We have traced a path through a relentless loop of disaster and architectural stubbornness. Buildings here have a habit of burning down and springing back up, largely because early planners treated fire safety as merely a polite suggestion. Yet out of those ashes rose something vastly superior. It was often the fierce intellect and sheer willpower of Salem's women that funded the halls of learning and shaped the civic spine of this town. When flames threatened to erase history, they simply engineered a better future.
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