Built in 1848. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 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 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1848.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
This property stands in Wayland Town. History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880; History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
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 Wayland Town - 21,245 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Old Town Bridge between 1995 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 were 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 | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 19 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 1 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | FRAMINGHAM |
| 24 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,251 specimens collected within 10 miles of Old Town Bridge between 1898 and 1975: 786 Animalia, 296 Plantae, 162 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley, A. E. Feldman 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 |
 | Actaea pachypoda Elliott | 1898 | Ernest Charles Smith | |
 | Antennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer | 1898 | Williams, E.F. | |
 | Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins | 1898 | not recorded | |
 | Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook. | 1898 | not recorded | |
 | Aquilegia canadensis L. | 1898 | M. I. Gunn | Natick |
 | Agaricus brunnescens Peck | 1900 | Morris, G. E. | Waltham |
| Araiospora pulchra Thaxt. | 1900 | Thaxter, Roland | Stony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts] | |
 | Boletus auriporus Peck | 1900 | G. E. Morris | |
 | Boletus badius (Fr.) Fr. | 1900 | G. E. Morris | |
 | Boletus rubropunctus Peck | 1900 | G. E. Morris | |
 | Buglossoides arvensis (L.) I.M.Johnst. | 1900 | C. H. Knowlton | Natick. |
All 1,251 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Old Town Bridge: 7 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panlini Loam Co | Peat | Past Producer | Peat | |
| Arthur Scofield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Framington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| New England Sand & Grv Co. Pit & Pl | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pepperell Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Stonebridge Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Town of Wayland | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bogle-Walker House | 1.3 miles | 1992 |
 | Sudbury Center Historic District | 1.3 miles | 1976 |
 | Wayland Center Historic District | 1.3 miles | 1974 |
 | Moses Brewer House | 1.8 miles | 1990 |
 | Noyes-Parris House | 2.1 miles | 1990 |
 | Goodnow Library | 2.1 miles | 2002 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75000292 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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