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For several decades starting in the 1920s, South Attleboro was known for Wightman's Diner on Boston Post Road (aka Washington Street, or U.S. Route 1). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The diner started out as a lunch wagon in 1923, and expanded by connecting multiple lunch cars by the Worcester Lunch Car Company and Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company . [ 4 ]
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a major north–south U.S. Route in the state of Massachusetts, traveling through Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Bristol counties. The portion of US 1 south of Boston is also known as the Boston–Providence Turnpike , Washington Street , or the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike, and portions north of Boston are known ...
In pre-Colonial times, the land was the site of the Bay Path, a major Native American trail to Narragansett Bay, the Seekonk River, and Boston.English settlers arrived in the area in 1634 [6] and established the settlement of Rehoboth—which included the modern day municipalities of North Attleborough, Attleboro, Somerset, Seekonk, as well as parts of Rhode Island—from land sold to them by ...
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The H.F. Barrows Manufacturing Company Building, now the North Attleborough Police Station, is a historic industrial building in North Attleborough, Massachusetts.The elegant brick building was built in 1905–06, and was home for many years to one of the town's most successful jewelry businesses.
Attleboro is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It was once known as "The Jewelry Capital of the World" for its many jewelry manufacturers. According to the 2020 census, Attleboro had a population of 46,461. [4] Attleboro is the fourth-largest municipality in Bristol County, Behind New Bedford, Fall River, and Taunton. It ...
The district is located along this road, extending south from the village center of North Attleborough, while the principal transportation route (United States Route 1) has been relocated eastward. A variety of high quality residential houses, dating from the 18th to the mid-20th century, line this section of road.
South Attleboro station is located under the Newport Avenue overpass at the far southern edge of Attleboro, just 500 feet (150 m) from the Rhode Island line. [3]The station has two 780-foot (240 m)-long side platforms bracketing the two tracks of the Northeast Corridor; only the north platform is in use. [4]