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A postcard, circa 1930 or 1940, showing the kitchen in the Governor's Faire House in Pioneer Village. Pioneer Village, also known as Salem 1630: Pioneer Village, is a living history museum recreating the city of Salem as it was in the 17th century. Opened in June 1930, it was the first museum of its kind in the United States.
Today, Salem is a residential and tourist area that is home to the House of Seven Gables, Salem State University, Pioneer Village, the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Salem Willows Park, and the Peabody Essex Museum. It features historic residential neighborhoods in the Federal Street District and the Charter Street Historic District.
Address: 310 West Ave. Salem, MA While there isn’t a Sanderson Sisters museum, like in the movie, you can visit Pioneer Village in Salem for a look into what late-1600s Salem looked and felt like.
Dow was instrumental in the creation of the Pioneer Village for the 300th anniversary of the founding of Salem, Massachusetts. Joseph Everett Chandler, an architect, and George Francis Dow conceived Pioneer Village as a means to demonstrate life in 1630. They "engaged other experts and architects to help pull it off" before the Tercentenary ...
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 ]
Arbella or Arabella [2] was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet on which Governor John Winthrop, other members of the Company (including William Gager), and Puritan emigrants transported themselves and the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company from England to Salem between April 8 and June 12, 1630, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Pioneer Village: Salem: Essex: North Shore: Living: 1630 period village of Salem's settlers Platts-Bradstreet House: Rowley: Essex: Merrimack Valley: Historic house: Home of the Rowley Historical Society, 17th-century house open for events and tours Plimoth Patuxet (formerly Plimoth Plantation) Plymouth: Plymouth: Plymouth: Living
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