Charter Street Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts
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Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts is one of the city’s oldest and most historic graveyards, notable for containing the graves of prominent figures from the Salem witch trials era.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charter Street Cemetery | 0 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
burial ground
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historic cemetery ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Charter Street
NERFINISHED
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Liberty Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Charter Street Cemetery
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surface form:
Charter Street Burial Ground
Old Burying Point Cemetery ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| earliestGravesDateFrom | 1600s ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Salem, Massachusetts
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surface form:
City of Salem
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| hasAccessRestriction |
limited visiting hours
ⓘ
rules to protect fragile stones ⓘ |
| hasChronology | continuous use from 17th century into 19th century ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
early New England funerary art
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memory of Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
carved death’s head motifs
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family plots ⓘ footstones ⓘ historic gravestones ⓘ slate headstones ⓘ table tombs ⓘ winged skull iconography ⓘ |
| hasHistoricPeriod |
Colonial era
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Salem witch trials era ⓘ |
| hasNearbySite |
Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Salem, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
|
| heritageDesignation |
National Register of Historic Places
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surface form:
National Register of Historic Places contributing property
|
| inception | 17th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Essex County, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
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Massachusetts ⓘ Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedNear |
Salem Historic District
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem downtown historic area
Salem Harbor ⓘ
surface form:
Salem waterfront
|
| maintainedBy |
Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Salem
|
| municipality |
Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Salem
|
| notableFor |
association with Salem witch trials era
ⓘ
graves of prominent 17th-century Salem residents ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| partOf | Charter Street Historic District ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
heritage preservation efforts
ⓘ
historical research ⓘ tourist walking tours ⓘ |
| tourismType |
dark tourism
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heritage tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burial
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commemoration ⓘ heritage tourism ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.