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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The farm of orator and statesman Daniel Webster will be preserved under a deal announced Thursday after it had been slated to become a housing development.
The Trust for Public Land put together the $2.5 million deal with help from the state and federal governments, private donors and the state's public-private Land and Community Heritage Investment Program. The dozen buildings on the Franklin property were sold to a company started by Alex Ray, owner of the Common Man chain of restaurants, the trust said in a written statement.
Ray plans to use the buildings for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program, a culinary program and possibly a school.
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