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The Salem community got a first look at the new Charter Street Cemetery Welcome Center after Mayor Kim Driscoll cut a red ribbon with oversize scissors before a gathered crowd outside the Samuel ...
Located next to the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Old Burying Point Cemetery is also known as Charter Street Cemetery. The cemetery is open daily from noon to 4 p.m. (the last entrance time into ...
SALEM — Visitors to Charter Street Burial Ground will be prohibited from entering the historic graveyard this Halloween season. The city's Cemetery Commission voted Tuesday night to bar members ...
A new partnership forged between the city of Salem and the Peabody Essex Museum will bring order and educational elements to the Charter Street Cemetery – the city’s oldest burial ...
Salem and Peabody Essex Museum officials recently held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of the new Charter Street Cemetery Welcome Center. Housed in the historic Pickman House adjacent to ...
SALEM — The centuries-old Charter Street Burial Ground, which includes the graves of Salem witch trial judges, is on its way to getting a rejuvenated face. Changes to the 1.47-acre cemetery will ...
SALEM — The Burying Point is the oldest cemetery in the city, dating to 1637. This plot of land on Charter Street is the ground Nathaniel Hawthorne trod and mentioned in his writings.
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — The city of Salem, Massachusetts, is limiting the number of people who will be allowed inside a historic cemetery with a direct link to the 1692 witch trials as Halloween ...