Community Corner
Twenty-eighth Week, Friday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
Thank you, Richard DeSorgher for writing "Medfield Historical Minutes" for over 6 months during COVID 19. We appreciate it!
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 1925 Boston socialite and lawyer George Dabney and his wife, Mary, made plans to move to Medfield from their 298 Beacon Street, Boston home. Dabney started considerable remodeling of “Old Tannery Farm” (653 West Main Street), which he purchased from the Sewall family. It had been used by the Sewalls as a huge farm, with haying conducted across Main Street from the farm. It was also operated as a “summer resort” or “boarding house’ for Bostonians in the music and art fields, like Charles Martin Loeffler and Dennis Miller Bunker. Dabney had the house moved well back from Main Street and turned 90 degrees to face Vine Lake (Cemetery Pond)."
