Benjamin Tarr House

Benjamin Tarr House is a Massachusetts historical marker in Rockport, Essex County, dedicated 1930.

South Street, Rockport · location approximate

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Answering a sudden alarm to meet at the house of Lieutenant Benjamin Tarr, grandson of Richard Tarr the first settler, sixty-six men from this village under Captain John Rowe, marched to Charlestown and fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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Historical maps covering this location

1890 · 43. Gloucester sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1918 · Gloucester, Massachusetts (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1920 · Rand McNally official 1920 auto trails map (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1945 · Rockport, Massachusetts (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1947 · Rockport, Massachusetts (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

43. Gloucester sheet, 1890, covering the location of Benjamin Tarr House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — 43. Gloucester sheet, 1890, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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