Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts

This is a timeline of the history of the city of Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

1984

Salem Common during the winter
Brick sidewalk Salem, Massachusetts
Gedney & Cox Houses
Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace, Salem, Massachusetts .
Samuel McIntire , c. 1786, pastel portrait attributed to Benjamin Blyth
Nathaniel Bowditch
Rufus Choate House, (National Register of Historic Places) 1787.
East India Marine Hall in 2013, now part of the Peabody Essex Museum
(built, 1805) Customs House. Downtown Salem, MA
Topmast Studio (WORKSHOP) Salem Massachusetts
Hamilton Hall Chestnut Street, Salem Massachusetts
Cleopatra's Barge painted in 1818
Essex Register published in Salem 1807–1840
Map of Salem, 1820
City Hall, built 1838 (photo later 19th century)
Advertisements for Salem businesses, 1857 [ 34 ]
12 Chestnut Street
Autumn leaves with two pumpkin on Chestnut Street
A late drawing of the first station in Salem, Massachusetts and based on an early dauguerrotype taken between 1839 and 1848. Drawn by George Elmer Browne (born in 1871) sometime before 1917
Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, c. 1900 – 1910 at the Essex Institute .
Salem Harbor , oil on canvas, Fitz Hugh Lane , 1853. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston .
Derby Wharf Light, built in 1871
Map of Salem and Harbor, 1883
The southern end of the station in the 1880s
US Post Office in Salem
Coast Guard Air Station Salem patch
First page of Charles Darrow's patent submission for Monopoly , submitted and granted in 1935 [ 58 ]
Hamilton Hall at 9 Chestnut Street – added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 & built in 1805 by Samuel McIntire -
Chestnut Street District brick sidewalk
Phillips House at 34 Chestnut Street added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 built in 1800 by Samuel McIntire -
1987-built station viewed in 2010
Friendship of Salem at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
In celebration of Nathaniel Bowditch and his work writing the New American Practical Navigator , first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel., in his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts there is the Salem Ferry, named after Bowditch, a high speed catamaran takes people to Boston and is pictured as it is approaching its dock off Blaney Street, Salem Maritime National Historic Site .
The Peabody Essex Museum
Interior Atrium (architecture) PEM
Kimberley Layne Driscoll (born August 12, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the mayor of Salem, Massachusetts [ 84 ] and is the 73rd lieutenant governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party , Driscoll was first elected mayor in 2005. [ 85 ] Before becoming mayor, Driscoll served as an elected member of the Salem City Council and worked as the deputy city manager and chief legal counsel for the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts .
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Bilevel rail car approaching Salem
(river stones with the brick sidewalk) Chestnut Street, In 1981 the City of Salem named its largest historic district after Samuel McIntire. Encompassing Broad, Chestnut, Essex, Federal and connecting streets. Chestnut Street is one of the oldest planned streets in America. Initially laid out in 1796, and then widened in 1803 to 80-feet
Main entrance to Salem station, January 2016
Topmast Studio at the Custom House in Downtown Salem off Essex Street (built, 1805). En plein air artist, Gold leaf & Wood carver John Pydynkowski at his studio