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Salem after the trials
1790
Salem, Massachusetts
Jesse Lee Tucker · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The witch panic is the famous century. The next one made Salem one of the richest ports in America, trading to Sumatra and China so early that some Asian merchants believed Salem was a sovereign country. Hawthorne worked in the custom house and set The Scarlet Letter's frame there.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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