Captain Thomas Wheeler House

1630 - 1930

Site of first house in Acton, built by Captain Thomas Wheeler in 1668. He was commissioned to keep fifty cattle for the inhabitants and at night protect them in a yard from wild beasts. He was wounded by the Indians in King Philip's War.

Marker is on Alcott Street 0.2 miles south of Concord Road.

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