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Faulkner Homestead Historic Marker

Location: 5 High Street, South Acton
Faulkner Homestead Historical Marker
This cast iron marker was erected in 1930 as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission’s project commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  This is one of three tercentenary signs that mark sites in Acton. The wording on this marker includes errors, such as the date given for the 1707 Jones-Faulkner House.

The marker reads:

FAULKNER HOMESTEAD
SITE OF GARRISON HOUSE BUILT BEFORE 1700.  OPPOSITE, AMMI RUHAMAH FAULKNER HAD HIS SAW AND GRIST MILL AND WOOLEN MILL IN 1735.
Faulkner House

For further information about the property, see:
  • Records of the Iron Work Farm
  • Faulkner Homestead information, Iron Work Farm
  • Mass. Historical Commission Historic Properties Inventory Form ACT.490: Faulkner Homestead

For further information about the markers, see:
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot.  Historical Markers Erected by Mass. Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission.  Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1930.  (See page 9 for Acton's markers.)
  • Lampe, Amy.  "Acton Roads Lead to Historic and Memorial Markers," Assabet Valley Beacon, 16 August 1973

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