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Norfolk County in Massachusetts and New Hampshire (created in 1643 part of Massachusetts Bay Colony) had six towns shown in red and black. This is overlaid on a map of present-day MA and NH town borders in white. Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony was one of the original four counties created in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The land was ...
County Registry (area) Address Municipality location Notes Norfolk County: Registry of Deeds (all) 649 High Street: Dedham: A Norfolk County was established 10 May 1643 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony with significantly different bounds than the present county (covering an area north of the Merrimack River); it was disbanded 4 February 1680.
This list of museums in Massachusetts is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The society occupies the former Adams Academy building. The building was designed by Henry Van Brunt and William Robert Ware , the latter of whom was the architect of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts , built in 1869, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974, [ 1 ] and was designated a ...
Historic Northampton, a museum of local history in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Its collection of approximately 50,000 objects and three historic buildings is the repository of Northampton and Connecticut Valley history from the pre-contact era to the present.
O’Donnell spent 10 years as an elected Norfolk County commissioner prior to his election as register of deeds in 2004, according to his bio on the Registry website. He is a former Norfolk 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.
Main gallery. As early as 1853, Henry Orin Hildreth was calling for the creation of a historical society dedicated to the history of Dedham. [3] On February 1, 1859, Hildreth, along with Calvin Guild, Danforth Phipps Wight, Jonathan Holmes Cobb, Francis Marsh, and William Bulliard met in the office of the Dedham Institution for Savings to form an organization dedicated to "preserving and ...