description- – Eddie Dean's Sawmill at the Ward homestead on Main Street, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, circa 1917. This early tractor with its ironwheels supplied power for the sawmill. George Banister of Boylston ran the sawmill at the time of this photograph. Oscar Swenson worked forGeorge Bannister.
subjectcollectiondatepublishercreatorcontributor- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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description- – Ward estate circa 1860s. The horse in the foreground of the photograph belonged to Charles Ward who was killed in the CivilWar. Thomas W. Ward went south to retrieve his son's body and returned to Shrewsbury with the horse. This was a working farm from the 1720s whenit was built, until it was left to Harvard University in 1925 by Artemas Ward, great grandson of the first Commander-in-Chief of the AmericanRevolution, General Artemas Ward of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
subjectcollectionpublishercontributor- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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