Adams-Crocker-Fish House
449 Willow St., Barnstable, MAIn 1887 Charles H. Fish bought a piece of cleared land together with dwelling house, woodshed and other buildings from his grandfather, Isaac Fish who kept a life estate. In 1856 Isaac Fish bought land and a dwelling house from Mercy Crocker. She had been willed the property of a dwelling house, a barn and two acres of land adjacent to the house by the will of her husband Lemuel Crocker in 1848. Lemuel Crocker had purchased the property from John A. Blossom in 1832 and it was part of the homestead estate formerly owned and occupied by the late Obadiah Adams. John A. Blossom had purchased all the real and personal estate of Obadiah Adams in 1831. Local tradition, as related by a member of the Henry Johnson family asserts that "the house was moved from a location near the intersection of Crooked Cartway and Willow Street where it went toward Mystic Lake and South Sandwich." A house owned by Isaac Fish is shown at that location on the 1858 map. The midcape highway now runs through the area.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
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