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Norton is approximately 27 miles south-southwest of Boston, and 15 miles northeast of Providence, Rhode Island. Norton is served by Interstate 495 and Massachusetts Routes 123 and 140, which meet at the center of town. There is an exit off I-495 for Route 123 in the eastern part of town, and 140's exit to the interstate lies just north of the ...
The Norton Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the town center and adjacent Wheaton College campus in Norton, Massachusetts.It includes the town's major civic buildings, as well as its oldest surviving house, in a spacious New England town center organized around the town common at the junction of Massachusetts Routes 123 and 140.
Church on the Hill, in Berkshire County House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Essex County Sankaty Head Light, in Nantucket Faneuil Hall, Boston, Suffolk County The Flying Horses Carousel, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County The Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, Hampshire and Worcester Counties The PT 796, Fall River, Bristol County The Alvah Stone Mill, Montague, Franklin County
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 Norton section is listed as "Old Bay Road", while that in Easton is listed as "Bay Road". [1] Some of the oldest houses in the region are found along the street, for example the Joseph White House in Norton, which may have been built as early as 1696 by one of the original colonial landowners of the area.
The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Georgian style, wood-framed house was built in 1797 for the Reverend Pitt Clarke, who served as the town's minister for 42 years.The house's main facade is symmetrically arranged, five bays wide, with a center entry that has pilasters supporting a gabled pediment, and a fanlight above the door.
Norton Furnace is a ghost town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. [1] The settlement was located approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) south of Norton . The general area where Norton Furnace was located, between Norton and Oakland , is today known as Meadowbrook (at Meadow Brook Pond [ 2 ] ).
Chartley is a village in Norton, Massachusetts.It has its own post office, near the Attleboro line along Route 123, with zip code 02712.. Some notable places and historic locations in Chartley include Chartley Pond, formed by excavations for iron in the 17th and 18th centuries; [1] Chartley Methodist Church; Chartley Train Station which operated in the early and mid-1900s; and Chartley Country ...