The Harlow Old Fort House is a

First Period First Period is an American architecture style in the time period between approximately 1626 and 1725, used by British colonists during the earliest English settlements in United States, particularly in Massachusetts and Virginia and later in ...

historic house at 119 Sandwich Street in

Plymouth, Massachusetts Plymouth (; historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as ...

History

According to legend, Sergeant William Harlow built the house in 1677 using timbers from the Pilgrims' original fort on

Burial Hill Burial Hill is a historic cemetery or burying ground on School Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Established in the 17th century, it is the burial site of several Pilgrims, the founding settlers of Plymouth Colony. It was listed on the Nat ...

, which they had built in 1621–1622. Harlow received permission to use the timbers after the fort was torn down at the end of

King Philip's War King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England coloni ...

in 1677. The house was surveyed by an architectural historian in 1996, who determined a construction date of 1700 or later. The Harlow family owned the house for nearly 250 years until the

Plymouth Antiquarian Society The Plymouth Antiquarian Society is a historical organization in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Society, founded in 1919, owns and maintains the Harlow Old Fort House, the Spooner House, the Hedge House, and an ancient Native American site, Sacri ...

acquired it and hired

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to restore the house. The Antiquarian Society opened it to the public in 1921. In 1974, the house was added to the

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. It is still open to the public and features seventeenth-century re-enactors.

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Burial Hill Fort in Plymouth MA.jpg,

Fort, where some of the home's timbers may have come from Plimoth Plantation fort and meeting house.jpg, Fort recreation at

Plimoth Plantation Plimoth Patuxet is a complex of living history museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts, founded in 1947. Formerly Plimoth Plantation, it replicates the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by the English coloni ...

William Harlow House in Plymouth MA.jpg, Harlow House

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External links

Harlow Family websitePlymouth Antiquarian Society
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