Baron Wilkes

Title:: Baron Wilkes
Description:: Shown with his groom is Col. John E. Thayer's famous Baron Wilkes. Thayer had a great interest in breeding fine harness horses at his Maplehurst Stock Farm, which was located at the end of a long drive on Goss Lane at the west end of Prescott Street in South Lancaster. To increase interest in fine harness horses, he organized and incorporated the Clinton-Lancaster Driving Park Association, which was located in the Greeley Hill area of Clinton.
Date:: [ca. 1850–2000]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Portrait photographs
Location:: Lancaster Historical Society
Collection (local):: Photo Archives of the Lancaster (MA) Historical Society
Subjects:: Horses
Places:: Massachusetts > Worcester (county) > Lancaster
Extent:: 1 photograph
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Notes (publications):: Published in: Images of America, Lancaster / Heather Maurer Lennon. Charleston, SC ; Chicago IL ; Portsmouth NH ; San Francisco CA. : Arcadia Publishing, 2001
Identifier:: 13232173