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Each village supported at least one schoolhouse. As the market for iron ore declined in the latter part of the 19th century, Carver began cranberry farming as a new use for the town's swamp lands. Farmers began growing cranberries in the 1870s, and by 1900 it was Carver's farmers who raised a fifth of all cranberries grown in the United States.
South Carver is a village in the town of Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. South Carver is the location of the main entrance to the Myles Standish State Forest and of the Edaville Railroad and King Richard's Faire. [1] [2] The cultivation and processing of cranberries is the predominant economic activity in South Carver. [3]
Carver: Town Plymouth Open town meeting 11,645 39.7 sq mi (102.82 km 2) ... Fair Haven Village: Fairhaven: Bristol: Falls Fight: Bernardston: Franklin: Falltown ...
The Salem Village Historic District encompasses a collection of properties from the early center of Salem Village, as Danvers, Massachusetts was known in the 17th century. The district includes an irregular pattern of properties along Centre, Hobart, Ingersoll, and Collins Streets, as far north as Brentwood Circle, and south to Mello Parkway. [ 2 ]
The route turns northward through the town of Carver, passing Edaville Railroad and the King Richard's Faire grounds as well as the center of town. In North Carver the town intersects U.S. Route 44 just west of where that route becomes a four-lane freeway. Before the freeway was completed, the route had a short concurrency between its current ...
Map of Hanover, Massachusetts from 1849. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 15.7 square miles (41 km 2), of which 15.6 square miles (40 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2), or 0.70%, is water.
The district extends from the junction of Carlisle Road and Griffin Road, westward along Carlisle Road to a triangular green where it meets Concord Road and Old Lowell Road. The oldest building in the village is the Parker Village Schoolhouse, built in 1787 out of brick and wood, and restored in the 1990s.
Bay Village is the smallest officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. As of 2010 [update] , its population was approximately 1,312 residents living in 837 housing units, most of which are small brick rowhouses .