On Sunday, May 26, the Iron Work Farm begins the 2024 season of regular open houses at their two South Acton house museums. The open houses comprise the first installment of the Acton 250th celebration of homes of the 1770s entitled, “Still Here: Houses of Our Patriots.” The homes of both Colonel Francis Faulkner and innkeeper Samuel Jones played important roles at the start of the Revolutionary War.
On view there is a Freedom’s Way “Hidden Treasure ”— a new wall display funded by the Mass. Cultural Council through the Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council about the Jones and Faulkner mills that formed the origin of Acton’s first settled village, “Mill Corner”.
This double open house is the first in a three-part series on colonial houses organized by Acton 250. The first and last will be open houses–May 26 at the Iron Work Farm‘s Faulkner House and Jones Tavern, and July 7 at the Acton Historical Society’s Jonathan Hosmer House. The other, on June 10, will be a talk at the library by David Hardt on the Nathaniel Edwards House.
All four buildings were the homes of people involved in the Revolutionary War. What contrasts them architecturally is the different colonial house-types they represent–a First Period “long” house (Jones-Faulkner Homestead), two center-chimney houses (Jones Tavern and Nathaniel Edwards houses) and a less common square-plan house (Jonathan Hosmer House).
Parking in South Acton is available on site or on nearby public lots.
You can find more information at Iron Work Farm.