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Commission documents 1884 deed; East Main name/numbering prompts further research on historic house signs
Summary
Commission members reported new deed research showing a house was built and sold in 1884, clarifying the historical record for East Main Street properties and prompting further verification before finalizing a historic-house sign.
Members of the Southborough Historical Commission reported new deed research at the Sept. 15 meeting that clarifies when one East Main Street house was built and why MACRIS (the state inventory) identified adjacent houses with similar names.
Commission Chair Kevin Miller said registry records show Charles B. Wilson purchased a parcel May 15, 1884, built a new house on it that summer, and sold it to Eunice Newton on Aug. 1, 1884. “It says … ‘a new dwelling house thereon standing.’ Bingo. New house,” Miller said, presenting the deed text and a Historic Commission recommendation to date…
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