First muster on Salem Common. This was the first time that a regiment of militia drilled for the common defense of a multi-community area [2], thus laying the foundation for what became the Army National Guard. [3]
Pickman House built. It is now owned by the Peabody Essex Museum and is not open to the public.
1665
Gedney House built (approximate date). It is now operated as a non-profit museum by Historic New England. The house is rarely open to the public, though private tours can be arranged.
1667
House of the Seven Gables built for Capt. John Turner. It remained in his family for three generations, descending from John Turner II to John Turner III.
John Ward House built. The house was moved to its present site in 1910 and restored by the Peabody Essex Museum. It is open for viewing on guided tour. Rooms on the first floor feature 17th-century furnishings.[4]
Samuel McIntire, c. 1786, pastel portrait attributed to Benjamin BlythSamuel McIntire (January 16, 1757 – February 6, 1811) American architect and craftsman, born in Salem. He built a simple home and workshop on Summer Street in 1786.
Derby Wharf (1762, extended 1806) – Salem's longest wharf (nearly 1/2 mile). When in active use, it was lined with warehouses of goods from around the world. The Derby Wharf Light (1871) remains at the end of the wharf.
On February 26, 1775, patriots raised the drawbridge at the North River, preventing British Colonel Alexander Leslie and his 300 troops of the 64th Regiment of Foot from seizing stores and ammunition hidden in North Salem. A few months later, in May 1775, a group of prominent merchants with ties to Salem, including Francis Cabot, William Pynchon, Thomas Barnard, E. A. Holyoke and William Pickman, felt the need to publish a statement retracting what some interpreted as Loyalist leanings and to profess their dedication to the Colonial cause.[3]
May 19: New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky over the New England states and parts of Canada, so complete that candles were required from noon on. It is thought to have been caused by a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover, and did not disperse until the middle of the next night.[4]
Benjamin Hawkes House (a Federal mansion) built in the Derby Wharf Historic District on Derby Wharf.
Friendship of Salem built. She made 15 voyages during her career, to Batavia, India, China, South America, the Caribbean, England, Germany, the Mediterranean, and Russia; she was captured as a prize of war by the British in September 1812.
Essex Register published in Salem 1807-1840Map of Salem, 1820City Hall, built 1838 (photo later 19th century)Advertisements for Salem businesses, 1857[7]
Derby Wharf extended. Salem's longest wharf (nearly 1/2 mile). When in active use, it was lined with warehouses of goods from around the world. (Originally constructed 1762.)
1807
A brick Federal Mansion is built at 10 Chestnut Street.
A nice brick Federal home at 2 Oliver Street is built.
1816
Salem Old Town Hall built. It is the earliest surviving municipal structure in Salem (dating from 1816–17) and an outstanding example of Federal architecture. The second floor of the building, Great Hall, has always been used as a public hall. The first floor, originally a public market, now houses the Salem Museum. [6]
Salem Customs House built on the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, the 13th Customs House in Salem; the first was built in 1649. Each collected taxes on imported cargoes.
Connecting Salem to Boston via Railroad happened in 1838 and is still in use today as the Salem (MBTA station).[10][11] Service from Salem to East Boston began on August 27, 1838, with fares half that of competing stagecoaches.
A late drawing of the first station in Salem, Massachusetts and based on an early dauguerrotype taken between 1839 and 1848. Drawn by George Elmer Browne (born in 1871) sometime before 1917
By the 1870s, a roundhouse, coaling tower, and water tank were located inside the wye to serve the three lines from the west.[14][15] The roundhouse was later rebuilt with more stalls and access from the south to serve commuter trains.[16]
1879
The Coach House Inn is a beautiful Victorian mansion built by a sea captain on Lafayette Street.
1880
A tradional home is constructed at 12 Rice Street in what is now called the Bridge Street Neck Historic District.
A nice house is built at 24-1/2 Winter Street
1881
North Street Fire Station built.
The southern end of the station in the 1880s
1882
On April 7, 1882, a fire resulting from an explosion of a can of fusees destroyed the wooden trainshed, although the granite facade and towers were intact. A wooden replacement was built around the burnt section.[10][17] On December 2, 1884, the Eastern was acquired by the B&M.[10][11] For several decades until the 1930s, Salem was the turnback point for a limited number of short turn trains.[18]
Parker Brothers publishes the game Rook. It quickly became the best-selling game in the country, and remains their most successful card game to this day.
Salem Laundry building built. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
1907
The Salem Athenaeum's new building, at 337 Essex Street, dedicated. The Athenaeum was founded in 1810 and is one of the oldest private library organizations in the United States. In 1905, the Athenæum sold the building at 132 Essex Street to the Essex Institute (now the Peabody Essex Museum), and constructed its new building.
1908
House of the Seven Gables purchased by Caroline O. Emmerton, founder of the House of Seven Gables Settlement Association. She restored it from 1908 to 1910 as a museum whose admission fees would support the association.
US Post Office in SalemCoast Guard Air Station Salem patchFirst page of Charles Darrow's patent submission for Monopoly, submitted and granted in 1935 [20]
The B&M extended the Salem tunnel to the south, and soon after built a station in the southern approach span.[25] However, the station lacked modern elements like parking capacity and elevators to make the below-ground-level platforms handicapped accessible. In 1987, the MBTA abandoned the station and built the present station at the north end of the tunnel. The 1959 station building remains at 89 Margin Street; it has been converted into a private school.[26] The platforms remain extant in the tunnel approach, as do rusted pieces of staircases from Mill Street and a pedestrian overpass behind the station building.[27]
1964
Hawthorne Cove Marina [9] established, a 110-slip marina on Salem Harbor near the Salem ferry terminal.
Salem Common added to the National Register of historic Places.
1977
Dodge Wing completed at the Peabody Essex Museum [29]
1978
'Joshua Ward House added separately to the National Register of Historic Places.
1979
Salem City Hall was expanded in order to house city archives.
1981
Chestnut Street District created. Containing 407 buildings, this is the city's largest district.
1982
Rufus Choate House was added to the National Register of Historic Places
Phillips House at 34 Chestnut Street added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 built in 1800 by Samuel McIntire -
1983
Fort Pickering Light was relit as a private aid to navigation by the City of Salem in 1983.
John P. Peabody House is a historic house at 15 Summer Street was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Stephen Phillips House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 & is now owned and operated as a historic house museum by Historic New England and is open for public tours.
West Cogswell House, a historic set of row houses located at 5-9 Summer Street and was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Peabody Essex Museum was formed by mergeding with the Essex Institute to form the Peabody Essex Museum. Included in the merger was the legacy of the East India Marine Society, established in 1799 by a group of Salem-based ship captains.
Winter Island Light is a constituent part of the Winter Island Historic District and Archeological District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 14, 1994, reference number 94000335.
Fort Lee was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church and Rectory is added to the National Register of Historic Places.
1997
Construction of the rigging shed (80-by-16-foot wooden building) at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, a carpentry workshop and storage space since for The Friendship.
1999
The Salem Diner was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
21st century
2000
Friendship of Salem is a 171-foot replica of a 1797 East Indiaman, built in the Scarano Brothers Shipyard in Albany, New York, in 2000. The ship usually functions as a stationary museum during most of the year, however the ship is a fully functioning United States Coast Guard certified vessel capable of passenger and crew voyages, and will set sail during various times of the year. The first American National Historic Site is run by the National Park Service at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site where the Friendship of Salem is docked.
Friendship of Salem at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
2001
Pickering Wharf Marina opens as a full-service marina in Salem Harbor.
The National Park Service acquired the Pedrick Store House from the town of Marblehead, this 1770 warehouse was built in Marblehead, just across the harbor from Salem, in 1770 by Thomas Pedrick, a successful member of the merchant community in pre-Revolutionary War Marblehead. [10]
The original Fame was a fast Chebacco fishing schooner that was reborn as a privateer when war broke out in the summer of 1812. She was arguably the first American privateer to bring home a prize, and she made 20 more captures before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in 1814. The new Fame is a full-scale replica of this famous schooner. Framed and planked of white oak and trunnel-fastened in the traditional manner, the replica of Fame was launched in 2003. She is now based at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site at Pickering Wharf Marina, where she takes the paying public for cruises on historic Salem Sound.[11]
The Peabody Essex Museum completed a massive $100 million renovation and expansion resulting in the opening a new wing designed by Moshe Safdie, more than doubling the gallery space to 250,000 square feet (23,000 m²); this allowed the display of many items from its extensive holdings, which had previously been unknown to the public due to lack of capability to show them. At this time, the museum also opened to the public the Yin Yu Tang House, an early 19th-century Chinese house from Anhui Province that had been removed from its original village and reconstructed in Salem.[37]
The Peabody Essex Museum
Yin Yu Tang House[13] Yin Yu Tang, was built around 1800 in China. Over 200 years after construction the Yin Yu Tang House was disassembled in China, shipped to America and then reassembled in 2003 inside the Peabody Essex Museum.
The Salem Ferry a 92-foot (28 m) high-speed catamaran that travels from Salem to Boston in 50 minutes from May to October and had its maiden voyage on June 22, 2006.
Waterfront redevelopment – The first step in the redevelopment was in 2006, when the State of Massachusetts gave Salem $1,000,000.[39] The bulk of the money – $750,000 – was earmarked for acquisition of the Blaney Street landing, the private, 2-acre (8,100 m2) site off Derby Street used by the ferry. Another $200,000 was approved for the design of the new Salem wharf, a large pier planned for the landing, which officials said could be used by small cruise ships, commercial vessels and fishing boats.
Doyle Sailmakers expanded into a new 31,000 square foot loft in Salem, Massachusetts
The City of Salem launched the Haunted Passport program which offers visitors discounts and benefits from local tourist attractions and retailers from October to April.[14]
Pedrick Store House, a three-story building, constructed around 1770, is a historic rigging and sail loft, which the Park Service relocated from Marblehead to Salem in 2007 & construction began in the rebuilding of the Pedrick Store House, which had been in storage for many years disassembled – current location is Derby Wharf at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.[15][16][17]
Start of the Salem Farmers Market, taking place every Thursday – starting in June and going thru to October at Derby Square on Front Street [19]
2010
The City of Salem's plans call for a total build-out of the current Blaney Street pier, known as the Salem Wharf project. When finished, the Blaney Street pier will be home to small to medium-sized cruise ships, commercial vessels and the Salem Ferry. This project is fully engineered and permitted.[42]
On July 28, 2010 Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick signed into law today a bill that transforms Salem State College into Salem State University. Salem and eight other Massachusetts state colleges have collectively formed a new Massachusetts state university system. [20]
Salem Harborwalk opened in July 2010 to celebrate the rebirth of the Salem waterfront as a source of recreation for visitors as well as the local community. The 1,100-foot (340 m) walkway extends from the area of the Salem Fire Station to the Salem Waterfront Hotel.[43][44]
The $57.5 million, 525-student residence hall on Central Campus at Salem State University opened. [21]
Logo of Salem State University
2011
Opening of the $109 million J. Michael Ruane Judicial Centerin Salem, located at 56 Federal Street. [22]
A bike program called Salem Spins, that offers bicycles, free of charge, with a fleet of 20 bicycles, split between two hubs, at Salem State University and downtown, near the Hawthorne Hotel.[45]
Waterfront redevelopment – construction crews were building a long seawall at the Blaney Street landing, which runs from the edge of the ferry dock back toward Derby Street and along an inner harbor. This is one of the early and key pieces of the Salem Pier, which the city hopes to have completed by 2014 and is the key to eventually bring cruise ships to Salem.[46][47]
A master plan was developed for Winter Island in Salem, with help from the planning and design firm The Cecil Group of Boston and Bioengineering Group of Salem, and the City of Salem paid $45,000 in federal money.[48] In the long term the projected cost to rehabilitate just the barracks is $1.5 million. But in the short term, there are multiple lower-cost items like a proposed $15,000 for a kayak dock or $50,000 to relocate and improve the bathhouse. This is a very important project since Fort Pickering guarded Salem Harbor as far back as the 17th century.[49]
In 2011, a mahogany side chair with carving done by Samuel McIntire sold at auction for $662,500.[50] The price set a world record for Federal furniture. McIntyre was one of the first architects in the United States, and his work represents a prime example of early Federal-style architecture. Elias Hasket Derby, Salem's wealthiest merchant and thought to be America's first millionaire, and his wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield, purchased the set of eight chairs from McIntire.[51] Samuel McIntyre's house and workshop were located at 31 Summer Street in what is now the Samuel McIntire Historic District.[51][52]
2012
Waterfront redevelopment – In June 2012, the $1.75 million was awarded by the state of Massachusetts and will launch a first phase of dredging and construction of a 100-foot (30 m) extension of the pier; a harborwalk to improve pedestrian access; and other lighting, landscaping and paving improvements. Dredging will allow the city to attract other ferries, excursion vessels and cruise ships of up to 250 feet (76 m).[53]
2013
President Barack Obama on 10 January 2013 signed executive order HR1339 "which designates the City of Salem, Massachusetts, as the birthplace of the U.S. National Guard. [23]
Salem has eight stations where drivers can charge their electric cars. Four are located at the Museum Place Mall near the Peabody Essex Museum and the other four are in the South Harbor garage across the street from the Salem Waterfront Hotel. [24] The program started in January 2013 and will be free of charge for two years, allowing people to charge their electric cars and other electric vehicles for up to six hours. This program was paid for by a grant from the state of Massachusetts due to Salem's status as a Massachusetts Green Community. [25]
Salem State University campus – $74 million, 122,000-square-foot library at . [26] The new library will have more than 150 public computers and 1,000 seats of study space, from tables and desks to lounge chairs scattered throughout the building.
Salem State University campus – $15 million 40,000-square-foot, two-story, glass-walled facility at the existing athletic O’Keefe Center complex. The new fitness facility will provide—in addition to more exercise equipment, two basketball courts, a yoga studio, and a conference/lecture hall that can accommodate an audience of 1000—a place where students can gather, connect and find a bit of respite from the rigors of their academic studies. [27]
Salem State University campus – Construction announcement of a $36 to $42 million Dorn for 350 to 400 students. A construction start in the spring of 2014 is the goal and to have the new residence hall open in 2015. [28][29]
Salem will be getting a new state-of-the-art, 20,000-square-foot Senior Center. In March 2013, The Salem Senior Center was finalized in March 2013 by the Mayor of Salem & the Salem city councilors it is official with a $4.9 million bond — the final OK needed to build a community/senior center as part of a private/public development at Boston and Bridge streets.[30][31] The Salem Senior Center will include parking for 374 automobiles. [32]
2014
The Coal-Fired Power Plant is Decommissioned, paving the way for a total transformation of the harbor in Salem. [33]
2015
Footprint Power has cleared the last major hurdle on its way to building a $1 billion natural gas-fired plant on Salem Harbor.[34]
In June, officials hold groundbreaking for Salem's $1B Footprint power plant.[54]
Tourists from all over the world make up the over one million people visit Salem annually, and bring in over $100 million dollars annually in tourism spending.[55]
2016
Salem Harbor has four stops for 2016 new Salem Water Shuttle: Blaney Street, Congress Street, Salem Willows and Winter Island.
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Dane Anthony Morrison and Nancy Lusignan Schultz, eds., Salem: Place, Myth, Memory (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004)