Jones Tavern

<body> <p><b>The Faulkner House and Mills</b></p> <font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> </font><font id="role_document" face="Arial" size="2"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <font face="Verdana" size="3">The house was built for Ephraim Jones (1679-1710), founder in 1702 of an early textile business and other mills that formed the nucleus of the present town of Acton. The largest and most central house of this settlement, it served as the local garrison house for protection from Indian raids made along the Massachusetts frontier during Queen Anne’s War of 1702-1713.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <font face="Verdana" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <font face="Verdana" size="3">For 202 years it was the homestead of six generations of the Faulkner family, prominent in many fields of endeavor, who carried on the processing of woolen cloth at the fulling mill across the road, said to have been one of the earliest attempts in the United States to manufacture woolen cloth on a large scale.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </div> </font> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt"> <img border="0" src="images/IWF03.jpg" width="289" height="180"></p> <font id="role_document0" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman"> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p> </span></font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman"> <font id="role_document0" face="Arial" size="2"> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2">Faulkner homestead from a photograph taken about 1880</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Utopia">Courtesy American Antiquarian Society</span></font></span><font id="role_document0" face="Arial" size="2"></div> </font> </body>