The Old Parker Tavern—1680

The Old Parker Tavern—1680 is a Massachusetts historical marker in Reading, 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1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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Historical maps covering this location

1891 · Massachusetts. Atlas Plate No. 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1918 · Lawrence, Massachusetts (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1920 · Rand McNally official 1920 auto trails map (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1930 · Motor routes that intersect the Bay Circuit (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1944 · Reading, Massachusetts (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Motor routes that intersect the Bay Circuit, 1930, covering the location of The Old Parker Tavern—1680, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Motor routes that intersect the Bay Circuit, 1930, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. 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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