The Sears home
Item Information
- Title:
- The Sears home
- Description:
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This was the home of Rev. Edmund Hamilton Sears, D.D., who wrote the well-known Christmas carol "It Came upon a Midnight Clear." Sears was the seventh pastor of the First Church on the Lancaster Town Green, serving from 1840 to 1847. The house was originally located on the corner of Flagg and Main Streets in South Lancaster. In 1944, it was divided in two and moved to the north side of George Hill Road. The dwellings have since been used to house faculty and students form Atlantic Union College.
- Name on Item:
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Atlantic Union College
- Date:
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[ca. 1850–1944]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Lancaster Historical Society
- Collection (local):
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Photo Archives of the Lancaster (MA) Historical Society
- Subjects:
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Houses
- Places:
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MassachusettsWorcester (county)Lancaster
- Extent:
- 1 photograph
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/02871j194
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