409 Center Street

Lot and Block » Lots 8-9, Block 28
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Built » 1953
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Style » Cape Cod
Owner(s) » Frederick L. & K.S. Wilkerson (original owner) (liber 1700 folio 68) Paul Lembesis & Meghan O’Connell, by 1988
Remarks » Appears in assessment records as Part lots 8 & 9 Block 28. Frederick “Buddy” Wilkerson had been a prisoner of war in World War II. He survived a death march and was held in two different German prisons during 1943-1944. The front door knocker was a gift to him from a fellow prisoner of war.
Sources » Wilkerson file; House Number Plats; Real estate listing, 1988; Town Directories; Assessment records; Shantz p. 72; Meghan O’Connell oral history 3 March 1992.