“I am in a way a Lincoln woman"
In a 1888 letter to George Grosvenor Tarbell, whose donation built this library, noted popular author Jane Goodwin Austin wrote: “I am in a way a Lincoln woman, having lived there about ten years and left that Stony Monument of a House as a Memorial.”
The stone house Austin was referring to still sits on a small hill located at the intersection of Lincoln Road and MacIntosh Lane. Her husband Loring, whom she had married in 1850, had bought the property in 1852; the couple moved into the house in 1853. They sold the property in 1860 and moved to Concord, where they took up residence in a new home in 1863.