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Show Glol'Y GlolY Glory Glol'Yof Gloryof ' of Salerno Salem's Salems ' PortDays Portdays Port Days Will dill Be Enshrined National Park Will Include IncludeHistoric IncludeHistoric Historic Structures . Washington , D CSalem C-Salem C Salem C -Salem Salem - - Salem , , Massa Massa- Massachusetts Massachusetts - . chusetts , plans a three acre nation nation- national national . - al park to enshrine enshrme to posterity postenty the theport's theport's theport's theports port's ports ' days of maritime mantIme glory , when whenIts whenits whenits Its oriental orJental sea trade rivaled that thatof thatof thatof of Boston . . "The The " park will include mclude the old oldSalem oldSalem oldSalem Salem customs house . , , adJommg adjoining adJommgwharves adjoiningwharves adjoiningwharves wharves , , and Salem's Salems ' ' oldest bnck brick bnckbUlldmgthe brickbuildingthe brickbuilding bUlldmg-the bUlldmg the building-the building - the Derby house , , " says saysthe saysthe saysthe the National Geographic society . "Derby Derby " wharf will wall be reconstruct reconstruct- reconstructed . - ed as it appeared about 1785 when whenElIas whenEhas whenElias ElIas Ehas Derby , so called 'King King ' of Sa- Sa Salem Sa Salem . - lem Merchants ' . sent his sailing sallIng ShIP shipGrand , Grand Turk , to China Chma This was wasthe wasthe wasthe the first New England shio shm shin to reach reachthe reachthe reachthe the Far East . . In its wake , whole wholefleets wholefleets wholefleets fleets of ships sailed from Salem SalemDubbed SalemDubbed SalemDubbed Dubbed "Pepper Pepper " Port . " "Boston Boston " ships usually went went'round went'round went'round wentround 'round round ' the 'Horn Horn ' ' of South Americaon Amencaon Amenca America on their route to China Chma , but many of ofSalem's ofSalem's ofSalem's ofSalems Salem's Salems ' ships sailed eastward , . looks Hawthorne boulevard 'The The ' ' TheScarlet 'TheScarlet Scarlet Letter ' . and other of his tales talesImmortahzmg talesimmortalizing talesimmortalizing Immortahzmg immortalizing Puritan New England Englandwere Englandwere Englandwere were written in this city Haw Haw- Haw- Haw - - Hawthorne thorne worked as port surveyor In Inthe inthe inthe the old Salem customs house One Onehouse house is pointed pomted out as his bIrth birth- birthplace birth.place birthplace . - place , , another as the original ongmal 'House House 'Houseof 'Houseof 'Houseof Houseof ' of Seven Gables ' Quaint Quamt . , , small small-pancd small pancd - . paned wooden houses on the town's towns town'snarrow town'snarrow town'snarrow townsnarrow ' ' narrow backstreets he used as set- set settings set settings - . tings for his tales , , peopling them themwith themwith themwith with somberly clad elad conscience bur- bur burdened bur burdened - . dened Puritans . . "To To " visualize vJsualIze what a Puritan com com- community community . - munity muruty of 1630 looked like , one has hasonly hasonly hasonly only to visit the reconstructed Pio Pm- Pm Pmneers Pioneers . - neers ' ' . village which covers three threeacres threeacres threeacres acres of Salem's Salems ' Forest River park parkThere There , . primitive cabins cabms and stocks have stockshave been accurately reproduced . 'The The ' The Old Witch House , . where a judge ajudge of the witch watch trials lived hved , . re- re recalls re recalls - . calls historythat hJstorythat a blot on Salem's Salems ' hJstory- hJstory history- history . _ - that str strange strange nge scare that raged through ragedthrough New England in ill the Seven Seven- Seventeenth Seventeenth . - teenth century"After century century"After "After After " 1812 , . Salem's Salems ' importance importanceas as a port waned , and her industry industryI industryillereased Industryincreased industryincreased I illereased increased Today , . the city's citys ' 43 472 472inhabitants 472inhabitants I butI ; InhabItants do little ltttie shipping , . but butmanufacture butmanufacture butmanufacture manufacture cotton goods , . games gamesradio , radIo tubes , and shoes . " |
