Different views of this resource: (click for access this view) Resource courtesy of Spencer Research Library Our first residents Mr. and Mrs. Achilles B. Wade were perhaps our earliest residents in Lawrence. When A.B. Wade made the trip to California in April of 1850, he camped on top of Mount Oread. At that time he looked over the valley below and decided he would come back at some future date and build a house "by the big tree down by the river." In June, 1854, he returned and built a log cabin on that location, it being at the north end of Indiana Street just east of the water plant. Clark Stearns came shortly after the Wades and built a cabin at 616 Massachusetts St. His cabin was completed one day ahead of that of Mr. Wade. Type: image Project: WJHS Grant Temporal coverage: 1850's Creator: Unknown Printable Page Project Coordinator Email Project Coordinator / Lawrence Public Schools This site made possible by • the National Endowment for the Humanities • the Southwestern Bell Foundation Project Partners • The Lawrence Journal-World • Watkins Community Museum of History • Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas