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The Colonel Hutchinson House

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $4.95
Original Price: $8.95

Stock #:285379
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Danvers
State: Massachusetts (MA)
County: Essex
Publisher: Hugh C. Leighton Co.
Postmark: 1911 Jan-30
Postmark City: Danvers
Postmark State: MA
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The home of Col. Isaac Hutchinson, who commanded the Danvers company of minutemen that marched from Danvers to Lexington and Concord April 19, 1776. On the night of April 20, 1776, the heroes who were killed in battle were brought to this house and placed on the kitchen floor, wrapped in their bloody winding-sheets. The house stood until 1889, when it was demolished

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