Last weekend a historic marker commemorating the immigration of African Americans from Salem to Liberia was unveiled at the corner of Liberia and Free Streets in the Happy Hill community.
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Last week, students from Walkertown High School ditched their smart phones, laptops, iPads, and other high tech devices, and spent a night in Old Salem’s Hidden Town.
Old Salem Museums & Gardens visitors and staff are urged to keep their hands clean during flu season.
The last in a three part series on Old Salem’s Hidden Town Project, which explores the lives of enslaved African Americans in Salem.
It is impossible to tell the Salem’s story without the narratives of enslaved blacks and freemen like Peter Oliver, Johann Samuel and countless others.
The first in a three part series on Old Salem’s Hidden Town project that exposes the history of enslaved African Americans in the town of Salem.
Photo by Donna Rogers The Burke Singers and their founder, Maestra D’Walla Simmons-Burke, show the audience how to keep the
Peter Oliver’s dramatic story of being a local Moravian slave who learned pottery and purchased his own freedom is still
(pictured above: New citizens take part in the local naturalization ceremony on July 4.) Old Salem’s Independence Day naturalization ceremony
Old Salem hosts Fourth of July nationalization ceremony (pictured above: The new citizens take their oath on July 4th.) Old Salem
