The North End and Freedom Trail Walking Tour

The Road to Liberty in Historic Downtown Boston

Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 Walking Tour

The Witch House, home of Judge Jonathan Corwin

Court of Oyer & Terminer was located here.

The plaque that identifies the location of the courthouse

Bridget Bishop, 1st woman executed in 1692, lived where Turner's Seafood is now

Giles Corey was crushed to death just beyond the parking lot.

Sheriff George Corwin had a home on the grounds of this current building

The hysteria that resulted in the execution of 20 people and hundreds of witchcraft accusations

Salem Harbor was the center of activity and source of great wealth for Salem in the Great Age of Sail. Derby Wharf extends 2,000 feet into the harbor and contained several shipping-related buildings like the Pedrick sail loft shown here.

The Salem Town Hall was built in 1815 to accommodate town meetings and a marketplace for agricultural produce. A weekly market is still held here from spring to fall.

Salem is now known as the "Witch city" and the Halloween capital of the world, attracting vast crowds in October. Among the attractions are many occult museums and shops.

The Jonathan Corwin House (1675) is known as the Witch House because many of the accused in 1692 were brought to Judge Corwin's house for pre-trial examination.

An Introduction to Salem's Past and Present

Salem through the Centuries

Boston Begets a Revolution: Forgotten Stories of Patriots - Private Walking Tour

Sometimes called "the most photographed street in America", Acorn Street on Beacon Hill was built as a back alley in the 1820s for tradesmen and coachmen serving the surrounding mansions of Boston's "Brahmin" families.

Louisburg Square, named after the 1758 British victory at Fort Louisbourg during the French and Indian War, is probably the most prestigious address in Boston.

Tucked among the brick and stone buildings of Beacon Hill, there are hidden sights that are easily overlooked if you don't know where to look!

My tours are an immersive experience to help the traveler re-live the past. While we walk we will hold a conversation. Sometimes we might experience the sights, sounds and smells of historic Boston. I use one-of-a-kind maps I have personally edited going back to first sources. Special photo-transparencies are overlaid against modern sites to help you see Boston as it appeared in the past.

Cedar Lane Way appears on 18th century British maps as a place of interest to sailors and seaman near the foot of Beacon Hill before the area was later developed in the 1820 - 1850s. Ask me why?

John Hancock, the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, twice Governor of Massachusetts and a very wealthy merchant, kept his counting house money in this safe.

From this second floor balcony on the Old State House, the people of Boston first heard the reading of the Declaration of Independence on 18 July 1776. The City of Chicago offered to buy and relocate the building after its 1871 fire destroyed thousands of buildings!

Benjamin Franklin's boyhood neighborhood of the early 1700s includes Marshall Street, built by a local well-to-do but lazy mill owner.

The oldest extant home on Beacon Hill is a two-family wooden residence built by free African Americans- one the soldier who led a Black militia company responsible for protecting Boston businesses from British Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.

Park Street Church, once the tallest building in America, has a strong abolitionist tradition of preaching with fire and brimstone. The song "America" was first sung from its steps. Billy Graham began his first crusade here in 1949.

Exploring Boston's historical sites, famous & unknown people vital to America's foundations.

Salem's Haunted History Night Time Walking Tour

Orange orb at the First Church (fourth location)

Image of a man standing in The Burying Point

Strange mist hovers in the garden of the Ropes Mansion

Anomaly rising in front of the window at the Ropes Mansion

Anomaly at Howard St. Cemetery where an accused witch was crushed to death in 1692.

Several orbs hovering at the John Ward House

Strange wisp rises in front of the window of Ropes Mansion.

Hear stories of accidental death, murder and paranormal activity

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Boston Concierge Half Day Tour

More than just witch history

Salem half day tour

Private tour of Salem - The Land of Witches and Pirates

Visit Salem, MA - Pirate Museum, Witches Wax Museum, Historical Landmarks, Salem Harbor, Downtown Salem

🧙‍♀️ Salem Tour – Land of Witches & Pirates (Private)

Historic Salem: A Journey Through The Ages

The building is the First Church (fourth structure). Second structure was on these grounds also

Charter Street Cemetery. Oldest in Salem. Perhaps 3rd oldest in nation

Ropes Mansion (1727). Owned by five generations and used for movie Hocus Pocus

Hamilton Hall. Built by Samuel McIntire and named for Alexander Hamilton

Sign on the First Church (fourth location)

A comprehensive tour of Salem's nearly 400 year history

3 Lighthouses, Lobster and a Castle

Lighthouses and Lobster

Elias Hasket Derby and Elizabeth Crowninshield Derby House (1761)

An exclusive tour of Salem at its peak

1799 in Salem, Massachusetts

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Full Day Boston Highlights Experience

Entrance fees for Rebecca Nurse Homestead and the Witch House (Judge Jonathan Curwen House).

White oak tree that Mary Easty knew on her family farm in Topsfield

Home of Rebecca Nurse, Mary Easty's sister

Executed for Witchcraft in 1692

In Search of Mary Easty

Salem and the Sea: Exploring the History of a Great Port

The House of the Seven Gables, built in 1668 by Capt. John Turner just above his wharf on Salem's waterfront. Three generations of John Turners lived here, as they sent voyages around the Atlantic rim in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Capt. Richard Derby House was built around 1738 for a prominent Salem sea captain and ship owner who was the progenitor of the very wealthy Derby family of Salem. The Derby Wharf is in sight of this house so that Capt. Derby could watch his own commercial activity and observe all vessels entering the harbor.

East India Marine Hall was erected in 1824-25 by a group "of persons who have actually navigated the seas beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, as masters or supercargoes of vessels belonging to Salem." The ground floor housed the offices of the Asiatic Bank and Oriental Insurance Company. Above was the massive exhibition space that showed the relics and curiosities collected by Salem's ship captains that are still the core of the Peabody Essex Museum.

The Penn Townsend House built in 1771 across Turner Street from the House of the Seven Gables shows that great merchants and ship captains lived in close proximity to lesser folk on whose services and labor they depended. This modest dwelling is the kind of building where sailor's widows kept boarding houses for mariners awaiting their next voyage.

An exclusive maritime tour of Salem, Massachusetts

Witch history and lots more

Tour of the House of the Seven Gables and Hawthorne's Birthplace.

Witch House, built before 1675, where the accused were interrogated in 1692 by Judge John Hathorne, great-great grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

U. S. Custom House, where Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote parts of The Scarlet letter.

Home of Hawthorne's aunt, Rachel Hathorne Forrester.

The House of the Seven Gables, the setting for Hawthorne's famous novel

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