This is the final week of the Sandwich Historical Society's 2016 exhibit, Old Highways: North Sandwich to the Notch. If you haven't seen the exhibit, be sure to stop in this week Wed. - Sat, 10 - 4. View the Durgin Covered Bridge model complete with oxen team, find out where Millard Fillmore's house was, and see a slide show of houses then and now in the North Sandwich/Mt Israel Road area. And in the theme of this year's exhibit....
On Saturday, October 1 at 9 AM, join the Sandwich Historical Society on an outing along the North Road (now Tappan Trail) that ran from Mt. Israel Road over Guinea Hill to the Sandwich Notch Road. Over 200 years ago this area was settled and then abandoned but remnants of life lived there remain, hidden in the underbrush. Historian Jim Mykland will lead the gentle to moderate walk, arriving back by noon. Park at 711 Mt. Israel Road at the Jonathan Beede House Bed & Breakfast; plan to arrive about 10 minutes early.
On Saturday, October 1 at 9 AM, join the Sandwich Historical Society on an outing along the North Road (now Tappan Trail) that ran from Mt. Israel Road over Guinea Hill to the Sandwich Notch Road. Over 200 years ago this area was settled and then abandoned but remnants of life lived there remain, hidden in the underbrush. Historian Jim Mykland will lead the gentle to moderate walk, arriving back by noon. Park at 711 Mt. Israel Road at the Jonathan Beede House Bed & Breakfast; plan to arrive about 10 minutes early.
After the walk, the Jonathan Beede House B&B will be open for light refreshments with hosts Susan and John Davies and people are encouraged to tour this historic centuries-old house. The place was first settled in 1787 by Jonathan Beede. Timbers from his original small house are said to form the ell of the big house. Three of his daughters were Quaker preachers and Mehitable (1800-1867) was the most remarkable as a scholar, preacher, teacher and anti-slavery advocate. Mehitable and husband, Richard, had the house as a stop on the North Star Route of the Underground Railroad until 1855. In 1864, Jonathan Tappan and wife Julia Nute bought the place and for many years kept it as a flourishing summer boarding house, known as the Tappan Farm. Along with the other nearby boarding houses, Tappan Farm had the reputation as the neighborhood of the rowdy boarding houses, hosting guests from Irish South Boston. (More on the Tappans and the house are in the 2016 exhibit).