Salem Witch Trials Memorial - Danvers, MA
N 42° 33.930 W 070° 57.460
19T E 339311 N 4714423
Memorial dedicated to the victims of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692
Waymark Code: WM3VGJ
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 05/21/2008
Views: 116
From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided.
Disaster Date: 02/25/1692
Date of dedication: 05/09/1992
Memorial Sponsors: Ralph E. Ardiff, Jr.
Disaster Type: Sociological
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Parking Coordinates: Not Listed
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