Forest River Park

In 1907, Maj. John Spencer acquired a 25-acre parcel on the northern side of the Forest River and later sold it to the City of Salem for a park. Over the next decade, the Park Dept. would build a swimming pool and football and baseball fields on the site and would use it for a city nursery. In 1929, Salem built Pioneer Village, a re-creation of what the town would have looked like when John Winthrop arrived in 1630.

• It's the second most heavily used park, behind Salem Willows.
• The salt-water pool was added in 1919.