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Arts & Humanities > Colonial & Early American How has Salem, Massachusetts memorialized executed witches?

Salem, Massachusetts, the witch capital of America, has memorialized executed witches by constructing a granite wall, with engraved quotes from some of the victims, near Old Burying Point on Charter street. This cemetery contains the graves of Mayflower pilgrims as well as some of the participants in the witch hunts of 1692. In February 1692, Judges Jonathan Corwin and John Hawthorne (great-grandfather to author Nathaniel Hawthorne) traveled to the nearby Salem Village (now the town of Danvers) to examine three women accused by locals of being witches. These women were the homeless beggar ...

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