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The Munroes’ Neighborhood
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Martha Wilkins1 locates the
homestead of Joseph Munroe “on
site now (ca. 1941) occupied by home of Mr & Mrs C. E.
Crossland, Westford St”.
Lapham2 says that by his time (1970)
the spot was occupied by “the home of Mrs. Alexander
Johnson on Westford Street.”
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This is 566 Westford Street, which Ruth Wilkins3
identifies as the Johnson place. If she’s right, this is
the location of the original Munroe homestead in Billerica.
1Martha Fifield Wilkins, Old Houses and
Families of Carlisle, Mass. With Contributions and Compilations by Old
Inhabitants and Other Interested Persons; Illustrated with 495
photographs (Unpublished. Presented to the Gleason Public Library in
1941), p. 47.
2Donald A. Lapham, Carlisle, Composite Community
(Undated memoir, privately published; NEHGS copy bears author’s
autograph and date of Nov. 14, 1970), p. 56.
3Ruth Chamberlin Wilkins, Carlisle, Its History and
Heritage The Carlisle Historical Society, Inc. (Carlisle:1976),
p. 69.