#proctor's ledge

[willaughosaurus]

At Proctor's Ledge in Salem, MA

[barelylegible]

Inktober day 31

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Proctor's Ledge, the site of the Salem Witch Trial hangings. Only in the last few years were historians able to pinpoint where the hangings likely occurred, and the site now has a small memorial. My dear best friend was kind enough to visit the memorial for me during her trip to Salem and take the second pic 🖤

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[the-lady-witchitery]

Journal

I’m back in Salem. On my way to find a hotel I passed this. This is Proctor’s Ledge, where people accused of witchcraft were hanged, back in 1692. Further along the road there is a memorial that they’d put up only recently. 19 names in all, all killed in 1692. People think the trials and murders ended after that one ‘witch craze’. Unfortunately not so!

I searched for flowers to leave here, but there weren’t any. I was saddened not to see any left by others, even at the memorial.

[brinnuh87]

Proctor's Ledge, Salem, Massachusetts. 29 likes · 323 were here. Monument

[ladyalaise-blog]

Proctor’s Ledge; Salem Witch Trials

I am VERY pleased this place has been finally identified and plans are in place to make a memorial. My 10th Great Grandmother was Susannah North Martin aka “Goody Martin” and “The Amesbury Witch” etc. She was arrested, tried and convicted during the Salem Witch Trials. She was hung in 1692. I have been to Salem many times and when I next go back I hope to visit this place as the final resting place of Susannah is not known.  I hope the link to the article works! http://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/proctor-s-ledge-in-salem-confirmed-as-witch-execution-site/article_d9e2a242-fdf7-56ac-94eb-5e3f943d0cc3.html

[ml-pnp]

A research team has confirmed the exact site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more than three centuries ago.

The site is called Proctor’s Ledge and can be found in a small plot of woods on a tract owned by the city nestled between two residential streets and behind a Walgreens.

Historian Sidney Perley found Proctors’s Ledge a hundred years ago but the discovery was lost to time, misconceptions and conspiracy theories.

A team of researchers using historical documents, ground breaking radar, and 21st century archaeological techniques has uncovered the exact location of the hangings.

The researchers went about their endeavor to correct the record of a grave injustice.

[bulgak45b-blog]

[archaeologicalnews]

Researchers confirm site of hangings for Salem witch trials

SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the exact site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more than three centuries ago.

The site, known as Proctor's Ledge, is a small city-owned plot of woods nestled between two residential streets and behind a Walgreens pharmacy, said Salem State University history professor Emerson "Tad" Baker, a member of the seven-person team, which announced its findings this week.

Historian Sidney Perley had pinpointed Proctor's Ledge nearly a century ago as the site of the hangings by using historical documents, but his findings were lost to time, and myth, misconceptions and conspiracy theories had taken their place, Baker said. Read more.