|Frances W. Warren's 1978 map of the original size of Stow. MA|
Click on maps to enlarge. (Courtesy Stow Historical Society)
|Map of Harvard, MA, showing the strip across|
the middle that had come from Stow, described as
200 rods (0.625 miles) wide. Town of Shirley,
was created later from southwest part of Groton.
Courtesy Harvard Historical Society
The annexation of that
|Top of the stone reads GROTON STOW LEG OLD CORNER. Apparently|
this marker was installed in 1848 to indicate where the northwest corner of
Stow Leg had been until taken over by Town of Shirley in 1765.
Much of the work on this topic, including the "