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Home Site of Deacon Ephraim Hosmer and Frank Roscoe Knowlton

Location: Knowlton Drive, (east side, not far from intersection with Massachusetts Avenue, Route 111)
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The stone reads:
HOSMER
James Hosmer came to Acton to live circa 1635.  This farm was settled by Deacon Ephraim Hosmer, who built the original salt box house around 1745.  Abner Hosmer, was a member of the acton Militia, and the uncle of Ephraim's wife, Sara Hosmer.  He is buried under the monument at Acton Center, having been killed by the first volley at the Old North Bridge in Concord, April 19, 1775. "The Shot heard round the world."
KNOWLTON
Having survived the Civil War, Frank Rosco Knowlton, and his family, moved to West Acton from Swanville, Maine.  He first sold, and delivered gun powder through the White Mountains.  Next, starting in a small way, he went into the cigar manufacturing business housed in a four story factory with an elevator.  He hired 30 employees and produced five brands of his own, plus several for other large concerns.
On May 15, 1879, Frank married Emma Hosmer and lived here in the Hosmer Homestead, which he purchased from Emma's Father, Silas Hosmer.  Six children were born in this house: Roscoe, Jessie, Helen, Harold, Evelyn, and Ruth.

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