| Massachusetts (Essex County), Beverly — Hospital Point Light / Honor the Valiant Men |
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Hospital Point Light was established in 1871 and marks the deep-water channel to Beverly, Salem, and Marblehead.
A smallpox hospital once stood on the hill to the rear, where there is also evidence of ramparts dug during the Revolutionary War.
[Top (smaller) Marker]
The Colonel Ebenezer Francis
Chapter NSDAR of Beverly honor
the valiant men who manned this
fort during the Revolutionary War. — Map (db m21441) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Beverly — Hospital Point Lighthouse — Established 1872 |
| | Hospital Point Light was constructed and first lighted in 1872 to help guide vessels into Salem and Beverly Harbors. The original two-story keeper's house and oil house are still being used.
The name Hospital Point stems from a smallpox hospital built on this site in 1801. The hospital, used as a barracks in the War of 1812, burned down in 1849. A watch house was built on these grounds as early as 1711. The "J" Shaped earth-work fort, which still stands, was built on the upper grounds in . . . — Map (db m21429) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Danvers — Deacon Nathaniel Ingersoll — 1634 - 1719 |
| | gave this land to the inhabitants of Salem Village as A Training Place Forever. To the memory of him and of the brave men who have gone hence to pro- tect their homes and to serve their country, this stone is erected by the town. 1894. — Map (db m17994) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Danvers — Rebecca Nurse Homestead — 1678 |
| | In 1636 Francis Weston was granted this land upon which he laid out a farm. This property was purchased by Governor John Endicott in 1648, and in 1678 Francis and Rebecca Nurse moved here and built a house. In March, 1692, 71-year-old Rebecca was accused by children of Salem Village of practicing witchcraft. Nurse, upon hearing of the accusation, exclaimed, “I am innocent as the child unborn, but surely what sin hath God found out in me unrepented of that He should lay such an affliction . . . — Map (db m17989) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Danvers — Salem Village Meeting House — 1672 |
| | Directly across from this site was located the original Salem Village Meeting House where civil and military meetings were held, and ministers including George Burroughs, Deodat Lawson, and Samuel Parris preached. The infamous 1692 witchcraft hysteria began in this neighborhood. On March 1 accused witches Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, and Tituba were interrogated in the Meeting House amidst the horrific fits of the “afflicted ones.” Thereafter numerous others were examined including . . . — Map (db m17983) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Danvers — Salem Village Witchcraft Victims' Memorial |
| | In memory of those innocents who died during the Salem Village Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 Back Monument: “I am an innocent person. I never had to do with witchcraft since I was born. I am a Gosple woman.” Martha Cory “The Lord above knows my innocencye . . . as att the great day will be known to men and Angells. I Petition to your honours not for my own life for I know I must die and my appointed time is sett but the Lord he knows it is that if it be possible no more . . . — Map (db m18518) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Danvers — Samuel Holten House — 1670 |
| | A fine example of chronological and architectural house development, this was the 1692 home of Sarah Holton, who gave damaging testimony against Rebecca Nurse during the witchcraft hysteria. Here during revolutionary period lived Samuel Holten – physician, statesman, and judge. A member of the Provincial Congress of 1774-75, member of the Committee of Safety, member of the Continental Congress from 1778-80, 1782-87 and temporary president in 1785, signer of the Articles of Confederation, . . . — Map (db m17988) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Danvers — The Church in Salem Village — 1630 – 1930 |
| | To this church, rent by the witchcraft frenzy, came in 1697 the Reverend Joseph Green, aged twenty-two. He induced the mischief makers to confess, reconciled the factions, established the first public school, and became noted for his skill at hunting game and his generous hospitality. — Map (db m17982) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Danvers — Village Training Field — 1671 |
| | Defense was a prime necessity to the early settlers of Salem Village, and as early as 1671 the male inhabitants began meeting here for military drill. This preparation was heightened in 1675 during the King Philip War in which many villagers took part. In 1709 Deacon Nathaniel Ingersoll willed this field “to the inhabitants of Salem Village for a training place forever.” In the 1770s Danvers alarm companies began training here in anticipation of troubles with Britain, and it was . . . — Map (db m17991) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Marblehead — Marblehead Light — Latitude 42 Degrees 30' 20" N Longitude 70 Degrees 50' 03" W |
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In July of 1789, Representative Elbridge Gerry, native of Marblehead, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Vice President of the United States under President James Madison, filed H.R. Bill 12 in Congress, officially launching the United States Lighthouse and Navigational Aid System. The Bill passed the House of Representatives on July 20, 1789, and passed the Senate on July 31, 1789. It was signed into law by President George Washington on August 7, 1789. . . . — Map (db m21453) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Salem — Derby Wharf |
| | The wharf in front of you was Salem’s longest, and was once one of the busiest in the nation. During the War of Independence, American privateers sailed from here to prey on British ships on the high seas. After the war, fleets of trading vessels based here sailed to the Far East and other exotic ports, bringing wealth to Salem and its shipowners.
Although the wharf faces the U.S. Custom House behind you, it was not owned by the government. The wharf belonged to shipowner Elias Hasket . . . — Map (db m23772) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Salem — Roger Conant — Born 1592 – Died 1679 — The First Settler of Salem, 1626 |
| | “I was a means, through grace assisting me, to stop the flight of those few that then were here with me, and that by my utter denial to go away with them, who would have gone either for England, or mostly for Virginia.” — Map (db m17985) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Salem — Salem Harbor |
| | If Salem was once a prosperous world seaport, it was not due to the geography of the harbor, but to the enterprise of her seamen, tradesmen, and merchants.
Unlike other major ports such as New York, Salem Harbor had no major river to link it with inland towns and markets. The harbor was shallow – too shallow to accommodate the much larger merchant vessels built after 1850. In addition, the many islands and submerged rocks at the approach to the harbor made navigating dangerous at . . . — Map (db m23691) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Salem — The Custom House |
| | Inside this impressive building were the offices of the United States Customs Service collectors, inspectors, and other officials. It was here that ship’s captains and owners paid duties on imported goods, ordinarily about 5% of their value.
Before the passage of the Federal Income Tax Act of 1913, customs duties on ship’s cargoes provided much of the money to run the national government. Between 1789 and 1840, duties collected here earned the Treasury more than $20 million – a . . . — Map (db m23857) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Salem — The First Muster |
| | On this common, the East Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, held its first muster. This event marked the beginning of the National Guard of the U.S. Salem 1637 Donated by the Rotary Club of Salem May 4, 2002 — Map (db m17987) |
| Massachusetts (Essex County), Salem — To the Farthest Port |
| | In the late 1700s and early 1800s Salem’s ships reached out to the world. From this wharf alone between 1785 and 1799, shipowner Elias Hasket Derby dispatched 170 trading vessels on pioneering voyages to China, India, the East Indies, and the Baltic. The first New England vessel to visit the Orient was Derby’s Grand Turk which set sail in 1785.
A merchant ship bound for the East Indies might have slipped from her berth here with a cargo of salted fish, ham, flour, whale oil, soap, tobacco, . . . — Map (db m23647) |
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