Community Corner
Fifth Week - Tuesday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"About 1656 a law was passed that every town should have an inn or public house (serving ale and meals); and that one was opened here in Medfield by Joshua Fisher, located in part of the house currently at 435 Main Street, across from the Baptist Church. Two years later the selectmen were allowed, at the town’s expense, a dinner at the inn. The annual dinner was the extent of the selectmen’s pay for many years."
