Community Corner
Twenty-sixth Week, Saturday'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.
"Starting in the early 1900s several wealthy Bostonians began to buy up large farms here in town and convert them into summer homes and estates becoming gentlemen farmers. From Boston came the cream of Boston society: Dr. Charles Inches, Dr Henry Angell, Dr. Henry Lee Morse, Helen McElwain, Dr. Joel Goldthwaite, Charles Martin Loeffler, Davenport Brown, Louise Jewell, Hannah Adams Pfaff, and others who all summered here. Their estates now had landscaped lawns, fountains and fish ponds; several had tennis courts, Dr. Inches put in the first inground swimming pool at his estate, the old Henry Adams Homestead on 72 Elm Street at Mill Brook."
