Community Corner
Twenty-seventh Week, Wednesday'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.
"Medfield passed an historic district bylaw and created the John Metcalf Historic District during the 1989 annual town meeting. This first historic district included four houses on West Main Street and the oldest portion of Vine Lake Cemetery. The district was enlarged to include a total of sixteen historic buildings in 1996. The second historic district, established in 1994, included 33 buildings at the Medfield State Hospital and the historic landscape surrounding the buildings. A third district, the Clark-Kingsbury Farm Historic District on Spring Street, was approved at the 1997 Town Meeting. This provides some protection to the unique grouping of the 18th century farm house, outbuildings, and pond with grist mill by Kingsbury Pond.. A fourth Historic District covers much of the center of town."
