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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. In the nineteenth century, Wrentham was the site of Day's Academy. For a short time, Wrentham was the residence of the educational reformer Horace Mann.
The present church is a Greek Revival structure built in 1834 for a congregation (Wrentham's first) formed in 1692. The church, which occupies a prominent position in the center of Wrentham, has a four-stage tower (rebuilt after the New England Hurricane of 1938), and a tetrastyle Doric portico. The building underwent a modernizing renovation ...
Its address is just inside Wrentham's town limits. It was established to serve the residents of the Pondville village, which was first settled in the 1730s. The cemetery is laid out on a series of terraces that rise from Everett Street to the west, with the oldest graves in the southwest corner, near the Wrentham line.
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 ...
Mount Saint Mary’s Abbey is a monastic community of some fifty Trappistine nuns in Wrentham, Massachusetts.The more complete, formal name of the Order is the Cistercians of the Strict Observance, whose founding at Cîteaux, France dates back to 1098.
The Roebuck Tavern is a historic tavern at 21 Dedham Street in Wrentham, Massachusetts.The two-story Federal style structure was built in 1795 by David Fisher, whose family was one of the earliest to settle the area in the 17th century.
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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.