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Northshore October 2025
The witchcraft Victims' Memorial in a quiet corner of Danvers is one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it historic sites, but it bears witness to one of the darkest chapters in early American history. "Burn me or hang me," reads a quotation attributed to George Jacobs, one of 25 people who died as a result of the 1692 Salem Village Witchcraft Hysteria, "but I will stand in the truth of Christ. I know nothing of witchcraft."Located at 176 Hobart Street, directly opposite the original site of the Meeting House, where most of the witchcraft examinations took place, the simple and poignant granite memorial provides an unbreakable link between the Da
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