Community Corner
Fortieth Week, Sunday'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.
"In 1702 it was decided to move the December 21, 1702 scheduled Town Meeting out of the Meetinghouse (site of today’s Unitarian Universalist First Parish Church on North Street). It was voted “that the town meeting be moved from the “dilapidated” meetinghouse to the ordinary.” There is no clue to the location of the “ordinary,” except that Eleazar Wheelock was called “innholder” and had a tavern on the site of today’s town hall. A new Meetinghouse was built in 1706 and town meetings returned to that location."
