Marblehead Walking Tour Characters of Marblehead's Past
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1.5 hours
- Marblehead's original cookies: The Joe Frogger
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
Join a born and raised local storyteller for a 90-minute, easy paced walking tour through Old Town Marblehead, where a small group threads together seven storytelling stops drawn entirely from town records and local lore. Along the way, you'll meet a privateer, a witch, a wizard, and the man who...
- Duration 1 Hour and 30 Minutes
- Group Tour
- Max 10 people in the group
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Stop 1 — Mugford Street (Pass by, ~10 min) Captain Mugford & the Golden Cod. The street named for one of Marblehead's youngest heroes — a privateer who outsmarted the British Navy and was killed at sea two weeks later. We also tell the story of the Golden Cod, the...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
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Stop 2 — Reds Pond / Old Burial Hill (Stop and explore, ~15 min) Wizard Diamond & Mammy Redd. On the hill where 600 Revolutionary sailors lie buried, two of Marblehead's most famous characters: Edward "Wizard" Diamond, who summoned storms by name, and Wilmot "Mammy" Redd, the village's only victim...
- Duration 15 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 3
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Stop 3 — Gas House Beach / Little Harbor (Stop and explore, ~10 min) The man who came in a barrel. This is where Marblehead actually began. John Doliber, sick of Salem's Puritan strictness, reportedly floated across the harbor inside a wooden hogshead barrel and lived in it before settling...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 4
Fort Sewall
Stop 4 — Fort Beach (Pass by, ~10 min) The Sea Serpent of 1817. Off Tinkers Island, just offshore, hundreds of people once watched a 130-foot creature swim past. Fourteen humps, dark brown, a white mouth. The Sea Serpent Hunting Club chased it for over a century. The last reported...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 5
Fort Sewall
Stop 5 — The Barnacle / Screaming Woman Beach (Stop and explore, ~15 min) Pirates, tunnels & a screaming ghost. Marblehead is honeycombed with old pirate tunnels — the basements of historic homes still show their walled-up openings. The caves under nearby Fort Sewall once hid rum, weapons, and fugitives....
- Duration 15 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
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Stop 6 — Washington Street (Pass by, ~10 min) Captain Foster's stolen fortune & the Jeremiah Lee Mansion. At Putnam's Tavern (long gone), locals once traded the story of Captain Foster — whose Spanish doubloons were swapped for iron in a Salem bank vault. Across the way: the 1768 Jeremiah...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
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Stop 7 — The Lafayette House (Stop and explore, ~8 min) The House With No Corner. We end at the famous "House With No Corner" — and the corner that isn't there. Three theories: that it was sliced off so General Lafayette's carriage could make the turn in 1824; that...
- Duration 8 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
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