Pioneer Village

 

Salem's Pioneer Village was built in 1930 to mark the tercentennial of Massachusetts. It is America's first living history museum. 

 

The village sits on three acres of land and contains various examples of colonial architecture: dugouts, wigwams, thatched roof cottages, and the Governor's Faire House. Culinary and medicinal gardens and a blacksmith shop further interpret early 17th-century colonial life.

Pioneer Village is nestled between the woods and the ocean, a ten minute drive from downtown, in Salem's Forest River Park.

 It was also a filming site of Hocus Pocus!