Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
For three centuries nobody knew exactly where the Salem witch trial executions happened. Gallows Hill was assumed, but in 2016 a team of historians called the Gallows Hill Project settled it using deeds, court records and a 1692 eyewitness account: a low rocky ledge just off Proctor Street, overlooked by houses today. A memorial was dedicated there in 2017. Get the facts right when you visit: nineteen people were hanged here, not burned, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death under stones for refusing to plead. The Salem Witch Trials Memorial downtown names all twenty.
Proctor’s Ledge, Salem (Essex County). Source: The real, recently confirmed execution site, with a public memorial. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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