists during October for its month-long Haunted Happenings festival. Over one million people visited the spooky city during October, an 8.6% increase from 2023. [251] According to city officials, Salem welcomed 87,351 visitors on the 31st of October 2024, a new record ...
Salem Harbor Station was a 60-year-old power plant that was owned by Dominion of Virginia. With the approval of ISO New England, the 60-year-old coal and oil-fired plant closed for good in June 2014. The City of Salem was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Clean Energy Center prior to the closure of the plant.
Salem Harbor Station is a 60-year-old coal- and oil-burning power plant that is owned by Dominion of Virginia and have said with the approval of ISO New England, the 60-year-old coal and oil-fired plant will close for good in June 2014. [9]
[60] An additional 116 settlers were admitted to the general court as freemen in 1631, but most of the governing and judicial power remained with the council of assistants. [61] They also enacted a law specifying that only those men who "are members of some of the churches" in the colony were eligible to become freemen and gain the vote. [59]
Salem Harbor Power Station is a natural gas-fired power plant located in Salem, Massachusetts. [1] It replaced an outdated coal-fired plant on the same site and went online in May 2018. [2] The facility sits on land reclaimed during the 1800s, and was previously the site of a wharf and coal depository. Construction on the original plant began ...
The Bridge Street Neck Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in Salem, Massachusetts.It encompasses most of a peninsula of land northeast of downtown Salem, on the route connecting Salem to Beverly, which has been the scene of residential, commercial, and industrial development since the early settlement of Salem in the 1630s.
Increase Mather (/ ˈ m æ ð ər /; June 21, 1639 Old Style [1] – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701). [2] He was influential in the administration of the colony during a time that coincided with the notorious Salem ...
In recent years, the Commonwealth has lost population as high housing costs have driven many away from Massachusetts. The Boston area is the third most expensive housing market in the country. Over the last several years there has been a net outflow of about 19,000 people from the Commonwealth. [citation needed] [needs update]