Associated People Charles Lord
Just added to the historic photo archive is this old photograph with the brief note "at Wells–Laudholm" written on the back. Any tractor experts care to speculate on the year and make of that antique? Thanks to Charles for passing along the 2x3" image from which this was cropped.
Once English colonists settled this land, it was home to only four families: Boade, Symonds, Clark, and Lord. Here is an abbreviated list of key historical events leading up to the dedication of the Wells Reserve…
1641 Henry Boade family moves to the site.
1653 King’s Highway is established past Boade’s house to the mouth of the Little River.
1655 Boade sells the property to the Symonds brothers. William Symonds becomes sole owner by the end of 1657.
1677 King Philip’s War. Symonds family flees to nearby garrison. Indians burn the farmhouse to the ground.
Rick Chase from Chase Farm in Wells brought Bud and Bill to plow the Punkinfiddle corn and pumpkin patch, which is doubling in size this year.
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