The Mysteries at the far end of the Uxbridge Treaty House

By |2025-12-16T23:35:53-07:00March 25, 2024|Favorites, LLK-LostLordKeeperBlog, LLK-UxbridgeTreatyHouse|

Anyone who has ever parked at the Crown and Treaty in Uxbridge has noticed the collection of oddities that is the far end of the Treaty House. Contrasting with the lovely main face of the existing building and the towering and artful chimney structures on its backside, the far end feels architecturally discordant, improvised and beat up. Things just don't seem to make sense on that end of the building. And the closer you look, the stranger it gets...

Gunter’s Chains and Satellite Imagery: An Analysis of the 1775 Survey Plan at Uxbridge

By |2025-12-16T23:36:16-07:00March 11, 2024|LLK-LostLordKeeperBlog, LLK-UxbridgeTreatyHouse|

A unique 1775 survey plan from the Uxbridge Archives is analyzed using modern tools and satellite imagery, resulting in some surprising insights into the spatial accuracy of this early engineering document.

The “Crown and Treaty”: Home of the 1645 Uxbridge Treaty Negotiations

By |2025-12-16T23:41:40-07:00January 13, 2020|LLK-LostLordKeeperBlog, LLK-UxbridgeTreatyHouse|

If time and circumstance have rendered the "Crown and Treaty" a diminished but still graceful woman of age, my work over the last many months has revealed that it wasn't always so. Nearly 400 years ago, when the newly appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Court, Sir Richard Lane, and the other peace commissioners walked through her doors, she was the spectacular and defiant diva who "owned" that end of town...

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