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<h3 id="gmail-Derby_Tunnels" ><a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Smuggling_tunnel.html">https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Smuggling_tunnel.html</a></h3>

<h3 id="gmail-Derby_Tunnels" >Derby Tunnels</h3>

Elias Hasket Derby Jr.

In 1801, Elias Hasket Derby, Jr. extended the tunnel system in <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Salem%2C_Massachusetts.html" title="Salem, Massachusetts" id="gmail-mwLw">Salem, Massachusetts</a>, in response to <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson.html" title="Thomas Jefferson" id="gmail-mwMA">Thomas Jefferson</a>'s new custom duties.<sup id="gmail-cite_ref-1"><a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Smuggling_tunnel.html#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> Jefferson had ordered the local militias to help collect these duties, but in Salem, Derby had hired the local militia (later the United States's first National Guard unit), the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/101st_Engineer_Battalion_(United_States).html" title="101st Engineer Battalion (United States)" id="gmail-mwMQ">101st Engineer Battalion</a>, to dig the tunnels and hide the spoils in five ponds in the local common.

This extension was funded by the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Salem_Common_Historic_District(Salem%2C_Massachusetts).html" title="Salem Common Historic District (Salem, Massachusetts)" id="gmail-mwMw">Salem Common</a> Improvement Fund, whose members included Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Joseph_Story.html" title="Joseph Story" id="gmail-mwNA">Joseph Story</a>; Secretary of the Navy <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Benjamin_Crowninshield.html" title="Benjamin Crowninshield" id="gmail-mwNQ">Benjamin Crowninshield</a>; Congressman <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Jacob_Crowninshield.html" title="Jacob Crowninshield" id="gmail-mwNg">Jacob Crowninshield</a>; Senator <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Nathaniel_Silsbee.html" title="Nathaniel Silsbee" id="gmail-mwNw">Nathaniel Silsbee</a>; lawyer <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Daniel_Webster.html" title="Daniel Webster" id="gmail-mwOA">Daniel Webster</a>; Senator <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/William_Gray(Massachusetts).html" title="William Gray (Massachusetts)" id="gmail-mwOQ">William Gray</a>; Senator <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Benjamin_Pickman%2C_Jr..html" title="Benjamin Pickman, Jr." id="gmail-mwOg">Benjamin Pickman, Jr.</a>; and the London banker and <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase.html" title="JPMorgan Chase" id="gmail-mwOw">JPMorgan Chase</a> founder <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Joseph_Peabody.html" title="Joseph Peabody" id="gmail-mwPA">Joseph Peabody</a>.

The head of customs, Joseph Hiller, was also a member, and Benjamin Crowninshield was head of customs for <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Marblehead%2C_Massachusetts.html" title="Marblehead, Massachusetts" id="gmail-mwPg">Marblehead, Massachusetts</a>. Presidents <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/George_Washington.html" title="George Washington" id="gmail-mwPw">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/James_Monroe.html" title="James Monroe" id="gmail-mwQA">James Monroe</a>, and <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams.html" title="John Quincy Adams" id="gmail-mwQQ">John Quincy Adams</a> might have walked in the tunnels as well. At a minimum, they visited many homes that were connected to the tunnels. John Quincy Adams dedicated the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/East_India_Marine_Hall.html" title="East India Marine Hall" id="gmail-mwQg">East India Marine Hall</a>, which had four sub-basements and was connected to the tunnels.

The <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/East_India_Marine_Society.html" title="East India Marine Society" id="gmail-mwRA">East India Marine Society</a> Museum had many locations in town that were connected to the tunnels. The society became the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Peabody_Academy_of_Science.html" title="Peabody Academy of Science" id="gmail-mwRQ">Peabody Academy of Science</a> with the support of Joseph Peabody, and the tunnels became part of the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Peabody_Essex_Museum.html" title="Peabody Essex Museum" id="gmail-mwRg">Peabody Essex Museum</a> after it merged with the Essex Institute in 1992.

The Essex Institute — established by <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Edward_Augustus_Holyoke.html" title="Edward Augustus Holyoke" id="gmail-mwSA">Edward Augustus Holyoke</a>, founder of the <i id="gmail-mwSQ"><a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/The_New_England_Journal_of_Medicine.html" title="The New England Journal of Medicine" id="gmail-mwSg">The New England Journal of Medicine</a> —</i> was also connected to the tunnels.

The tunnels were used by <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond.html" title="Charles Lenox Remond" id="gmail-mwTA">Charles Lenox Remond</a> to move runaway slaves along the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Underground_Railroad.html" title="Underground Railroad" id="gmail-mwTQ">Underground Railroad</a>. They were also used to transport illicit liquor during the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Prohibition.html" title="Prohibition" id="gmail-mwUA">Prohibition Era</a>. The tunnels extended three miles from the town's wharfs to an underground train station built by the superintendent of the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Eastern_Railroad_(Massachusetts).html" title="Eastern Railroad (Massachusetts)" id="gmail-mwUw">Eastern Railroad</a>, John Kinsman. Along the way, they connected several homes, stores, and banks. Two large brick homes were built at fixed distances to conceal the purchases of bricks needed for the tunnel. Many large churches were made out of bricks for the same reason.

Tunnel under the first church in the country

Charles Bulfinch

<a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Samuel_McIntire.html" title="Samuel McIntire" id="gmail-mwXg">Samuel McIntire</a> fashioned the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Federal_architecture.html" title="Federal architecture" id="gmail-mwXw">Federal style of architecture</a> after <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Charles_Bulfinch.html" title="Charles Bulfinch" id="gmail-mwYA">Charles Bulfinch</a>, who would become the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Architect_of_the_Capitol.html" title="Architect of the Capitol" id="gmail-mwYQ">architect of the Capitol</a>. In both of these men's designs, homes had exterior chimneys that connected to the tunnels through watertight fireplace arches.

These arches and their flues provided not only a dry entrance to the homes but also a draw system up through the chimneys for the tunnels. Bulfinch connected his Looby Asylum, Essex Bank Building, and Old Town Hall to the tunnels in Salem. He would also build tunnels from the State House in Boston and the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/National_Capitol.html" title="National Capitol" id="gmail-mwYw">National Capitol</a>.<sup id="gmail-cite_ref-2"><a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Smuggling_tunnel.html#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></p>

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<b id="gmail-mwAw">Salem Common Historic District</b> is a historic district bounded roughly by Bridge, Derby, and St. Peter's streets, as well as Collins Cove in <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Salem%2C_Massachusetts.html" title="Salem, Massachusetts" id="gmail-mwBA">Salem, Massachusetts</a>, <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/United_States.html" title="United States" id="gmail-mwBQ">United States</a>.

The Common was established in 1667, and during this period it was partially a <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Swamp.html" title="Swamp" id="gmail-mwBw">swamp</a>. Until 1800, there was no enclosing fence, allowing livestock to freely roam across it. The current wrought iron fence around the Common was built in 1850 and has undergone restoration.

The white archway that stands near the north entrance was originally a design by <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Samuel_McIntire.html" title="Samuel McIntire" id="gmail-mwCQ">Samuel McIntire</a>, but it had to be removed because of its condition. The current archway is a replica of the original that was made in 1976.<sup id="gmail-cite_ref-2"><a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Salem_Common_Historic_District_(Salem%2C_Massachusetts).html#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>

The district was added to the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places.html" title="National Register of Historic Places" id="gmail-mwCw">National Register of Historic Places</a> on May 12, 1976, and further expanded on June 27, 2002.<sup id="gmail-cite_ref-nris_1-2"><a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Salem_Common_Historic_District_(Salem%2C_Massachusetts).html#cite_note-nris-1">[1]</a></sup> The district boundaries include the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Essex_Institute_Historic_District.html" title="Essex Institute Historic District" id="gmail-mwDA">Essex Institute Historic District</a>, a cluster of buildings along Essex and Brown streets owned by the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Peabody_Essex_Museum.html" title="Peabody Essex Museum" id="gmail-mwDQ">Peabody Essex Museum</a>.

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<h2 id="gmail-Salem_as_the_Birthplace_of_the_National_Guard" >Salem as the Birthplace of the National Guard</h2>

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Map of <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Salem%2C_Massachusetts.html" title="Salem, Massachusetts" id="gmail-mwKg">Salem, Massachusetts</a> in 1820.

In 1637, the first muster on Salem Common took place where for the first time, a regiment of militia drilled for the common defense of a multi-community area,<sup id="gmail-cite_ref-5"><a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Salem_Common_Historic_District_(Salem%2C_Massachusetts).html#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> thus laying the foundation for what became the <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Army_National_Guard.html" title="Army National Guard" id="gmail-mwLA">Army National Guard</a>.</p>

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