Derby Square Tours: Salem Scenes


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"SALEM SCENES"
These images, along with five others, are available as a packaged, limited edition set.
How to purchase the set
Photographs and text by Jim McAllister
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FORRESTER MANSION
This elegant Washington Square mansion was built in 1818 for John Forrester, son of one of Salem's foremost "merchant princes". The home served as headquarters of the exclusive Salem Club in the early part of this century before being sold to the Bertram Home for Aged Men in 1927.

TOWN HOUSE SQUARE FOUNTAIN
In his short story, "A Rill From the Town Pump" (1835), Nathaniel Hawthorne called for the building of a monument for the pump that had provided fresh water to Salem residents for nearly two centuries. Hawthorne's wish was finally fulfilled in the 1970's when the city built this fountain in Town House Square.

THE BURYING POINT
The Town of Salem laid out its first cemetery in 1637 on a point of land overlooking the South River. Witch Trial Judges John Hathorne and Bartholomew Gedney, architect-carver Samuel McIntire, and Mayflower passenger Richard More are all buried here. Names from gravestones in the Burying Point often appear in Nathaniel Hawthorne's writings.

SALEM COMMON BANDSTAND
The memorial bandstand on the Salem Common (also known as Washington Square) was erected at the time of Salem's Tercentenary Celebration in 1926. It was later dedicated to Jean Missud, long time director of the famed Salem Cadet Band.

PET COSTUME PARADE
In recent years Salem has staked out its claim as "Halloween Capital of the World."The city's October festival, "Haunted Happenings", features costume parades, haunted mansions, candlelight tours and a host of other bewitching activities. The pet costume contest is obviously more popular with the pets' owners than with the entrants themselves.

How to Purchase Postcard Sets

These images, along with five others by Jim McAllister, are available as a packaged, limited edition set from Derby Square Tours. Each of the one thousand sets are signed by Jim McAllister and numbered. To order, send a check or money order payable to Jim McAllister in the amount of $10.50 ($8.95 plus sales tax and shipping) to

Derby Square Tours, 86 Federal Street, Salem, 01970.
For more information call (978)745-6314.