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Old Salem is a historic district of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, which was originally settled by the Moravian community in 1766. [3] It features a living-history museum which interprets the restored Moravian community. The non-profit organization began its work in 1950, although some private residents had restored buildings ...
First Church in Salem, Unitarian Universalist, founded in 1629. John Hodges House (1788) Built for the founder of the Salem East India Marine Society who founded what is now the Peabody Essex Museum. Derby House (1762) First brick house built in Salem after another man had died of a cold who lived in a brick home. Home of America's first ...
Salem College is located at the heart of Old Salem, a restored Moravian settlement Old Salem is a restored Moravian settlement founded in 1766. Seventy percent of the buildings are original, and the village is a living history museum with skilled tinsmiths, blacksmiths, cobblers, gunsmiths, bakers and carpenters practicing their trades while ...
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
1771 – Moravian cemetery ("God's Acre") in use in Salem. [1] 1784 – Salem Tavern rebuilt. 1802 – Salem Academy for girls founded. [2] 1840 – Arista Cotton Mill and Fries Woolen Mills in business in Salem. [3] 1843 – Salem Vigilant Fire Company established. [4] 1849 – Salem becomes part of the newly formed Forsyth County. [5]
American Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on the 4th of July 1804 in Salem. 1805. First Universalist congregation founded. Hamilton Hall built in a Federal style in 1805 by Samuel McIntire and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Nathaniel Bowditch House built (circa 1805) at 9 North Street in the Federal Street District.
The house is on the waterfront in Salem and is part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. The site has 12 historic structures, including the Customs House, and a replica of the sailing ship Friendship of Salem. Hoxie House: Sandwich: MA c. 1675 Residential One of the oldest houses on Cape Cod. The Witch House: Salem: MA c. 1675 Residential
A secular county seat was founded in 1849 in newly drawn Forsyth County, north of Salem. The new county seat was named Winston in 1852. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, maker of Winston, Salem, and Camel cigarettes, was founded at Winston in 1875. The towns of Salem and Winston merged as Winston-Salem in 1913.