Sachem Rock Farm
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| Location | East Bridgewater, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°1′6″N 70°57′6″W / 42.01833°N 70.95167°WCoordinates: 42°1′6″N 70°57′6″W / 42.01833°N 70.95167°W |
| Area | 31.6 acres (12.8 ha) |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| Governing body | Local |
| NRHP Reference # |
06001129 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 11, 2006 |
Sachem Rock Farm is a historic farm at 355 Plymouth Street in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The farm location is important for a variety of reasons. Its earliest historical association is with the Wampanoag people, who are known to have used the area, particularly around Sachem Rock, a granite oucrop that is the property's high point, prior to European contact. Sachem Rock itself is historically significant as the site of a meeting in 1649 between English settlers from the Plymouth Colony, including Myles Standish, with the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit. In this meeting the colonists purchased rights to a large tract of land, including East and West Bridgewater, Bridgewater, and Brockton.[2]
The land around Sachem Rock was settled by 1665, with a farm and gristmill nearby on the Satucket River, and has seen agricultural uses ever since. The oldest buildings to survive are a complex of barns and other outbuildings built c. 1870 by Thomas Hewitt. The Hewitt farmhouse, built in 1869, burned down in 1926, and was replaced by the present two-story Colonial Revival wood frame house by Henry Moorhouse. The property was purchased by the Town of East Bridgewater in 1998,[2] and is now open to the public.
The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1] It is expected to yield archaeologically significant finds concerning its pre-contact uses, as well as the sites of houses, outbuildings, and industrial mills from the colonial period through the 19th century.[2]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NRHP nomination for Sachem Rock Farm". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
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