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With the blessing of Dedham's Board of Selectmen, the General Court separated the new town of Wrentham on October 16, 1673. [ 12 ] It was burned down during King Philip's War 1675–1676.
This is a list of properties and historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, other than those within the city of Quincy and the towns of Brookline and Milton. Norfolk County contains more than 300 listings, of which the more than 100 not in the above three communities are listed below.
The Wrentham Developmental Center, formerly Wrentham State School, is a historic state-run medical facility for the treatment of psychiatric and developmental disorders. It is located on a large campus at the junction of Emerald and North Streets in Wrentham, Massachusetts. The school was authorized by the state in 1906, and the first phase of ...
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək, locally / ˈ n ɔːr f ɔːr k / NOR-fork) is a New England town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, with a population of 11,662 people at the 2020 census. [1] Formerly known as North Wrentham, Norfolk broke away to become an independent town in 1870.
Day's Academy (also known as Wrentham Academy) was a former academy in Wrentham, Massachusetts that existed between 1806 and 1875 when it became the site of Wrentham's High School. The school was chartered in 1806 for religious education through the Congregational church [ 1 ] and originally existed on Wrentham's lower common before moving to ...
Wrentham Town Hall: Designated: 14 May 1982: Reference no. 1352560: Shown in Suffolk. The Old Town Hall is a former municipal building in the High Street in Wrentham ...
In 1905, Plainville officially separated from Wrentham and became its own town. Along with bordering North Attleboro, Massachusetts, Plainville shares the Angle Tree Stone, a historic marker dividing the boundaries between the old Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Bay Colony. This is why the Angle Tree Stone is in the official town seal.