108 Maple St., Sterling, Massachusetts. County/parish: Worcester.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 13, 2000. NRIS 00001036.
4 contributing buildings. 3 contributing sites.Also known as:
The Sawyer Homestead was a historic house at 108 Maple Street in Sterling, Massachusetts. With an estimated construction date of 1756, the house was one of Sterling's oldest surviving structures, before it was destroyed by an arsonist in 2007. It was also notable as the birthplace of Mary Sawyer, who alleged she was the subject of the American children's nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The Sawyer family, whose descendants still own the property, have had a reproduction of the house built on its site.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797450