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