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house at site of first church built 1662 and burned by Indians in 1692. On
the National Register of Historic Places.
646-4775.
Wells Auto Museum
, US 1. Over 80 vehicles dating from 1900-1963.
Nickelodeons and antique arcade.
646-9064.
Wells Historical Society
, Post Road.
646-4775.
West Buxton
Buxton-Hollis Historical Society
.
727-3368.
Yarmouth
Yarmouth Historical Society
, Museum of Yarmouth History and
Merrill Memorial Library, Main Street.
846-6259.
Old Ledge School
(1738), West Main Street. A pre-revolutionary war
one-room school house which was reconstructed by the Yarmouth Histor-
ical Society in 1973.
846-6259.
York
Sayward-Wheeler House
(1718), 79 Barrel Lane Ext., York Harbor.
Remodeled and enlarged in the 1760s by Jonathan Sayward, a local mer-
chant and civic leader. Owned by the Society to Preserve New England
Antiquities.
603-436-3205.
Old York Historical Society
, Lindsay Road,
363-4974. The Old York
Historical Society offers guided tours of the following historic buildings.
Elizabeth Perkins House
(1730), South Side Road, Colonial
Revival House retains Perkins family furnishings, plus an-
tiques collected from world travels.
Emerson-Wilcox House
(1742), Lindsay Road and York
Street (Route 1A). Served as a general store, tailor shop, tav-
ern, post office, and dwelling in 18th and 19th centuries.
George A. Marshall Store Building
, Lindsay Road. 19th-
century general store situated on the Hancock Wharf serves
as a gallery for revolving exhibits relating to the history of
York.
Jefferds Tavern
, Lindsay Road, just off Route 1A. Saltbox
tavern (mid-18th century) originally located in Wells.
John Hancock Warehouse
, Lindsay Road. 18th-century
warehouse with exhibits on life and industry on the York
River.
