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Salem is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 28,112 at the 2000 census. Salem is a marketing and distributing center, with several colleges, recreation attractions and a large shopping mall, the Mall at Rockingham Park.

Other features of Salem's tourism history include Rockingham Park Race Track, the first horse race track in New England, and "America's Stonehenge", a curiosity (formerly "Mystery Hill.") A recent attraction in town is the Icenter, a skating arena. The Church of Spiritual Life, a Spiritualist Church, meets at the town Masonic Hall.

Starting in the 1950s, Salem developed rapidly as part of Greater Boston, with suburban-style residential neighborhoods and a long strip of commercial development along NH Route 28. Recent (c. 2006) commercial construction has continued to focus on Route 28, as well as on the commercial zone off Exit 2 on Interstate 93.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 67.0 km² (25.9 mi²). 64.0 km² (24.7 mi²) of it is land and 3.0 km² (1.2 mi²) of it is water, comprising 4.49% of the town. Salem is drained by the Spicket River and Policy Brook. Canobie Lake is on the western boundary, Arlington Mill Reservoir is in the north, and World End Pond is in the southeast. The highest point in Salem is Gordons Hill (380 feet / 116 meters above sea level), along the town's western border.

Rockingham Park Race Track, located in Salem, as mentioned in the film The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, was central to that film's plot.

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