The information presented on this page was researched and written by third grade students.

A Look at New Salem Now

• Daniel Shays' Highway, built in 1935, is a major road that goes through New Salem
• Route 202 is part of Daniel Shays' Highway
• Daniel Shays' Highway was named after Captain Daniel Shays

Town Common

• The New Salem clock tower use to be a school
• New Salem residents celebrate Old Home Day on the Town Common
• The present playground was there before the Quabbin Reservoir was created
• New Salem has less land now than in the early 1900's
• Prescott Peninsula was part of New Salem
• New Salem land was taken for the Quabbin watershed

• Was a private school for grades 7-12 in the 1890's
• It is now owned by a private party

• The Academy was the New Salem High School for many years and a private preparatory school
• The Academy was built in 1795
• It stopped being a school in 1968
• The Academy owns three other buildings

• The Meeting House was a church
• People decide things there
• Now plays and social events are held there
• It is a famous building in New Salem

• Built in 1939
• Town social events are held there
• The polls are at Town Hall

• This house was originally in Enfield
• It had no electricity or hot running water

• The house was moved to Wendell Road

• When you go sapping for maple syrup you go to the sugar maple trees.
• I learned about maple syruping from Janet. She lives down the street from me in New Salem.
• The maple trees have silver buckets hooked into them. It is easy to get the buckets off of the trees. We take the buckets to the tractor which has a giant silver bucket and pour the sap into the giant bucket even if it has twigs or ice in it. The giant bucket has a top with 10 or 20 holes in it. The people take out the twigs and ice if it has any in it. We bring the big silver bucket to the sap house and boil it down.
• It takes a long time to boil it down. Janet taught me that yellow sap has pollution in it. If the sap is blue it is good.
• At the end of March and the beginning of April we are done sapping. We gather all of the taps and buckets and bring them to the sap house for storing.