Ward Estate, circa 1860s, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)

Ward Estate, circa 1860s, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)

Ward Estate, circa 1860s, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.) ; Historic buildings -- Massachusetts. Ward, Artemas, Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution ; Ward family -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)

Ward estate circa 1860s. The horse in the foreground of





the photograph belonged to Charles Ward who was killed in the Civil





War. 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 when





it was built, until it was left to Harvard University in 1925 by





Artemas Ward, great grandson of the first Commander-in-Chief of the American





Revolution, General Artemas Ward of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

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Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)

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