2002: Scotland (in Lexington) |
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The day before Patriots’ Day, I drove up to the Lexington-Woburn boundary (where, of course, Woburn Street in Lexington transmutes suddenly to Lexington Street in Woburn) where eighth great-grandpa William Munroe built his farmhouse around 1660, when he married Martha. Naming the estate “Scotland,” after the homeland to which he never returned after being captured at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
Followed street-maps to approach the site from behind. I’ve speculated, without any firm basis, that William and his sons may have moved these very stones to make a wall around a newly-cleared field. The area the Munroes farmed now includes a piece of “Conservation” land called (for reasons I haven’t yet learned) “Shaker Glen.” |
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