Salem The Podcast

90. Salem History: The Salem Common

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Our beloved Common is one of the many hearts and historic centers of Salem. From the first muster of what is now the National Guard over 350 years ago to the filming of Hocus Pocus just 30 years ago, this public space has been a central part of Salem's ever-evolving story since the city's founding. Join Sarah and Jeffrey, your favorite Salem tour guides, for a conversation about fences, musters, hot air balloons, and oddly enough, tigers!

  • 1700 Salem, by James Duncan Phillips, 1933. Based on research of Sydney Perley. Digitized map c/o the University of Virginia Library. Salem Public Library.
  • "Salem Common." salem.gov.
  • "Salem Common Fence Restoration." Preserving Salem.
  • "Salem Common Historic District (Salem, Massachusetts). Wikipedia.
  • "Salem Common in Salem, Massachusetts." Historyofmassachusetts.org.
  • "'Pageant of Salem'" Will Have a Cast of 700 People." The Boston Globe. 04 September 1926.
  • "Balloon Ascension from Salem." Boston Evening Transcript. 22 June 1872.
  • "Running with the old masheen." Lynn Daily Item. 01 July 1903.
  • "Roger Conant Statue Near Salem Common." The Lynn Daily Item. 24 May 1913.
  • "Puritan as a tiger? Never!" The Boston Globe. 28 Dec 1906.

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