. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . V05E ESTATE, PROSPECT ST., RESIDENCE OF JOHN RESIDENCE OF MRS. EUGENE T. MILES, BLOSSOM STREET. CHURCHES AND HOMES. 307 either stockaded or garrisoned, and the interiors furnishedwith only the plainest articles of necessary use. After thiscame the one and two story framed farm houses, withtheir enormous stone chimneys and fireplaces, suggestiveof corn bannocks, pumpkin pies and kitchen dances. Thetimbers in these houses, huge beams of the toughest oak,were well calculated to stand the ravages of time, and it istherefore not at all stran
. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . V05E ESTATE, PROSPECT ST., RESIDENCE OF JOHN RESIDENCE OF MRS. EUGENE T. MILES, BLOSSOM STREET. CHURCHES AND HOMES. 307 either stockaded or garrisoned, and the interiors furnishedwith only the plainest articles of necessary use. After thiscame the one and two story framed farm houses, withtheir enormous stone chimneys and fireplaces, suggestiveof corn bannocks, pumpkin pies and kitchen dances. Thetimbers in these houses, huge beams of the toughest oak,were well calculated to stand the ravages of time, and it istherefore not at all strange that some of the first of these oldlandmarks remain with us until the present day. One ofthem was built by Amos Kimball, on the Samuel Halefarm, and is now a portion ot the old house in the rear of the
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