Nickerson Family Association, Inc./Caleb Nickerson Homestead

 

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Nickerson Family Association, Inc./Caleb Nickerson Homestead
PO Box 296
N. Chatham, MA
Phone: (508) 945-6086

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Chatham's Caleb Nickerson Homestead, on the Nickerson Family Association property at 1107 Orleans Road (Route 28) is open for tours every Wednesday and most Saturdays from 10:00am to 2:00pm June through September and during Hands On History special events throughout the year. Donations are accepted. Caleb Nickerson, great, great grandson of William, the founder of the town of Chatham, and his wife Elizabeth Mayo built their home on Stage Neck Road in 1772. The house stood on a bluff over looking the Oyster River for 230 years. In 2003 the house made a journey by land and sea to its present location. This pristine home of an American Revolutionary War veteran features three working fireplaces including a beehive oven and original iron cranes, period woodwork and random width wide pine floors. Experience colonial life in this restored antique cape resting on the original homestead land, within a few yard of the cabin site of the founder of Chatham.

Experience Colonial life in an antique full cape, featuring a beehive oven, period woodwork and a Colonial kitchen vegetable and herb garden. Stop by and check the progress on the construction of our post and beam outhouse and see what is growing and ready to pick in Caleb's kitchen garden. Donations welcomed. For more information call (508) 945-6086 or visit cnh.nickersonassoc.com .

Caleb Nickerson, a 7th generation descendant of William Nickerson, and his wife Priscilla Eldredge owned this home on Stage Neck Road in the early 1800s. The house stood on a bluff overlooking the Oyster River for almost 2 centuries until, in 2003, the house made a journey by land and sea to its present location. This pristine home features three working fireplaces including a beehive oven and original iron cranes, period woodwork and random width wide pine floors. Come and experience Colonial life in this restored antique cape which now rests on the original homestead land, a few yards from the cabin site of William Nickerson, founder of Chatham.