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The earliest section of the House of the Seven Gables was built in 1668 for Captain John Turner, a wealthy sea captain and merchant who was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1644. Turner partially funded the house's construction through his business of selling fish to slave plantations in the West Indies . [ 3 ]
Salem's historic courthouse and commissioner's building, as well as plans to add 110 units of housing in an 8-story building next to the Salem MBTA Commuter Rail station. Winn won a bid awarded by the Salem Redevelopment Authority to revitalize and incorporate Salem's historic courthouse buildings in the redevelopment project.
Essex County, of which Salem is a part, is the location of more than 450 properties and districts listed on the National Register, including 25 National Historic Landmarks. Salem itself is the location of 46 of these properties and districts, including 8 National Historic Landmarks. [2]
Winter Island is an island connected by a causeway to Salem Neck in Salem, Massachusetts. It is about 45 acres (18 ha) [2] in size, and is bounded by Smith Pool to the northwest, Cat Cove to the west, Salem Channel to the south and east, and Juniper Cove to the north. The island has about a dozen residences at the north end and one road, Winter ...
The approximately 55-acre (220,000 m 2) island was known as Bakers Island as early as the 1630s. Originally owned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was granted to the town of Salem in 1660. John Turner was the first private owner of the island. The island once housed a hotel, but it burned down in 1906. [1]
The Misery Islands (Great Misery Island and Little Misery Island) are an 87-acre (350,000 m 2) nature reserve established in 1935 in Salem Sound close to the Salem Harbor in Salem, Massachusetts It is managed by the Trustees of Reservations . [ 1 ]
Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts.Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and military barracks for Salem Harbor during a variety of periods, serving as a fortification from the Anglo-Dutch Wars through World War II.
Native Americans lived in northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas.The peninsula that would become Salem was known as Naumkeag (alternate spellings Naemkeck, [9] Nahumkek, [10] Neumkeage [11]) by the native people who lived there at the time of contact in the early 1600s.