Burbank (Philip?), Rev. Josiah Bridge house, 47 Old Sudbury Road

Photograph

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Wayland Museum

Name/Title

Burbank (Philip?), Rev. Josiah Bridge house, 47 Old Sudbury Road

Entry/Object ID

ph-50-76-n

Description

Burbank Philip, Rev. Josiah Bridge house' barn, 47 Old Sudbury Road Josiah Bridge’s sits high above the road and is reported to have been built in ca. 1761. He remained as the preacher at the Fourth Meetinghouse from 1761 to 1801 thus remaining through the time in which east side of the Sudbury River became a separate town from the west side of the Sudbury River in 1780. The next proprietors were William and Aaron Bridge, sons of the Rev. Bridge who lived here from 1801 to 1830 and kept a store in part of the house from 1790 to 1815. Eli Sherman, a farmer, resided here throughout the middle of the nineteenth century and had the largest herd of cows (fourteen), which was very large at that time. Next known owner was John Moulton. The late nineteenth century owner was Alden Wellington who was married to Emma Drury Draper, one of the daughters of James Austin Draper . At that time Draper's land abutted Wellington's land.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Burbank, Philip S.

Collection

W. H. Folsom Shoebox Collection

Acquisition

Notes

(these were discovered in an old shoe box in the closet off the Stone Room, next to Willie’s shed in 1983)

Made/Created

Artist

Folsom, Wallace Herbert

Lexicon

Search Terms

Folsom, Wallace Herbert, (1884 - 1954) –- Photographer Bridge, Josiah, Rev. (1739-1801) -- owner Bridge, Aaron Smith (1770-1851) -- Owner Bridge, William (1773-1855) -- owner Sherman, Eli (1789-1860) -- Owner Moulton, John (1836-1918) -- Owner Wellington, Alden D. (1837-1920) -- Owner Draper, Emma Dury (1868- 1948) -- Owner Burbank, Philip (1886-1850) -- Owner House -- Old Sudbury Road -- Wayland, (Mass.)

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

A-71

Dimensions

Height

3-1/4 in

Width

2-1/4 in

General Notes

Note

[Total 761 negatives from original shoebox of Folsom negatives]