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Article: EARLY DAYS RE-CREATED AGAIN IN SALEM'S PIONEER VILLAGE RESIDENTS WORKED TO RESTORE HISTORIC GEM
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 20, 1987
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SALEM - Pioneer Village was once one of the city's historic
gems -- a re- created community that gave visitors a glimpse of
daily life in Salem as it might have been in 1630.
When it opened 57 years ago, the village was the nation's
first "outdoor museum." Visitors strolled through the rustic
setting near a mill pond, inspecting the thatched cottages and
viewing a reproduction of the Arabella, one of 11 ships that
brought more than 1,000 English immigrants to Salem on June 12,
1630.
For years, Pioneer Village flourished. Then, as it sometimes
happens, things began to crumble. First, termites and weather
gnawed away at the Arabella, and it was no more. Then, the village
itself began ...