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Best Place to Start
The best place to begin your historical tour of Downtown Salem is at the interpretive panel inside the Salem Conference Center on the stair landing at the Ferry and Commercial Street corner where you can look out at the City’s beginnings. The tour suggested in this brochure takes you through time to experience some of the significant sites that help tell the fascinating story of Salem’s history. It begins in 1847 and continues through the present day.
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“Once upon a time, before shopping malls and giant parking lots, Salem families could find everything they wanted within a few downtown blocks; they could buy furniture, appliances, hardware, and nursery plants for their homes; keep professional appointments or visit the bank; go to a movie, attend church, or watch a parade; have a soda at the counter of a drug store or dine in one of several restaurants; shop in a variety of small retail establishments answering every household need. People of modest means lived downtown on the second floors above the shops, and the more prosperous walked the few blocks from their fine homes. It was, in fact, the model of current Urban Redevelopment. The following self-guided walk will recall that Salem - and typical American towns - years ago”.
-- Virginia Green |
Acknowledgements
 The Salem Downtown Historic Walking Tour Brochure is funded by a Preserve America Grant administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
Preserve America is an initiative that encourages and supports cultural, economic and educational benefi ts of historic preservation and heritage tourism.
We thank all of our supporters and partners:
For more information about historical attractions:
Travel Salem
181 High Street NE
Salem, OR 97301
503-581-4325
1-800-874-7012
www.TravelSalem.com
Salem Community Development Department, Salem Civic Center
555 Liberty Street SE, Room 305
Salem, OR 97301
(503) 588-6173
SHINE
http://salem-heritage-network.blogspot.com/
Oregon Historical Photograph Collections, Salem Public Library, Salem Oregon
http://photos.salemhistory.net/
SalemHistory
http://www.salemhistory.net/
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