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7. Original owner (if known) <br /> Original use <br /> Subsequent uses (if any) and dates <br /> 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) <br /> Aboriginal Conservation Recreation <br /> Agricultural Education Religion <br /> Architectural Exploration/ Science/ <br /> The Arts settlement invention <br /> Commerce Industry Social/ <br /> Communication military Humanitarian <br /> Community development Political . Transportation <br /> 9. Historical Significance (include explanation of themes checked above) <br /> Descrip. cont. Rear addition w. field stone foundation (2 chimneys in this section of <br /> house) Front entrance porch 4 square columns, 4-pilasters on facade.. grk. door, . side <br /> lights, heavy entablature. <br /> Historical significance <br /> Home of Levi Harrington, an eyewitness to the battle on April 19, 1775. <br /> The Harrington family was always active in town politics. The last Harrington <br /> descendant, May S. Harrington, died in this house in 1946. <br /> See correspondence in files of the Lexington Historical Society. <br /> At one time, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the <br /> Gershom Swan family and the George D. Harrington family occupied the house <br /> simultaneously, the Swans living in the west portion and the Harringtons in <br /> the east. (See also Hudson, Volume II.) The two families were related. <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, 1984 <br /> 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, <br /> early maps, etc.) <br /> Piper, Fred S. , Lexington - Birth place of American Liberty. A Handbook <br /> pub. by Lex. Hist. Soc. , 1971 <br />