The original Perry Farm was the first or second place on the right as you turn onto Perry Farm Rd off Ashburnham Rd. Red Pines was built in 1750, bought by Eli Cromwell Tuttle and his second wife Maria Robinson Hurd Perry of Townsend. Eli's daughter, Helen Mabel Tuttle ( my great grandmother) had married Chauncey Perry. Eli Tuttle was a well known newspaper man, having covered the Civil War and worked as assistant editor under Joseph Pulitzer. I have a plethora of information on him, as well as a scrapbook of his articles. I've been thinking of writing a synopsis of his life and donating his scrapbook to NI historical society. After Maria and Eli passed, Helen and Chauncey sold the Perry Rd house and kept the River Rd residence ( Red Pines) as a summer place when Chauncey was working in Boston and they were living in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The original Perry Farm was the first or second place on the right as you turn onto Perry Farm Rd off Ashburnham Rd. Red Pines was built in 1750, bought by Eli Cromwell Tuttle and his second wife Maria Robinson Hurd Perry of Townsend. Eli's daughter, Helen Mabel Tuttle ( my great grandmother) had married Chauncey Perry. Eli Tuttle was a well known newspaper man, having covered the Civil War and worked as assistant editor under Joseph Pulitzer. I have a plethora of information on him, as well as a scrapbook of his articles. I've been thinking of writing a synopsis of his life and donating his scrapbook to NI historical society. After Maria and Eli passed, Helen and Chauncey sold the Perry Rd house and kept the River Rd residence ( Red Pines) as a summer place when Chauncey was working in Boston and they were living in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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