For four centuries, women have been involved in every aspect of the development of Naumkeag/Salem.

We've linked these subjects to the key sites or women involved.

Abolition/Anti-slavery
Artists
Assistance to elderly women
Charities
Domestic help
Early settlement
Editors
Employment
Female education
Health care
Historic preservation
House museums
Housing for women
Immigrant acclimation
Industrial education
Libraries - private
Libraries - public
Literary achievements
Military service
Mill workers
Missionaries
Musicians
Native American rights
Nursing
Orphans
Philanthropists
Public education
Religious tolerance
Seamen's aid
Social services
Temperance
Telephone operators
Transcendentalism
Witch Trials of 1692
Woman suffrage
Women in business
   (and cent shops)
Women and newspapers
Women's clubs
Writers