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Best Historic Overview of Salem Walking Tour
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
$30
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Overview
The Best Historic Overview of Salem Walking Tour offers a deep dive into the fascinating history of Salem, Massachusetts. This 90-minute tour covers key events from the witch trials to the American Revolution.
- 🕰️ Visit the oldest cemetery in Salem, dating back to 1637, where notable Puritans like judges John Hathorne and Bartholomew Gedney are buried.
- 📜 Explore the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, featuring benches dedicated to the 20 individuals executed during the 1692 hysteria, each inscribed with their name and execution details.
- 🏛️ Discover Lyceum Hall, where Bridget Bishop, the first woman executed for witchcraft, lived, and where Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone in 1877.
- ⚓ Learn about Salem's maritime history at Salem Old Town Hall, once the richest port in America, and the filming location for parts of Hocus Pocus.
- 🏨 Hear stories of George Corwin, high sheriff during the witch trials, and George Washington's visit to Salem, where he stayed in what is now known as the Washington Room.
- 📺 See the statue of Samantha Stevens from the TV show Bewitched in Lappin Park, located on land once owned by the infamous Judge John Hathorne.
- 🏠 Visit The Witch House, the last structure in Salem directly tied to the witch trials, built in the 1660s and home to Judge Jonathan Corwin.
- ⚔️ Learn about Leslie's Retreat at the North Bridge, where colonists thwarted redcoats from seizing weapons just months before Lexington and Concord.
- 👟 Comfortable walking shoes are recommended, as the tour covers about one mile with numerous stops, allowing for a thorough exploration of Salem's history.
- 🚶♀️ Wheelchair accessible and suitable for all physical fitness levels, with prams and strollers welcome.
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Best Historic Overview of Salem Walking Tour
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
- We visit locations that have compelling history unknown to many locals
- Hear tales of Maritime and Revolutionary significance.
- Local and Professional Guide
- 90 minute Historic Salem Walking Tour
- Guide uses an amplifier so everyone can hear the Salem History
- No food and drink offered, but snacks available for purchase
- Hotel Pick-Up/Drop-Off
- Gratuities
Meeting point
We are part of the pedestrian walkway downtown at the corner of Essex and Central Streets. We are next to Emporium 32 and across from the New England Dog Biscuit Company. Look for our purple sign.
Return details
Return Location: Returns to downtown Salem area. Tour Guide can help direct you to where you want to go.
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Salem Historical Tours & Haunted Footsteps Ghost TourDiscover why Salem is the true birthplace of the United States of America with the best history tour in the city. Explore over four centuries of Salem’s remarkable history from its illustrious founding in 1626, to its place as a thriving 21st Century city. The witch trials made Salem infamous, but there’s so much more. Explore Salem’s critical role in the American Revolution, how it led the great Age of Sail, and all about the many important and famous people who’ve called Salem home. The United States just wouldn’t be the same without Salem. The guide will go to as many locations as possible.
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Salem has plenty of revolutionary history. You'll visit the location where local revolutionaries met to discuss plans for a potential war with England.
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Charter Street CemeteryVisit the oldest cemetery in Salem and one of the oldest in the country. Dating back to 1637, the cemetery is the resting place of many of the Puritans, including judges John Hathorne and Bartholomew Gedney, Nathaniel Mather, Samuel McIntire, Simon Forrester, Richard Derby and more
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Salem Witch Trials MemorialVisit the Salem Witchcraft Trials memorial dedicated to the 20 people executed during the hysteria in 1692. THe memorial has a bench for each person that includes name, date of execution and form of execution. The memorial has a lot of symbolism.
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Lyceum Hall, home to Turner's Seafood, has significance to the witchcraft trials and additional history. Bridget Bishop, the first woman executed for witchcraft in 1692, lived on the grounds. In 1877, Alexander Graham Bell performed the first public demonstration of the telephone here.
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Salem Old Town HallWe will discuss Salem's incredible maritime history that began right after the American Revolution. From 1790-1812, Salem was the richest port in the country. Elias Haskett Derby became America's first millionaire in 1793. Portions of Hocus Pocus were filmed at the site as well. And Harry Houdini was put in the jail across the street. He wasn't under arrest, but the police chief wanted to see if Harry could break out of the new jail cell.
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Hear a story about George Corwin, the high sheriff of the 1692 Witchcraft Trials, who lived on the grounds where the building now sits. In addition, George Washington visited Salem and stayed in a room in the hotel that is today called the Washington Room. And Amelia Earhart taught English in the Salem Commercial School just one block away.
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Rockafellas is in a building that was the fourth location of the first church. The second location was there too. In addition, the Town House Square building was on that spot and that has revolutionary history. Massachusetts was basically declared a state on those grounds. A local congress of representatives met there before going to Ipswich, Concord and finally the continental congress in Philadelphia.
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Samantha Stevens of the TV Show Bewitched is in Lappin Park. A handful of episodes of the show were shot here in Salem. The best part is that her statue sits on land that was owned by the hanging Judge John Hathorne. How ironic that a witch sits on his former property.
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Before the YMCA was here, Mrs. Brown had a home here with a famous border. That was Alexander Graham Bell. He lived at the home, educated her grandson and then would take the train to Boston to teach at Boston University. He also had an attic laboratory where he worked on the telephone.
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The Witch House at SalemThe Witch House is the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin. It was built in the 1660s and Corwin bought it in 1675. No witches lived here but it is the last home in Salem with direct ties to the 1692 Witchcraft Trials.
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Leslie's Retreat happened here at the North Bridge as 140 redcoats led by Colonel Leslie tried to cross the river to take weapons and cannons on the other side. Several colonists stopped them by pulling up the draw bridge. No shots were fired, but the British left empty handed. This preceded Lexington and Concord by two months.
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Best Historic Overview of Salem Walking Tour
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
$30
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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