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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. It features...
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    or rebuilt and are now part of Old Salem Museums & Gardens. Salem was incorporated as a town in December 1856. Salem Square and God's Acre Cemetery,...
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    Salem (/ˈseɪləm/ SAY-ləm) is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located on the North Shore of Greater Boston. Continuous...
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    The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and...
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    The Old Salem County Courthouse is a courthouse located in Salem, Salem County, New Jersey. Built in 1735, this building is the oldest active courthouse...
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  • his wife Elizabeth were tried and convicted of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials, whereupon he was hanged. Proctor was born in Suffolk, England...
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    Salem Tavern is a historic museum property at 800 South Main Street in the Old Salem Historic District in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina...
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    near historic Old Salem. It is the oldest private school in North Carolina, and the fourth-oldest boarding school in the United States. Salem was founded...
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  • Old Salem is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama, United States. "Old Salem, Alabama". Geographic Names Information System. United States...
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    Salem College is a private women's liberal arts college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1772 as a primary school, it later became an academy...
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    Cemetery (also known as Salem Moravian God's Acre and Salem Moravian Graveyard) is a cemetery for the Moravian congregation in Old Salem, North Carolina. It...
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  • Old Salem is an unincorporated community in Bowie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population...
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  • Old Salem Chautauqua is an unincorporated community in Menard County, Illinois, United States. Old Salem Chautauqua is located on the Sangamon River, 1...
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    Salem is a city in and the county seat of Salem County, the most rural county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The name Salem, for both the city and county...
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    Cultural depictions of the Salem witch trials abound in art, literature and popular media in the United States, from the early 19th century to the present...
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  • neighbors of witchcraft in 1692; these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials. In early 1692, Abigail Williams was living with her relative...
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    Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site is a reconstruction of the former village of New Salem in Menard County, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived...
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  • Gibraltar rock, Gibraltars, or Salem Gibralter is an old-fashioned candy associated with Salem, Massachusetts in the United States. The Gibraltar was...
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    to Salem County in February 1868. The area was initially settled by Quakers. The Old Salem County Courthouse, located on the same block as the Salem County...
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    included Bethabara (1753), Bethania (1759), and Salem, now referred to as Old Salem (1766) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1801, the Moravians established...
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    the headquarters of the southern province of the Moravian Church in Salem (Old Salem), North Carolina, in establishing a congregation. William Eberman,...
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    Old Town Hall Historic District, which was listed in 1972. When first listed in 1972, the district consisted of a cluster of buildings around Salem's...
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    Old Salem Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran Church and adjacent cemetery located at Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The main part of...
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    Salem Square is a grass-covered public square in Old Salem, North Carolina, United States. It dates to the time of the settlement's founding, in 1766,...
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    Salem Oak was a white oak tree at the Salem Friends Burial Ground in Salem, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Estimated to be more than 500 years old,...
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    Salem (/ˈseɪləm/ SAY-ləm) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette...
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  • Proctor (née Bassett; 1650 – after 1703) was convicted of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was the wife of John Proctor, who was convicted...
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    C. Winkler Bakery is a bakery on South Main Street in Old Salem, North Carolina. Now the oldest continually operating bakery in the state, it was established...
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    Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, also known as the Old Salem Lutheran Church, is an historic, American Evangelical Lutheran church that is located in...
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    redefining of metropolitan areas by the US Census Bureau, the old Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area was broken up in 2003...
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