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The Old Parker Tavern—1680

Middlesex County · dedicated 1930 · Route 28 and Washington Street, Reading · location approximate

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One-eighth of a mile to "the simple home of an ordinary man, not wealthy, not particularly distinguished, but a type of the God-fearing yeomanry. . . . As Ephraim Parker left it, it remains today an unchanged relic in the midst of a changing world."

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

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

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