Structure · Built 1975
West Billerica Fire Station
West Billerica Fire Station
| Address | 359 Treble Cove Rd |
| Built | 1975 |
| Other Lot Structures | Samuel Brown 2nd House (1852 - 1974) |
The West Billerica Fire Station stands at 359 Treble Cove Road, in the angle on the northeast side of Nashua Road where Treble Cove Road leaves it. It was built in 1975 on a corner lot of a little over an acre that the New England Erecting Company gave to the town, and it opened on November 16, 1975 as the town's fifth fire station, a few months after the East Billerica station on Salem Road. It is a one-story building of concrete block with a flat roof: two apparatus bays face the corner under the words "West Billerica Fire Station", with a lower wing for the office and the firefighters' quarters beside them.
The corner was for nearly two hundred years part of a farm. It belonged to Thomas Shed, who had it from his father William Shed in 1764 and from his brother William Shed Jr. in 1779, and who left it by his will of 1804 to his son-in-law Benjamin Russell, so that it was long called "the Russell Farm". Samuel Brown 2d bought the farm back together in 1822 and 1823 from Rebecca Kittredge, Francis Kidder and Josiah Crosby and kept a tavern there; in 1827 his "Tavern and farm" were sold at a sheriff's auction to John and David P. Winning, and from 1831 David P. Winning kept the tavern until his death in 1850. The house, the Samuel Brown 2nd House, stood on a five-acre triangle bounded by "Tripple Cove road", the old road (later West Street) and the Boston road (Nashua Road). The widow Rebecca C. Winning sold the farm in 1852, and after a run of owners, among them Joel and Martha Dix and Samuel N. Wood of Lowell, Ralph C. and George R. Dyer of Woburn bought it in 1916. The county relocated Treble Cove Road at the corner in 1934, which gave the junction its present curve. Ralph C. Dyer sold the 5.42-acre triangle in 1964, and at the end of that year it passed to the New England Erecting Company of Cochituate.
By 1970 the fire department was asking for more stations to cover the growing population of East and West Billerica. In 1971 the town meeting had the Moderator appoint a fire station committee, one member from each precinct with the fire chief, to prepare for "two new fire stations, one to be located in West Billerica and one to be located in East Billerica". In 1972 it voted $12,000 under Article 43 to buy about an acre of the New England Erecting Company's land "at the intersection of Treble Cove Road and Nashua Road". The company instead gave the land. At a special town meeting on January 16, 1973 the town voted to accept the corner "as a gift ... for the purpose of constructing a fire station thereon" (Article 19), to discontinue West Street from Treble Cove Road to Nashua Road as a public way (Article 20) and to convey the old road to the company (Article 21). The company deeded Parcel 4 of its plan, 46,666 square feet, to the town "in full consideration of One Dollar" on February 26, 1973, and the committee reported that it had acquired the site "at no cost to the Town".
The East Billerica station was built first. In 1973 the town meeting cut West Billerica out of a $338,000 article for both stations, and in 1974 it voted only $24,500 for plans, with authority for the committee to advertise for bids and bring them back to the town meeting. The architects were Campbell, Green and Chirigas of Somerville, who had also designed the East Billerica station. A special town meeting on October 21, 1974 voted, 125 to 34, to borrow $225,000 "for the construction, furnishing and equipping a Fire Station to be constructed at junction of Treble Cove Road and Nashua Road on land formerly owned by New England Erecting Company". Sub-bids were opened on December 27, 1974 and general bids were due January 6, 1975, and the Board of Appeals granted the committee a variance for the building on March 31, 1975. The 1975 town meeting voted $75,000 for a new Class A pumper "to equip the West Billerica Fire Station". The building committee was James J. Galvin, chairman, Franklyn J. McCaffrey, Thomas J. Kilday, Francis C. Mandarano, William S. Robbins and Grant H. Whiteway, with Fire Chief Harry Martell Jr.; the town gave them an award in 1976 when it accepted their final report.
A sewer pumping station was added on the lot at the Nashua Road corner in 1990, when the town sewered the area. During the budget crisis of the early 1990s the station was closed: a Proposition 2 1/2 override question asking $300,000 "to reopen the West Billerica Fire Station" failed with all the other override questions on October 19, 1991, and the station stayed closed for the 1993 budget. The Selectmen voted to reopen it, and it went back into service on October 1, 1995. In 2024 the department reported that "Engine 5 (West Billerica)" would be replaced in 2025. The town still owns the lot under the 1973 deed.
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- Billerica assessor: 359 Treble Cove Rd, parcel 66-2-0, West Billerica Fire Station, built about 1975
- Annual Report of the Town of Billerica, 1972: Art. 43, $12,000 to buy about one acre of New England Erecting Co. at Treble Cove and Nashua Roads for a fire station
- Annual Report of the Town of Billerica, 1973: special town meeting Jan. 16, 1973, Arts. 19-21 (gift of the site, West Street discontinued); Fire Station Committee report
- Annual Report of the Town of Billerica, 1974: Art. 34 ($24,500 for plans), special town meeting Oct. 21, 1974, Art. 16 ($225,000); architects Campbell Green & Chirigas
- Annual Report of the Town of Billerica, 1975: photograph; pumper for the West station (Art. 18); station opened November 16, 1975
- Annual Report of the Town of Billerica, 1976: final report and award to the Fire Station Building Committee
- Annual Report of the Town of Billerica, 1995: Selectmen reopen the West Billerica Fire Station on October 1, 1995
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| May 17, 1796 | Deed | William Shed of Billerica, cordwainer (wife Mary) | His son Thomas Shed of Billerica, husbandman | 1764: William Shed to his son Thomas Shed, half his lands with the dwelling house (the later Russell farm) | 122/311 (South) |
Billerica town book 9, pages 234-236. For 120 pounds, "the one half of my real estate of lands", bounded by "the highway that leads by my house to Thomas Baldwin's land", by Baldwin, Edward Spalding and "Wm. Shed junr land", "with my Dwelling house", Thomas "not to come in to the possession of the abovesaid Land till after my Death and my wife's Death". Signed 6 March 1764, acknowledged 31 March 1764, recorded only 17 May 1796. The Shed homestead later called "the farm owned by Thomas Shed".
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| May 17, 1796 | Deed | William Shed Jr. of Windham, New Hampshire, husbandman (wife Elizabeth) | Thomas Shed of Billerica, husbandman | 1779: William Shed Jr. to Thomas Shed, lots on Treble Cove Road | 122/313 (South) |
Billerica town book 9, pages 237-238. For 400 pounds (wartime currency), three lots, one beginning "at the westerly side of Treble Cove Road thence running on ye road that leads to Joseph Nicholas land", another of about four acres running to "the highway by John Hills" and "Easterly by the highway to treble cove road". Signed 2 August 1779, acknowledged 2 June 1780, recorded 17 May 1796. With the 1764 deed this made up the Thomas Shed farm between Treble Cove road and the road west past the Hill houses toward the Nichols land.
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| 1804 | Will | Estate of Thomas Shed of Billerica, yeoman | His son-in-law Benjamin Russell (executor) | 1804: Thomas Shed's will leaves the farm to his son-in-law Benjamin Russell | Probate #20234 |
Will dated 29 June 1804, proved 7 August 1804: to his wife the use of half his lands and buildings for life, and "to my son in law Benjamin Russell the one half of all my lands and buildings (excepting the aforesaid woodlot) and also the other half of all my lands and buildings at my wife's decease"; $100 each to daughters Sarah Andross and Prudence Spaulding; a 7-acre woodlot by Chelmsford line to grandson Thomas Russell. Inventory 1 April 1805: "The homestead of said deceased, situated in said Billerica, containing about 60 Acres, with the buildings thereon" $1500.
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| December 16, 1812 | Deed | Benjamin Russell of Billerica, yeoman (wife Hannah releasing dower) | Dr. Jacob Kittredge of Billerica, physician | 1812: Russell sells the southern half of the Shed farm to Dr. Jacob Kittredge | 203/54 (South) |
Billerica town book 11, pages 208-209. For $574.28, "the southern half of the farm owned by Thomas Shed late of Billerica" containing 40 acres 2 roods 22 poles, beginning at a maple stump marked by Treble Cove road, bounded easterly by that road "to the road leading to the Baptist meetinghouse in Chelmsford", southerly and southwesterly by that road to land of Stephen and Abel Nickless, northerly by Nickless land to the town bound, and by Russell's own land. Signed 11 November 1812, recorded 16 December 1812. The quarter acre later sold to Asa Hill was cut from this tract.
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| September 8, 1815 | Deed | Dr. Jacob Kittredge of Salem, physician | Rebecca Kittredge of Tewksbury, singlewoman | 1815: Jacob Kittredge to Rebecca Kittredge | 214/36 (South) |
Billerica town book 11, pages 461-462. For $420, a parcel of about 42 acres "bounded partly by a road leading from Billerica meeting house to Carlisle and partly by a road leading from said main road by the house lately occupied by Alpheus Hill deceased, it being formerly a part of the estate of Thomas Shed decd and the same I purchased of Benjamin Russell about three years ago". Signed 31 August 1815, recorded 8 September 1815. The road "by the house lately occupied by Alpheus Hill" is the road on which Asa Hill built in 1824-1825.
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| February 21, 1823 | Deed | Rebecca Kittredge of Tewksbury, singlewoman | Samuel Brown (2d) of Billerica, yeoman | 1822: Rebecca Kittredge to Samuel Brown 2d | 246/527 (South) |
Billerica town book 13, pages 193-194. For $350, "a certain tract of land in said Billerica being the southern part of the farm lately owned by Benjamin Russell containing forty acres two roods and twenty two poles", with the same bounds as the 1812 deed: Treble Cove road on the east, "the road leading to the Baptist meeting house in Chelmsford" on the south and southwest to land of Stephen and Abel Nickless, Nickless on the north to the town bound, and land of Josiah Crosby Esq. Signed 15 February 1822, recorded 21 February 1823. No title recital.
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| 1823 | Quitclaim | Josiah Crosby of Billerica, Esquire (wife Betsey releasing dower) | Samuel Brown 2d of Billerica, yeoman | 1823: Josiah Crosby to Samuel Brown 2d, the 28 acres west of the road | 306/494 (South) |
Billerica town book 11, pages 581-582. For $600, quitclaim of "the following real estate with the buildings thereon situated in the Westerly part of said Billerica", bounded northerly by land of "Widow Lucy H. Foster & said Brown", westerly by Stephen Nickles, southerly by Brown and easterly "by the Carlisle road, so called, containing twenty eight acres more or less, being the same I purchased of John Russell Jr." Dated March 24, 1823 (witnesses Moses Nickles and M. Preston), recorded in 1831. With the Kittredge and Kidder deeds of 1822 this made up the tavern farm that Brown lost in 1827; this parcel lay west of the road, not at the corner.
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| March 12, 1828 | Sheriff's Deed | Thomas Sumner, deputy sheriff, on execution against Samuel Brown 2nd of Billerica | John Winning of Billerica and David P. Winning of Lexington | 1827: sheriff's sale of Brown's tavern farm to John and David P. Winning | 280/151 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 66-67. On an execution in favour of Joshua Bennett against Samuel Brown 2nd, sold at public auction March 12, 1827 at Brown's tavern for $400 "the right in equity of redemption of the Tavern and farm where the said Brown now lives situate in the westerly part of said Billerica containing about eighty acres more or less bounded easterly on Tripple cove road southerly by a County road northerly by land of Moses Nickles, Stephen Nickles and others", subject to a mortgage to Josiah Crosby dated October 7, 1825. Witnesses Zacheus Shed and Marshall Preston. Probably, but not provably, the source of the Winning pasture sold in 1837.
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| August 31, 1831 | Warranty Deed | Caleb S. Brown and Samuel Brown 4th of Billerica, innkeepers (wives Isanna and Rebecca Brown releasing dower) | David P. Winning of Charlestown, yeoman | 1831: Brown's sons to David P. Winning, the tavern and Russell Farm | 307/35 (South) |
Aug. 23, 1831, Billerica town book 16, pages 8-9. For $2,600, "a certain parcel of real estate, with a Tavern house and other buildings thereon commonly known by the name of the Russell Farm," about eighty acres, east by Tripple Cove road, south by the road by the estate of Martha Hill, north by Moses and Stephen Nickless, Capt. Thomas Spaulding and Caleb S. Brown, then by the widow Lucy H. Foster, "being the same estate purchased by our Father Samuel Brown 2d" of Rebecca Kittredge (1822), Francis Kidder (1822) and Josiah Crosby (1823); also "one other parcel of land containing one acre having a barn thereon," at the corner of the road from Carlisle to Billerica and "the new Western road leading from Chelmsford to Boston," eight rods by twenty rods, "being the same parcel that we purchased of Lucy H. Foster by her deed 10 November 1828." Saving a quarter acre with Asa Hill's house and an acre claimed by Thomas Spaulding Jr.
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| 1850 | Administration | Estate of David P. Winning of Billerica, intestate | Asa Hodgman 2nd of Chelmsford, administrator; widow Rebecca C. Winning and children | 1850: estate of David P. Winning | Probate #44960 |
David P. Winning died intestate early in 1850. His widow declined and Asa Hodgman 2nd of Chelmsford was appointed administrator on Apr. 9, 1850. The inventory of Apr. 4, 1850 by John Baldwin, Samuel Rogers and Reuben Chamberlain lists the "Homestead containing 80 acres, with the buildings thereon" at $4,000, three wood lots, half of the Davis land and two pews at the Universalist meeting house; real estate $5,582.50, personal $4,838.64. The household rooms include a "Dining or bar room" (the tavern). Among the notes due to the estate is one of Alexander Dutton for $17.70. Widow's allowance $1,000. First account allowed June 2, 1857, signed by Rebecca C. Winning, Otis Adams as guardian of the five minor heirs, Martha F. Winning and Susan B. W. Munroe.
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| April 1, 1851 | Guardian's Deed | Otis Adams of Chelmsford, guardian of Martha F., William, Julia, James and Clara Winning, minor children of David P. Winning | Rebecca C. Winning of Billerica, widow | 1851: guardian's sale of the tavern farm to the widow Rebecca C. Winning | 606/38 (South) |
Mar. 24, 1851, Billerica town book 19, pages 61-62. Under a license of the Probate Court of Jan. 14, 1851, sold at public auction to the widow, the highest bidder, for $2,328.67: the tavern farm "with a tavern house and other buildings thereon" of about eighty acres (Tripple Cove road, the road by the estate of Asa Hill, Moses Nickless, Asa Nickless, Thomas Simonds, Caleb S. Brown, the widow Lucy H. Foster), saving a quarter acre with Asa Hill's house; "Also one other parcel of land containing one acre having a Black-Smith's shop thereon," at the corner of the wall at the road from Carlisle to Billerica, twenty rods on the Boston road, eight rods by Lucy H. Foster; and a one-acre house lot on Tripple Cove road "supposed to be included in the first described lot." The first deed to name the blacksmith shop.
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| April 1, 1851 | Mortgage | Rebecca C. Winning of Billerica, widow | Otis Adams of Chelmsford, gentleman | 1851: the widow's mortgage to Otis Adams | 606/39 (South) |
Billerica town book 19, page 63, recorded with the guardian's deed. For $2,328.67, a mortgage of the farm of about 81 acres "with a dwelling house Barn and other buildings thereon" and of "one other parcel of land with a Blacksmiths shop thereon containing one acre," "the same which was owned by my late husband David P. Winning deceased at the time of his decease and which has been conveyed to me by said Otis Adams as Guardian and by [Susan] P. Winning." The town copy notes a discharge at Middlesex North Book 555 Page 162. Adams entered to foreclose on July 9, 1867 (Book 57 Page 455).
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| 1851 | Quitclaim | Susan P. Winning of Billerica, singlewoman | Rebecca C. Winning of Billerica, widow | 1851: Susan P. Winning releases to her mother | 615/342 (South) |
1851, Billerica town book 19, pages 124-126. For $465.73, quitclaim of the tavern farm of about eighty acres and of "one other parcel of land containing one acre having a Blacksmith shop thereon" (twenty rods on the Boston road, eight rods by Lucy H. Foster), "Being all the interest in the Homestead place above described which I inherited from my father David P. Winning deceased." With the guardian's deed this gave the widow the whole title.
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| March 15, 1853 | Warranty Deed | Rebecca C. Winning of Billerica, widow of David P. Winning | George P. Elliot (Elliott) of Lowell, trader | 1852: Rebecca C. Winning to George P. Elliott | 648/318 (South) |
Billerica town book 19, pages 456-457, dated November 11, 1852, acknowledged the same day before Joel Adams, recorded March 15, 1853. For $3,300, "a certain Farm situate in said Billerica on the west side of Concord River on the Boston new road so called": first parcel about five acres "and has the Dwelling House a small Barn shed and wood house thereon", bounded southeasterly by "Tripple Cove Road so called", northerly by the old road and westerly by the Boston Road; second parcel about twelve acres, bounded southeasterly by the Tripple Cove Road, northerly by land of the widow Lucy H. Foster and land of Caleb S. Brown, westerly by the Boston road and southerly by the old road; third parcel about sixty-three acres with "a large Barn thereon", bounded northeasterly by the Boston Road, southerly by the old road leading by the house of Asa Hill and by Hill's land, and westerly by land of Moses Nickles, Asa Nickles, land late of Capt. Thomas Spalding deceased and Caleb S. Brown to the Boston Road. "The above estate is the same lately owned by my late husband David P. Winning, deceased"; subject to a mortgage to Otis Adams securing $1,834.69, which Elliott assumes as part of the price; "the whole contains about eighty acres". Witness Joel Adams. The old District No. 9 schoolhouse stood on this land in December 1852; Elliot's 16-foot strip of the new school lot came out of the second parcel.
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| June 30, 1857 | Warranty Deed | George P. Elliott of Billerica and Ann D. Elliott his wife | Joel Dix Jr. of Billerica | 1857: Elliott to Joel Dix Jr. | 10/442 |
Dated June 30, 1857. For $5,000, "a certain Farm situate in said Billerica on the West side of Concord River on the Boston new Road, so called": the first parcel of about five acres "has the Dwelling house, a small Barn, Shed and Wood house thereon" and is bounded southeasterly by "Trippee Cove Road", northerly by the old road and westerly by the Boston road; a second parcel of about twelve acres (Lucy H. Foster, Caleb S. Brown) and a third of about sixty three acres "has a large barn thereon". "The same which ... was conveyed by the deed from Rebecca C. Winning to me ... dated the eleventh day of November ... 1852 ... Book 648 Page 318", except the school house lot. Dix assumed the 1851 Winning mortgage to Otis Adams ($1,728.67 unpaid); Elliott kept the right for himself and his family "to reside in the dwelling house on said land till October next".
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| June 30, 1857 | Mortgage | Joel Dix Jr. of Billerica and Martha Dix his wife | George P. Elliott of Billerica | 1857: Dix mortgage back to Elliott | 10/444 |
Dated June 30, 1857, recorded with the deed. A purchase-money mortgage for $3,256.32 on the same farm, the first parcel of about five acres "and has the Dwelling" house, barn, shed and wood house. The margin notes the release at Book 61, Page 460 (1868).
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| April 16, 1859 | Warranty Deed | Joel Dix Jr. of Billerica (Martha Dix his wife releasing dower and homestead) | John Q. A. Griffin of Malden | 1859: Dix to John Q. A. Griffin of Malden | 18/548 |
Dated April 14, 1859. For $5,900, "a certain farm situate in said Billerica on the West side of Concord River on the Boston new Road so called": the first parcel of about five acres "has a dwelling house, a small barn, shed and wood house thereon", southeasterly by Triple Cove road, northerly by the old road and westerly by the Boston Road, with the twelve-acre and sixty-three-acre parcels as before and the school house lot excepted. "Said premises are subject to a mortgage of seventeen hundred and eighty four dollars and 57/100 and interest which said Dix agrees to pay and discharge." No title recital.
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| May 26, 1868 | Executor's Deed | Timothy T. Sawyer of Charlestown, executor of the will of John Q. A. Griffin late of Malden | Martha Dix, wife of Joel Dix of Billerica | 1868: Griffin's executor to Martha Dix | 62/215 |
Dated April 27, 1868. Griffin "in his life time entered into a written agreement for the conveyance of the real estate hereinafter described unto Martha Dix wife of Joel Dix of Billerica ... and died before making such conveyance"; on her petition the Probate Court at Cambridge on March 24, 1868 ordered the executor to convey. For one dollar, the same farm on the Boston New Road, the first parcel of about five acres "has a dwelling house a small barn, shed, and wood house thereon", "with all the title ... which said Griffin received in and by a certain deed from said Joel Dix ... dated the fourteenth day of April A.D. 1859 ... Book 18, Page 548".
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| May 26, 1868 | Assignee's Quitclaim | George Stevens of Lowell, assignee in insolvency of Joel Dix of Billerica | Martha Dix, wife of Joel Dix, to her sole and separate use | 1868: Joel Dix's insolvency assignee to Martha Dix | 62/218 |
Dated May 21, 1868, acknowledged May 22 before A. P. Bonney. For one dollar, Stevens as assignee of "the goods and estate which were of Joel Dix of Billerica ... an insolvent debtor" releases to Martha Dix, "to hold to her sole and separate use, free from the interference and control of her husband", all rights vested in him by the assignment, and especially "a certain farm situated in said Billerica and particularly described in and by the deed of Rebecca C. Winning to George P. Elliot dated November 11th A.D. 1852 ... Book 648, Page 318".
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| May 26, 1868 | Mortgage | Joel Dix of Billerica and Martha Dix his wife, in her right | Samuel N. Wood of Lowell | 1868: Dix mortgage to Samuel N. Wood | 62/219 |
For $1,500, a mortgage of the farm on the westerly side of Concord River "on the Boston New Road": about five acres "with the dwelling house, small barn, shed and wood house thereon", about twelve acres, and about sixty three acres with a large barn, "being all and the same real estate conveyed by George P. Elliot to Joel Dix by deed dated June 30th A.D. 1857 ... Book 10, Page 442", then by Dix to the late John Q. A. Griffin (Book 18, Page 548) and by Griffin's executor to Martha Dix (April 27, 1868), subject to "a certain mortgage given by Rebecca C. Winning to Otis Adams dated March 24th, A.D. 1851". Margin: discharge at Book 555, Page 162.
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| May 5, 1869 | Warranty Deed | Joel Dix of Billerica and Martha Dix his wife, in her right | Samuel N. Wood of Lowell | 1869: the Dixes sell the farm to Samuel N. Wood | 67/135 |
Acknowledged May 4, 1869. For $5,000, "a certain farm consisting of three certain tracts of land with all the buildings thereon": about five acres "with the dwelling house, small barn, shed and wood house thereon", southeasterly by the "Tripple Cove road", northerly by the "Old Road" and westerly by the "Boston Road"; about twelve acres; and about sixty three acres "with a large barn thereon" by the School house lot. The same land that came from Elliot to Dix (Book 10, Page 442), Dix to Griffin (Book 18, Page 548) and Griffin's executor to Martha Dix (1868). Subject to the 1851 Winning mortgage to Otis Adams (Book 606, Page 39), "by said Adams assigned to said Wood (by whom the same is now held)" (Book 63, Page 386), and to the 1868 Dix mortgage to Wood (Book 62, Page 219), "neither of which said mortgages are intended to be extinguished".
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| April 5, 1897 | Warranty Deed | Samuel N. Wood of Lowell, unmarried | Alvah D. Boynton of Lowell | 1897: Wood to Alvah D. Boynton | 283/197 |
Dated and recorded April 5, 1897. "For one dollar and other good and valuable consideration", "a certain farm consisting of three certain tracts of land with all the buildings thereon situated in Billerica": first "a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon containing about five acres", southeasterly by the Tripple Cove Road, northerly by the "Old Road" and westerly by the "Boston Road"; the twelve-acre lot; and about sixty three acres "with a large barn and other buildings thereon", "saving and excepting ... the premises conveyed by David P. Winning to Asa Hill by deed dated April 29th 1834 ... Book 334, Page 315". Boynton gave a mortgage back to Wood the same day (Book 284, Page 98). No title recital.
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| February 26, 1906 | Foreclosure Deed | Samuel N. Wood of Lowell, mortgagee of Alvah D. Boynton | Edward N. Wood of Lowell | 1906: Wood forecloses on Boynton | 387/391 |
Dated February 26, 1906. Under the power of sale in the mortgage Alvah D. Boynton gave Samuel N. Wood on April 5, 1897 (Book 284, Page 98), after default, published notice and a public auction in Billerica (affidavit subjoined), for $5,299.18 paid by Edward N. Wood: "a certain farm consisting of three certain tracts of land with all the buildings thereon": first "a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon containing about five acres", southeasterly by the Tripple Cove Road, northerly by the old road and westerly by the Boston Road; the twelve-acre lot by Lucy H. Foster and Caleb S. Brown; and about sixty three acres "with a large barn and other buildings thereon" by the School-house lot, excepting the 1834 Winning deed to Asa Hill.
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| February 26, 1906 | Quitclaim | Edward N. Wood of Lowell | Samuel N. Wood of Lowell | 1906: back to Samuel N. Wood | 387/394 |
Recorded February 26, 1906, directly after the foreclosure deed and its affidavit (the farm was struck off at auction by Edward W. Clark, auctioneer, to Edward N. Wood for $5,299.18). "In consideration of One dollar and other good and valuable considerations", Edward N. Wood quitclaims back to Samuel N. Wood "a certain farm consisting of three certain tracts of land with all the buildings thereon, situated in Billerica", the same three lots, so that the mortgagee held the farm free of the Boynton equity.
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| April 10, 1908 | Warranty Deed | Samuel N. Wood of Lowell, unmarried | J. Frank Dubois of Lynn and Fred A. Smith of Ipswich | 1908: Wood to Dubois and Smith | 417/101 |
Dated April 6, 1908. "In consideration of One dollar and of other good and valuable considerations", "a certain Farm consisting of three certain tracts of land with the buildings thereon situated in Billerica": first "a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon containing about five acres", southeasterly by the Triple Cove Road, northerly by the old road and westerly by the Boston Road; second about twelve acres by Lucy H. Foster and Caleb S. Brown; third about sixty three acres "with a large barn and other buildings thereon". The buyers gave Wood a $5,500 mortgage the same day (Book 417, Page 102).
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| April 10, 1908 | Mortgage | J. Frank Dubois of Lynn and Fred A. Smith of Ipswich | Samuel N. Wood of Lowell | 1908: Dubois and Smith mortgage to Wood | 417/102 |
Recorded with the deed. "In consideration of Fifty-five hundred dollars", a mortgage with power of sale of the same farm of three tracts "with the buildings thereon", beginning with the five acres bounded by the Triple Cove Road, the old road and the Boston Road. The margin notes the mortgagee's sale at Book 438, Page 365 (1909).
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| August 16, 1909 | Foreclosure Deed | Samuel N. Wood of Lowell, mortgagee of J. Frank Dubois and Fred A. Smith | Flora A. Crockett of Lowell | 1909: foreclosure sale to Flora A. Crockett | 438/365 |
Dated August 14, 1909. Under the power of sale in the 1908 Dubois and Smith mortgage (Book 417, Page 102), after notice in the Lowell Courier-Citizen on July 8, 15 and 22 and an auction "upon the premises on Saturday, the thirty-first day of July 1909, at three o'clock in the afternoon", for $6,400 paid by Flora A. Crockett: "a certain farm consisting of three (3) tracts of land with the buildings thereon", first "a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon containing about five (5) acres", southeasterly by the Triple Cove Road, northerly by the Old Road and westerly by the Boston Road, with the twelve-acre and sixty-three-acre lots, subject to the year's taxes "and to the lawful rights if any, of John H. Downing ... as a tenant of the mortgagors".
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| February 14, 1913 | Warranty Deed | Ernest R. Kimball of Arlington (Blanche Spurr Kimball his wife releasing dower) | John H. Coghlan of Everett | 1913: Kimball to John H. Coghlan | 500/493 |
Dated February 12, 1913, ten days after Kimball bought it. "In consideration of One Dollar and other valuable considerations", "a certain farm consisting of three (3) tracts of land with the buildings thereon": first "a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon containing about five (5) acres", southeasterly by the Triple Cove Road, northerly by the Old Road and westerly by the Boston Road; the twelve-acre lot; and about sixty-three acres "with a large barn and other buildings thereon", saving the 1834 Winning deed to Asa Hill. Subject to the mortgage held by Samuel N. Wood (Book 438, Page 369) "on which the principal sum now is forty one hundred dollars". "For my title see deed of Flora A. Crockett to me dated February 3, 1913."
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| February 4, 1913 | Warranty Deed | Flora A. Crockett of Lowell, unmarried | Ernest R. Kimball of Arlington | 1913: Crockett to Ernest R. Kimball | 501/75 |
Dated February 3, 1913. "In consideration of One Dollar and other valuable considerations", "three (3) certain lots or parcels of land with the buildings thereon situated in Billerica and Carlisle": first "a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon, containing about five (5) acres", southeasterly by Triple Cove Road, northerly by the Old Road and westerly by the Boston Road; second about twelve acres; third about sixty-three acres "with a large barn and other buildings thereon", saving the 1834 Winning deed to Asa Hill. "For my title see deed of Samuel N. Wood, Mortgagee, to me dated August 14, 1909 ... Book 438, Page 365." Subject to her own mortgage to Wood of the same day (Book 438, Page 369), "the principal sum of said mortgage now being $4616.37".
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| July 5, 1913 | Warranty Deed | John H. Coghlan of Everett (Mary H. Coghlan his wife releasing dower) | Ernest R. Kimball of Arlington | 1913: Coghlan back to Kimball | 506/596 |
Signed and acknowledged February 13, 1913, the day after Coghlan took title, but held back until July 5, 1913. "In consideration of One Dollar and other valuable considerations", the same "farm consisting of three (3) tracts of land with the buildings thereon": five acres "with the buildings thereon" by the Triple Cove road, the Old road and the Boston road, the twelve-acre lot, and sixty-three acres "with a large barn, and other buildings thereon". Subject to the Wood mortgage (Book 438, Page 369, $4,100 principal). "For my title see Deed of Ernest R. Kimball to me dated February 12, 1913." Coghlan appears to have held the farm only as security or as a straw for Kimball.
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| May 16, 1916 | Discharge of Mortgages | John J. Pickman, an executor of the will of Samuel N. Wood | Rebecca C. Winning (1851 mortgage) and Joel and Martha Dix (1868 mortgage) | 1916: the old Winning and Dix mortgages discharged | 555/162 |
Dated May 16, 1916. Pickman, executor of Samuel N. Wood, "who was the holder of two mortgages one from Rebecca C. Winning to Otis Adams dated March 24, 1851 recorded with Middlesex North District Deeds Billerica book 19 page 63 and the other from Joel Dix and Martha Dix to said Samuel N. Wood, dated May 26, 1868 ... book 62 page 219, acknowledge[s] satisfaction of the same." This finally cleared the Winning widow's 1851 purchase mortgage, 65 years after it was given, on the day the farm was sold to the Dyers.
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| May 16, 1916 | Quitclaim | Ernest R. Kimball of Arlington | Ralph C. Dyer and George R. Dyer, both of Woburn | 1916: Kimball to Ralph C. and George R. Dyer of Woburn | 555/162 |
Recorded May 16, 1916, directly after the discharge of the old Winning and Dix mortgages. "In consideration of One Dollar and other valuable considerations", "a certain farm consisting of three (3) tracts of land with the buildings thereon": first "a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon containing about five (5) acres", southeasterly by the Triple Cove road, northerly by the old road and westerly by the Boston road; second about twelve acres; third about sixty-three acres "with a large barn, and other buildings thereon", saving the 1834 Winning deed to Asa Hill. Subject to the Wood mortgage (Book 438, Page 369) "on which the principal sum now is Twenty-six Hundred Dollars". "For my title see deed of John H. Coghlan to me dated February 13, 1913 ... book 506, page 596."
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| August 21, 1934 | Taking | George R. and Ralph C. Dyer (and others), by the County Commissioners of Middlesex | County of Middlesex (Treble Cove Road relocation) | 1934: county relocation of Treble Cove Road at the corner | 849/421 |
At their meeting of the first Tuesday of June 1934, on the town's 1931 petition, the County Commissioners "further relocate" Treble Cove Road from the Middle Bridge Road (River Street) to the Chelmsford-Boston Road, to a 1934 plan (Plan Book W-215). The northwesterly line ends on a curve of 860.42 feet radius, 193.53 feet long, then S 44 17 15 W 224.41 feet and a curve of 39.83 feet radius, 87.02 feet, "to a point in the northeasterly line of the Chelmsford-Boston Road", the same courses that bound the Dyer triangle in 1963. Lands taken as highway easements include "George R. & Ralph C. Dyer Parcel #1 about 1850 square feet" and "Parcel #2 about 375 square feet" on the northwesterly side.
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| July 15, 1964 | Quitclaim Deed | Ralph C. Dyer of Billerica, unmarried | A private buyer | 1964: Ralph C. Dyer sells the 5.42-acre triangle | 1656/332 |
Recorded July 15, 1964. "For consideration paid", the 5.42-acre triangle between West Street, Nashua Road and Treble Cove Road, the old house lot of the Winning tavern farm, as shown on the "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass. belonging to George A. & Ralph Dyer", April 15, 1963, by Brooks, Jordan and Graves (Plan Book 100, Plan 68B), "to be recorded herewith"; subject to taxes; no title recital (the Dyers had held the farm since 1916, Book 555 Page 162). A mortgage back to Dyer was discharged in 1965. The buyer sold the triangle at the end of 1964 to the New England Erecting Company (Book 1680 Page 358).
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| December 31, 1964 | Quitclaim Deed | A private owner (the 1964 buyer from Ralph C. Dyer) | New England Erecting Company of Cochituate | site of the fire station, 1964 | 1680/358 |
Recorded December 31, 1964. "For consideration paid", "a certain parcel of land with buildings thereon": from the intersection of the northerly line of Treble Cove Road and the northwesterly line of West Street, by West Street 361.89, 80.98, 148.14 and 36.65 feet to Nashua Road, southerly by Nashua Road 663.90 feet to a road bound at Treble Cove Road, by a curve of 39.83 feet radius (87.02 feet) and by Treble Cove Road 224.41 feet, a curve of 860.42 feet radius (193.53 feet) and 291.55 feet back to West Street, 5.42 acres, as on the "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass. belonging to George A. & Ralph Dyer, April 15, 1963, Brooks, Jordan & Graves" (Plan Book 100, Plan 68B). This was the old five-acre house lot of the Winning tavern farm. Ralph C. Dyer, "being unmarried", had sold the triangle to the grantor in July 1964 (Book 1656, Page 332), taking a mortgage back.
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| March 28, 1973 | Release Deed | Town of Billerica, by its Selectmen | New England Erecting Company, Inc. of Cochituate | 1973: the town releases discontinued West Street to the company in exchange | 2057/242 |
Recorded March 28, 1973. The Selectmen (Paul F. Newman, Thomas F. Cooney, Thomas H. Conway Jr., Gordon C. Brainerd and George S. Gracie Jr.) grant "all right, title and interest of the Town of Billerica in and to the way known as West Street or Old Road", Parcel 2 on the plan of September 8, 1972 for the company by Joseph W. Moore Co. (Plan Book 116, Plan 92), running by stone walls from Nashua Road to Treble Cove Road, 17,271 square feet. "For the authority of the Selectmen to execute this deed see Article 21 of a Special Town Meeting dated January 16, 1973." The same meeting discontinued West Street as a public way (Art. 20) and accepted the corner lot for a fire station as a gift from the company (Art. 19): the two deeds were an exchange.
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| July 25, 1973 | Quitclaim Deed | New England Erecting Co., Inc. of Cochituate | Town of Billerica | Town buys the fire station site | 2076/603 |
Signed February 26, 1973 by its president under a directors' vote of the same day, recorded July 25, 1973. "In full consideration of One Dollar", Parcel 4 on the "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass. ... for New England Erecting Co., Inc.", March 7, 1973, by Joseph W. Moore Co. of Bedford (Plan Book 116, Plan 92): from the northwesterly corner on the easterly side of Nashua Road at Parcel 3, N 37 00 E 197.00 feet, S 53 22 56 E 187.41 feet to Treble Cove Road, by the road on a curve and S 40 32 45 W 224.41 feet, and by a curve of 39.83 feet radius to Nashua Road, then N 14 17 W 138.00 feet, "containing according to said plan 46,666 sq. ft." "For the authority of the Town of Billerica to purchase this land see Article 19 of the Special Town Meeting of January 16, 1973." This is the corner where the tavern house had stood; the town built the West Billerica fire station here (assessor: built about 1975; a sewer pumping station was added in 1990).
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| March 31, 1975 | Notice of Variance | Billerica Board of Appeals | Town of Billerica Fire Station Committee, James Galvin, chairman | 1975: variance for the fire station granted to the Fire Station Committee | 2144/148 |
Recorded March 31, 1975. Notice that a conditional or limited variance or special permit has been granted to the "Town of Billerica Fire Station Committee by James Galvin, Chr." for the premises at "Treble Cove Road & Nashua Road, N. Billerica", assessors' Plate 66, Parcel 2, the record title standing in the name of the Town of Billerica by the deed in Book 2076 Page 604. Decision No. 321 on file with the Town Clerk; certified March 31, 1975, the spring the fire station was put out to bid and built.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted; Probate # is a Middlesex probate case, Ctf a Land Court certificate of title.