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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 927 MASS. AVENUE <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 23 g <br /> BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> According to E.B. Worthen,this was the home of Harrison Pierce(1813-1894),his wife Harriet and son Harry. Census <br /> records in 1860 list Harrison as a farmer but later became a town laborer. Harry worked for various local milkmen. The <br /> house is labeled as being owned by the H.Pierce Estate on the 1906 map. <br /> [Note: the 1853 map has a house belonging to H.Pierce shown on the opposite side of the road. Could this be an error?] <br /> About 1924 this was the home of Byron and Katherine Russell. He was a blacksmith. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census,various dates. <br /> Worthen,Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998,p. 44. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> June 2009 <br />