"It can happen faster than people think," said Aaron Henry, Danvers's director of land use and community services. "If the wrong beam snaps or whatever in that roof, it could be potentially catastrophic for the structure in short order."
The tavern played host to the screams, contortions, and finger-pointing of the witch hunt in Salem Village, as Danvers was originally known," explained Daniel A. Gagnon, author of 'A Salem Witch.'
According to the Salem Witch Museum, Ingersoll's Ordinary is a key piece of witch trials history where the first three women accused of witchcraft in 1692 were supposed to appear.
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