Boys’ School Garden

Salem has long been famous for its gardens.  This garden was located between the Boys’ School and the Girls School inspector’s house.  The small house behind the garden is no longer standing.  Writing in 1845, a contributor to the Carolina Watchman, a Salisbury, North Carolina, newspaper, remarked, “if a great fancy for flowers argues a corresponding taste for all that is beautiful and lovely then the people of Salem are unsurpassed.”