Waltham Historical Society

The Jackson Homestead is located at 527 Washington Street, in Newton, Massachusetts.

It is a noteworthy house that filled in as a station on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War.

It was worked in 1809 in the Federal style by Timothy Jackson on his family's ranch.

His child William Jackson lived in it from 1820 until his passing.

William Jackson was an abolitionist and was dynamic in governmental issues on the neighborhood, state, and national levels and served in the United States Congress from 1833 to 1837.

The house was involved by his family until the point when 1932 when it was leased.

In 1949 it was given to the city of Newton and in 1950 the Newton History Museum was set up there.