Old Burial Hill

Old Burial Hill in Marblehead is a hilltop cemetery in use since 1638 and filled with weathered colonial gravestones. It is tied to the story of Wilmot Redd, a Marblehead woman hanged for witchcraft on September 22, 1692, one of nineteen people executed in the Salem trials, and the town dedicated a memorial to her in 1998. Local tradition says her spirit lingers in the town and that a curse was spoken against it, though there is no historical record of such words. The tale is best taken as local legend about a woman wrongly condemned.