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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
r., who built the brick house now standing on the original site of the Mixer house. Just above Bacon Street, (formerly known by the title of Skunk Lane), there still stands the house once the property of Isaac and Benjamin Hagar. In 1798 William Fiske was the owner of this house and 40 acres of land. From him it passed to his youngest daughter, Caroline, who upon her decease, devised it to the town of Waltham. It is among the oldest buildings if not the very oldest standing in the town. on as when put on over eighty years ago. The three willow trees in front of the house sprang from a willow switch, cut by the boys seventy-five years ago, to quicken the homeward pace of the horse they were driving, which switch their father, William Fiske, broke into three pieces and set out on their return. The estate, valued at $10,000, embraces about five acres of land with a fine frontage on Main Street, and is located at the highest point on the plain west of Beaver Brook. The late Mi