[
  {
    "finding": "Two current parcels define this collection.",
    "evidence": "FY2026 MassGIS: 420 State Road, lot 16-96, 154,202 sq ft; 424 State Road, lot 16-96-3, 162,043 sq ft. Both list Options in Education Inc.",
    "source_ids": [
      "P01"
    ],
    "confidence": "Direct current assessor record."
  },
  {
    "finding": "The current school dates to 1996.",
    "evidence": "The school parcel has assessor year built 1996. A recorded deed dated 29 April 1996 is indexed to Options in Education Inc. Contemporary September 1996 coverage describes new construction. The school history gives an opening date of 16 September 1996.",
    "source_ids": [
      "P01",
      "P02",
      "N1996b",
      "R-SCHOOL"
    ],
    "confidence": "Strong agreement across independent dated records."
  },
  {
    "finding": "The tract was mapped as woodland before the school.",
    "evidence": "The 1972 USGS quadrangle has green woodland tint across the current parcel overlay. Its revision used 1969 aerial photographs and was field checked in 1972.",
    "source_ids": [
      "T1972"
    ],
    "confidence": "Map-based interpretation; not a parcel survey or proof of every earlier use."
  },
  {
    "finding": "No earlier building at the exact school footprint has been identified in this cache.",
    "evidence": "The acquired pre-school maps are too generalized to prove the absence of small buildings. The 1951 map does not encode woodland in the same way as the 1972 sheet. A pre-1996 aerial and the complete title chain remain important missing evidence.",
    "source_ids": [
      "T1951",
      "T1972",
      "R-1994",
      "P02"
    ],
    "confidence": "Open question, not a finding of permanent vacancy."
  },
  {
    "finding": "The wider historical record reaches much farther back than the parcel evidence.",
    "evidence": "An acquired 1698 map and nineteenth-century community papers document the wider Island and Christiantown setting. Tribal history describes Wampanoag presence on Noepe for at least 10,000 years. No archaeological or title connection to this exact tract was established.",
    "source_ids": [
      "H1698",
      "Dc821mx42g",
      "D0p09bk77g",
      "D7366dr72r",
      "R-TRIBE"
    ],
    "confidence": "Regional context only."
  }
]