New Salem

New Salem is the name of several places:

In Canada:

  • New Salem, Nova Scotia

In the United States:

  • New Salem, Menard County, Illinois, (also called Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site) onetime home of Abraham Lincoln
  • New Salem, Pike County, Illinois
  • New Salem Township, McDonough County, Illinois
  • New Salem Township, Pike County, Illinois
  • New Salem, Massachusetts
  • New Salem, Michigan
  • New Salem, North Dakota
  • New Salem, Pennsylvania, a borough in York County
  • New Salem-Buffington, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place in Fayette County

Famous quotes containing the word salem:

    “without luggage or defenses,
    giving up my car keys and my cash,
    keeping only a pack of Salem cigarettes
    the way a child holds on to a toy.
    I signed myself in where a stranger
    puts the inked-in X’s”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)