Visit our Salem, Massachusetts, USA page!
Discover the people who lived there, the places they visited and the stories they shared.
Custom House, 1905
The Custom House in Salem, Massachusetts, built in 1819, is a historic federal building where customs duties were collected for the bustling maritime trade. It's best known as the workplace of author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who used it as inspiration for the introduction to The Scarlet Letter. The building features stately brick architecture, a golden eagle atop its roof, and now serves as part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
Postcard
Posted in the Past: Revealing the true stories written on a postcard
Discover the people who lived there, the places they visited and the stories they shared.
Custom House, 1905
The Custom House in Salem, Massachusetts, built in 1819, is a historic federal building where customs duties were collected for the bustling maritime trade. It's best known as the workplace of author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who used it as inspiration for the introduction to The Scarlet Letter. The building features stately brick architecture, a golden eagle atop its roof, and now serves as part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
Postcard
Posted in the Past: Revealing the true stories written on a postcard
More from Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
The First Meeting-House, 1634-39
Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Salem Witch Trials, 1692
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions in 1692 in colonial Massachusetts, where more than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft. Sparked by fear, superstition, and mass hysteria, the trials led to 20 executions and remain a cautionary tale about injustice and scapegoating.
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Salem, from the Lookout on Witches' Hill
Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.