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Hinckley House

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Asa Norton, a fur trapper and trader, and his wife, Anna, built this house and planted the live oaks around 1811. After fire damaged the home, steamboat captain Oramel Hinckley rebuilt it in the 1830s. The family cemetery, dating to 1803, lies at the rear of the home.
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