Record 82/301 See Catalog Record Lantern Slides Return to Exhibit Page Return to Home Page Search This Exhibit Description  Tap-room at Buckman Tavern, December 1888 "Fire place side-door is to the "old" kitchen. Tavern built about 1705. License issued to John Muzzey to keep a "public house" 1713. Contents auctioned off November 9, 1912. Purchased by Town in 1913. Town paid $30,000. Lexington Historical Society raised $10,000. Total $40,000. Street widened 1927. Lady is Mrs. Caleb Stetson (Julia Ann Merriam), died August 1889."

Lantern Slides -Buckman Tavern, tap room -Cary Memorial Library 2011. All rights reserved. Buckman Tavern, tap room 001\Worthenslide171.JPG The Edwin B. Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library

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