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Salem, WV - History
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Welcome to the Salem Home page. The Salem Home page provides as much information as possible on Salem. Knowing Salem’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Salem’s Home page, you will also find Salem’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Salem has a population of 1862. 56.4% of Salem’s inhabitants are Male, and 43.6 are female. 27.7% of Salem is married and 79.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $54,711, and the average rent is $576. Household median income in Salem is $40,114, and the individual median income is $16,422. Salem’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.4%), Black(4.7%), Multiple(4%), Hispanic(1.2%), Other(0.5%), Pacific(0.3%), Asian(0.1%).
Salem was settled in the summer of 1790 — as "New Salem" — by forty Seventh Day Baptist families from Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Notable settler family names included Lippincott, Maxson, Babcock, Plumer, Davis, and Fitz-Randolph. New Salem was formally chartered and made a town by legislative enactment of the Virginia Assembly on December 19, 1794, on land owned by Samuel Fitz Randolph.
John Patterson, John Davis, Samuel Lippincott, James Davis, Zebulon Maxon, Benjamin Thorp, Thomas Clayton, William Davis, Jacob Davis, George Jackson and John Haymond were appointed its first trustees. By the 1870s, the town was more frequently being called "Salem" than "New Salem", as the separation of West Virginia from Virginia in 1863 had diminished the need to distinguish it from the town named Salem near Roanoke.
The US Postal Service made the change official in March 1884. Salem was incorporated by the state of West Virginia on 25 February 1905. As late as 1870, Charles A. Burdick came to town as a Seventh Day Baptist missionary, feeling the need for an educational institution in the area, opened a school, though it operated for only two semesters.
In 1888, the Eastern Seventh Day Baptist Association provided for the construction of the Salem Academy, which later became a college in 1890, existing to this day.Salem has a history of large fires. The same full city block has burned down twice in the city's history. The north side of Main Street downtown burned once in 1901 and again on March 2, 2006.
The more recent fire burned the old city bank building, several store fronts, and several residences; five structures in all were damaged. The fire was determined to have been started by a hot water tank in an apartment. The fire departments' ability to put out the blaze was hampered by a limited city water supply; they were forced to draw water from the nearby creek.The Salem College Administration Building and Salem Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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