Built in 1775 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 2021 · category: Building · built in 1775, Colonial Revival architecture.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
An account from the chapter on Bedford town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
The subject of this sketch was born in Salem, Mass., May 7, 1820, in a house on the opposite corner to the one in which White was murdered by the Kuappa and Crowninshield. In 1821 his parents removed to Moultonborough, N. H., where they lived a few years, and William was sent to the village school for a brief term.
The chapter on Bedford Town in History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1891 ... with a Genealogical Register of Old Families, published 1891 names Bedford. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The Trinitarian Congregational Society immediately erected a house of worship on land given by Mr. Jeremiah Fitch, of Boston, a native of Bedford. The building-lot was directly opposite the Stearns mansion, and was given in consideration of the regard of the donor for his neighbor, teacher, pastor and friend.
Passage source: History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1891 ... with a Genealogical Register of Old Families, published 1891.
Ofthirteen children born toRev.Sarauel Stearns and Abigail French, eleven reached maturity. No other Bedford family has exerted so great an influence in the world of letters. They all received the highest advantages for education that the schools aflbrded. The five sons were all educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at Harvard College, and the four who became clergymen attended Andover Theological Seminary. Of thirty one grandchildren twenty-three are living. Almost all have received a liberal education. Of the grandsons, two are professional men and one an artist of rare ability ; five granddaughters became teachers, four married professional men ; a number are authors of books or writers for leading periodicals. The
Passage source: History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1891 ... with a Genealogical Register of Old Families, published 1891.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Bedford Town - 60,719 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Colonel Timothy Jones House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 16 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 1 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Minute Man National Historical Park | FISKEHILL |
| 26 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 19 July 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,077 specimens collected within 10 miles of Colonel Timothy Jones House between 1898 and 1975: 491 Animalia, 332 Plantae, 233 Fungi, 9 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 | 1900 | not recorded | Wayland |
 | Trientalis borealis Raf. | 1900 | A. P. Chute | |
| Aglaospora profusa (Fr.) De Not. | 1898 | Collector unspecified | ||
 | Boletus griseus Frost | 1898 | H. Webster | |
 | Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber | 1898 | Francis P Daniels | Arlington Heights |
 | Cordyceps capitata (Holmsk.) Link | 1898 | Conant, [?] F. | Middlesex Fells |
 | Cucurbitaria elongata (Fr.) Grev. | 1898 | J. G. Hall | |
 | Agaricus brunnescens Peck | 1900 | Morris, G. E. | Waltham |
| Araiospora pulchra Thaxt. | 1900 | Thaxter, Roland | Stony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts] | |
 | Betula alleghaniensis Britton | 1900 | E. F. Williams | |
 | Boletus auriporus Peck | 1900 | G. E. Morris | |
 | Boletus badius (Fr.) Fr. | 1900 | G. E. Morris |
All 1,077 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Colonel Timothy Jones House: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlisle Deposit | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Cu Prospect | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Burlington S & G Co., Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Burlington Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| D R Raymond | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Joseph Roberto Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Joseph Roberto Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Quinn-Perkins Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Thomas Quinn Co Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bedford, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Lightning | Bedford | $215,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bedford | $100,000 | A powerful microburst occurred in Bedford with estimated 90 to 100 mph wind gusts. Approximately 50 to 70 trees were blown down, most of them healthy pine trees 100 feet tall. The trees were blown down, snapped at least halfway up, or uprooted. Eight trees fell onto houses causing significant damage. On Hilltop Drive and Hemlock Lane alone, more than two dozen pine trees were knocked down. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bedford | $5,000 | Trees on Wiggins Avenue and wires on Alpha Circle were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bedford | $2,000 | In Bedford, a tree was down on a house on Hartford Street. |
| July 1999 | Lightning | Bedford | - | no account filed |
United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bedford Center Historic District | 1.1 miles | 1977 |
 | Bedford Depot | 1.2 miles | 2003 |
 | Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse | 1.2 miles | 2004 |
 | Wheeler-Merriam House | 1.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Old Bedford Center Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease) | 1.3 miles | 2014 |
 | David Lane House | 1.4 miles | 1980 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006594 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Middlesex County | All 1353 listed properties in this county. |
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