Excerpt from Souvenir of Old Home Week: Georgetown, Massachusetts, July 25-28, 1909 All that remains to mark the location of many of the old houses is a few lilac bushes, a patch of field lilies, or a few gnarled apple-trees, and in some cases an old cellar with a well near by. In 1795 there were sixty houses in the New Rowley parish. And these were scattered about on farms of from ten to 125 acres, and all but two or three of these farmhouses and other buildings were of the common flax color, or the color of wood exposed to the weather. The two or three exceptions were painted the durable red of Spanish brown. The center school house on Central Street was painted red with white trim mings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.