Harger Place (Gone), Sheets Road, Granville, MA
The Harger place was owned by Civil War veteran Nelson Harger, 46th Mass. Infantry (b. 08 Mar 1836, d. 28 Oct 1912) and his wife Harriet Hunt Harger (b. ?, d. 15 Apr 1931).<br /><br />Their daughter Nelsie married Charles Sheets on 26 Sep 1889. This house is now gone but it was in the Sheets family for many years.<br /><br /><a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1270">CLICK HERE</a> for photos of the Harger family.<br /><br />This house was the scene of a tragic murder in 1911. <a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1433">CLICK HERE</a> for related information.<br /><br />The last photo is unidentified in the museum collection but is clearly of the Harger house at the end of its life, with the windows removed and the cellar hatchway broken through. A makeshift shed roof was added over the entry at some point.
House: Unknown
Photos: Unknown but in order of age with oldest at the top of the page.
Digital Images: Mabel Root Henry Historical Museum, 2 Granby Road, Granville, MA. 01034
Murder In West Granville, 1911
NOTE: You will need to use the "enlarge" (+ icon) to make the newspaper type in the viewing windows legible. <br /><br />The 30 Sep 1911 Springfield Daily News account of a tragic murder in West Granville.<br /><br />The article mentions a photo (shown here; the two men in the center of the photo committed the murder) used to identify the killers. It was a George Aldrich photo the soon-to-be murderers had asked him to take so they could send it to their friends back in the old country to show them how well they were doing in America. But fate would soon deal them a new hand.<br /><br />One of the killers went to the electric chair, the other later died of "brain disease."<br /><br />This occurred at the Harger place on what is now Sheets Road. The house is gone but you can see it by <strong><a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/428">CLICKING HERE</a></strong>.<br /><br />The map location below is <span style="text-decoration:underline;">estimated</span> and not based on the discovery of the actual location of the foundation hole.
September 1911 to June 1913
Springfield Daily News