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La Finca Paca Inmobiliaria

 

alpacas grazing framed

Exclusive Agents to the Camelid Clientele

Please see our PLANS area for details about our Land for Sale

We have found it more expensive to live here in North America than back home in Peru

We need to raise some funds for a new barn and other improvements around the farm

We will be for the first time ever, entertaining offers from humans to live with us on part of our farm

Please sign up to view our permits and plans on-line

Please be Mindful that all visitors will be thoroughly inspected by Petrus and Quintus when entering the property

Please understand that this is an active alpaca farm, The security and safety of our herd is of utmost importance

Therefore there will be no unaccompanied showings at any time

Clover will schedule a time to rotate the heard to graze another pasture and allow you to view the Lot at 110 Teele Road

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Four Barrels of Cider

Colonial Period (1739-1775)

Over the course of the eighteenth century, the Lancaster Road became of increasing importance as the main route west from Concord to Lancaster and the growing regional center at Worcester. Its section through Bolton, the northeast branch of the old Bay Path, was improved at intervals in an attempt to address problems at its many wetlands crossings and to maintain the standard of making it “so feasible as to carry, with four oxen, four barrels of cider at once.” As the town grew, the Selectmen were continually asked to lay out new roads to provide access to various parts of town, and to ease transportation to neighboring communities. A few local roads were established between dispersed farms, and connections with neighboring towns were made via the establishment of South Bolton Road and Berlin Road to the south, and Harvard and East End roads to the north.

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Old Lancaster Road

Like many another American town, Lancaster finds its origin in an Indian trading post. Although no contemporary mention appears of this, the first mercantile enterprise on Lancaster soil, it must have been founded before the autumn of 1643. Whether it preceded, or was subsequent to, the purchase of eighty square miles of land from Sholan, cannot be told. Both Symonds and King so soon disappear from the scene that they have been commonly treated in our history as mere real estate dealers, who sold their bargain at the first advantageous offer. Is there not in the scanty facts which follow, heretofore ignored, something that suggests rather trouble, sickness and disappointment, than the harvesting of profit?                                 Continue reading “Old Lancaster Road”

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Old Bay Road or Path(s)

Old Lancaster Road Old Sudbury Road Old Marlboro Road
The Old Bay Path(s)

Old Bay Road does not appear to make it all the way to the bay any longer. What Bay you ask. Well the Massachussetts Bay, you know that’s why we are known as the Bay State.

Back in the Day we were not all that creative with street names, in fact street names and especially street numbers are a fairly modern invention.

In 1673 the roads were named for where they went. Lancaster Road, Concord Road, Marlboro Road, and the really important ones were know as paths.  The name a road went into town with was not necessarily the name it left town with. That’s why you see major roads that are obviously contiguous change name at the town-line.  Paths on the other hand might be colony-wide, like the Old Connecticut Path or one of the many Bay Paths. Most of the Mother Towns like Lancaster had a Bay Path that lead back to Boston like the Hub of a Wheel.

Did the Natives consider Boston the Hub of the Universe too?
What is the importance of 1673?

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Roundheads and Regicides

Old gravestones - very weathered and eroded

The Regicide’s Grave- This grave in the Lower Village Cemetery is believed to be the burying spot of William Goffe, “Stow’s Regicide.” Goff was one of the generals in Oliver Cromwell’s army in England who signed the death warrant for King Charles I in 1649. With the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, his life in peril, he fled to New England. A man identified as “John Green” subsequently appeared in Stow (one clue that he was Goffe: Goffe’s sister was married to one of the town’s original proprietors) and lived out his life operating a small business. “Green” asked that he be buried in an unmarked grave under an immense slab to prevent his body from being disturbed. When researchers opened the grave in the 1930s, they found a skeleton with the head and hands missing – presumably taken as proof for the £50 bounty on his head. Continue reading “Roundheads and Regicides”