Art Museum
Job Lane Farm Museum
295 North Rd, Bedford, MA
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The Job Lane Farm Museum has been a landmark for over three hundred years. Here is its story: While it appears that Native Americans never settled on this land, in former days they journeyed the trails nearby, and they knew of the iron and Sulphur springs that bubble up into a shallow lake half a mile to the east. Land ownership began in 1637, when the Massachusetts Great and General Court granted Governor John Winthrop about 1500 acres, from Billerica, in what is now Bedford. Winthrop did not clear any of the land or build upon it. In 1664 the Governor’s grandson, having inherited the land, transferred it to house wright Job Lane (c.1620-1697) in exchange for a house that Lane built him in Connecticut. Lane did improve the land and moved his family here.
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