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A sketch of Leslie's Retreat, by Frederick Arthur Bridgman. The Salem Gunpowder Raid (also known as Leslie's Retreat) refers to a February 1775 standoff between the British military and colonists in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, which was ended by a compromise agreement. [1]
Location of Salem in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Salem, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
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.
The Salem Village Historic District encompasses a collection of properties from the early center of Salem Village, as Danvers, Massachusetts was known in the 17th century. . The district includes an irregular pattern of properties along Centre, Hobart, Ingersoll, and Collins Streets, as far north as Brentwood Circle, and south to Mello Parkway
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.
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Salem - 1820 The Charter Street Historic District encompasses a small remnant of the oldest part of Salem, Massachusetts that has since been surrounded by more modern development. It includes three properties on Charter Street: the Pickman House , the Grimshawe House, and the Charter Street Cemetery, or Central Burying Point.
The Salem Maritime National Historic Site is a National Historic Site consisting of 12 historic structures, one replica tall-ship, and about 9 acres (36,000 m 2) of land along the waterfront of Salem Harbor in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem Maritime is the first National Historic Site established in the United States (March 17, 1938). [40]