Community Corner
Sixteenth 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 1899 the electric light was used in Medfield for the first time at the Excelsior Straw Hat Factory on North Street (now site of Montrose School). The hat factory signed a contract with the Thomson-Houston Company for a seventy-five horse power engine to provide incandescent lights. Three lights were also placed in front of the hat factory on North Street and one in front of the home of Edwin V. Mitchell (site of today’s post office)."
