From the January 17, 2016, Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel "Researchers Confirm site of hangings for Salem witch trials" by Mark Pratt and Rodrique Ngowi, AP.
19 innocent people were slain there during 1692 hysteria.
Salem, Massachusetts.
A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st century archaeological techniques has confirmed the exact spot where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem Witch trials.
The site is known as Proctor's Ledge and is in a small, city-owned plot of woods between two residential streets and behind a Walgreens pharmacy.
Historian Sidney Perley had determined Proctor's Ledge as the site nearly a century ago by using historical documents, but his findings were lost to time.
The current research, known as the Gallows Hill project set out to locate the site for sure.
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