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Letter from Edwin B. Worthen to G. K. Richardson, Town counsel, Richardson, Wolcott, Tyler & Fassett, November 5, 1946. Letter requests that Mr. Richardson, the Lexington Savings Bank’s attorney, review attached Article 18 and determine whether there is anything in the article or vote that would preclude the Selectmen from giving a good marketable title.
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Letter from Edwin B. Worthen to G. K. Richardson, Town counsel, Richardson, Wolcott, Tyler & Fassett, November 5, 1946
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Letter from Edwin B. Worthen to G. K. Richardson, Town counsel, Richardson, Wolcott, Tyler & Fassett, November 5, 1946
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Letter from Edwin B. Worthen to G. K. Richardson, Town counsel, Richardson, Wolcott, Tyler & Fassett, November 5, 1946. Letter requests that Mr. Richardson, the Lexington Savings Bank’s attorney, review attached Article 18 and determine whether there is anything in the article or vote that would preclude the Selectmen from giving a good marketable title.
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["November 5, 1946"]
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1946
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Worthen.17.21b.03-3
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Worthen, Edwin B., 1879-1956
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Cary Memorial Library
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Edwin B. Worthen Collection
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Civil defense
Veterans
Lexington Selectmen
Hill Street
Cedar Street
Post-war projects
Poor Farm
World War, 1939-1945
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Lexington
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
United States
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Massachusetts
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Middlesex
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Lexington
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Article 18, which appeared in the warrant for the 1946 Town Meeting, and which was approved: “To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sub-divide that portion of the so-called Poor Farm Tract, now owned by the Town of Lexington, fronting Cedar Street and Hill Street, into lots of approximately 12,500 feet each in area and to sell same in their discretion to veterans of World War II who were residents of Lexington at the time of their induction into the armed service, at a price of $300 per lot, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.”
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