Joshua Ward House
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Joshua Ward House is a historic house at 148 Washington Street in Salem, Massachusetts
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The Federal style house was built in 1784 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It was built on the same site as the former home of Sheriff George Corwin
, famously associated with the Salem Witch Trials
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Salem, Massachusetts
Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...
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The Federal style house was built in 1784 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It was built on the same site as the former home of Sheriff George Corwin
George Corwin
George Corwin was the High Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. He signed warrants for the arrest and execution of those condemned of witchcraft...
, famously associated with the Salem Witch Trials
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693...
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