Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Adams Academy
Adams Building
Adams National Historic Site
Adams, John Quincy, Birthplace
Adams, John, Birthplace
Adams, John, School
Alden, Arthur, House
All Souls Church
Ames Schoolhouse
Anderson, Larz, Park Historic District
Arcade Building
Bainbridge, Randolph, House
Barker, George A., House
Barker, Henry F., House
Barnes House
Barnicoat, S. H., Monuments
Bateman, William R., House
Baxter Street Historic District
Baxter-King House
Beacon Street Historic District
Beaconsfield Terraces Historic District
Belcher, Jonathan, House
Belcher-Rowe House
Bent, G.H., Company Factory
Bethany Congregational Church
Blue Hills Headquarters
Blue Hills Parkway
Blue Hills Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Bowditch, William Ingersoll, House
Boyden, Seth, House
Brandegee Estate
Brookline Town Green Historic District
Brookline Village Commercial District
Brookwood Farm
Brown-Hodgkinson House
Brush Hill Historic District
Building at 1-7 Moscow Street
Building at 30-34 Station Street
Building at 51 Hunt Street
Burgess, Charles H., House
Burgess, Frank, House
Burgin, Clarence, House
Cabot, Lewis, Estate
Candler Cottage
Canton Corner Historic District
Canton Viaduct
Carpenter, Ezra, House
Cary, Otis, House
Caryl, Benjamin, House
Central Fire Station
Central Square Historic District
Chestnut Hill Historic Distric
Chickatawbut Observation Tower
Child, Isaac, House
Christ Church
Christ Church Burial Ground
Clapp, Lucius, Memorial
Cobb's Tavern
Coddington School
Cohasset Central Cemetery
Cohasset Common Historic District
Colburn School-High Street Historic District
Comfort Station
Corey, Timothy, House No. 1
Corey, Timothy, House No. 2
Cottage Farm Historic District
Cranch School
Crane, Frank W., House
Crane, Thomas, Public Library
Curtis, Noah, House
Curtis, Thomas, House
Cypress-Emerson Historic District
Davenport Estate Historic District
Davis, Dr. Frank, House
Davis, Robert S., House
Davis, Thomas Aspinwall, House
Day, Fred Holland, House
Dean Junior College Historic District
Dedham Village Historic District
Devotion, Edward, House
Dicey, Russell M., House
Dogget, Solon, House
Dorothy Q Apartments
Douglass, Alfred, House
Dutch House, The
Dwight-Derby House
Eaton-Moulton Mill
Eliot Memorial Bridge
Elks Building
Ellice School
Elliot, Gen. Simon, House
Elm Bank
Elm Park and Isaac Sprague Memorial Tower
Emmett Cottage
Endicott Estate
Eustis Estate Historic District
Fairbanks House
Faxon House
Fernwood
Fire Station No. 7
First Baptist Church of Medfield
First Baptist Church of Wollaston
First Parish Unitarian Church
Fisher Hill Historic District
Fisher Hill Reservoir and Gatehouse
Fisher School-High Street Historic District
Fogg Building
Fogg Library
Forbes Hill Standpipe
Forbes, Capt. Robert B., House
Fore River Club House
Foxboro Grange Hall
Foxborough Pumping Station
Foxborough State Hospital
Francis, Dr. Tappan Eustis, House
Franklin Common Historic District
Front Street Historic District
Fuller Brook Park
Fuller, Amos, House
Fuller, Peter, Building
Fuller, Robert, House
Furnace Brook Parkway
Glover House
Goddard, John, House
Government Island Historic District
Graffam Development Historic District
Granite Trust Company
Great Blue Hill Observation Tower
Great Blue Hill Weather Observatory
Green Hill Historic District
Grover, Emery, Building
Hagerty, Josephine M., House
Halloran, John, House
Hammond Pond Parkway
Hancock Cemetery
Hardwick House
Harris, John, House and Farm
Heath, Charles, House
Heath, Ebenezer, House
Hersey, Ebenezer B., House
Holbrook Square Historic District
Holbrook, Dr. Amos, House
Holyhood Cemetery
Hotel Adelaide
Hotel Kempsford
House at 105 Marion Street
House at 105 President's Lane
House at 12 Linden Street
House at 12 Vernon Street
House at 12-16 Corey Road
House at 15 Gilmore Street
House at 155 Reservoir
House at 156 Mason Terrace
House at 19 Linden Street
House at 20 Sterling Street
House at 23-25 Prout Street
House at 25 High School Avenue
House at 25 Stanton Road
House at 32 Bayview Avenue
House at 38-40 Webster Place
House at 4 Perry Street
House at 44 Linden Street
House at 44 Stanton Road
House at 5 Lincoln Road
House at 53 Linden Street
House at 83 Penniman Place
House at 89 Rawson Road and 86 Colburne Crescent
House at 9 Linden Street
House at 92 Willard Street
House at 94 Grandview Avenue
Houses at 76-96 Harvard Avenue
Hunnewell Estates Historic District
Hutchinson's, Gov. Thomas, Ha-ha
Inness-Fitts House and Studio/Barn
Intermediate Building
Jackson, Thaddeus, House
Jefferson School
Jewell, David L., House
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site (Additional Documentation)
Kilsyth Terrace
Kingsbury-Whitaker House
Lennon, Edward J., House
Lewis, Deacon Willard, House
Lewis, Joshua, House
Linden Park
Linden Square
Longwood Historic District
Lothrop, Caleb, House
Lynch-O'Gorman House
Marsh, Charles, House
Marsh, Edwin W., House
Masonic Temple
Massachusetts Fields School
McIntire, Herman, House
McIntosh Corner Historic District
Medfield State Hospital
Medway Village Historic District
Memorial Hall
Metropolitan District Commission Stable
Milestone
Milestone
Miller, Edward, House
Millis Center Historic District
Mills, Davis, House
Milton Cemetery
Milton Centre Historic District
Milton Hill Historic District
Minot, George R., House
Morse, Amos, House
Moswetuset Hummock
Mount Wollaston Cemetery
Munroe Building
Murphy, William, House
Needham Town Hall Historic District
Nelson, John R., House
New England Telephone Building
Newcomb Place
Nightengale House
Nightengale, Solomon, House
Norfolk County Courthouse
Norfolk Grange Hall
North Bellingham Cemetery and Oak Hill Cemetery
Norwood Memorial Municipal Building
Nowland, J. Martin, House
Oak Grove Farm
Old Barn
Old South Union Church
Olmsted Park System
Olmsted, Frederick Law, House, National Historic Site
Original Congregational Church of Wrentham
Orrock, Rev. John, House
Paine Estate
Partridge, John, House
Paul's Bridge
Peak House
Perkins Estate
Pettengill, C. F., House
Pill Hill Historic District
Pinkham House
Plimpton-Winter House
Pond Street School
Pondville Cemetery
Ponkapoag Camp of Appalachian Mountain Club
Pratt Historic Building
Pratt, Capt. Josiah, House
Pratt-Faxon House
Prospect Hill Cemetery
Quincy Electric Light and Power Company Station
Quincy Granite Railway
Quincy Granite Railway Incline
Quincy Homestead
Quincy Point Fire Station
Quincy Police Station
Quincy Savings Bank
Quincy School
Quincy Shore Drive
Quincy Town Hall
Quincy Water Company Pumping Station
Quincy, Josiah, House
Quincy, Josiah, House
Rabbit Hill Historic District
Railway Village Historic District
Record, Jonathan Dexter, House
Red Brick School
Redman Farm House
Reed, Timothy, House
Refreshment Pavillion
Reservoir Park
Richards, Alfred H., House
Richmond Court
Ritchie Building
Roberts School
Rockwood Road Historic District
Roebuck Tavern
Roughwood
Saint Aidan's Church and Rectory
Saint Mary of the Assumption Church, Rectory, School and Convent
Saint Paul's Church, Chapel, and Parish House
Saint Paul's Rectory
Salem Lutheran Church
Sargent's Pond
Scott's Woods Historic District
Sea Street Historic District
Second Unitarian Church
Sharon Historic District
Sidelinger, George A., House
Smith, A. C., & Co. Gas Station
Smith, James, House
South Junior High School
Spear, Seth, Homestead
Spurr, Eliphalet, House
St. Mark's Methodist Church
Standish, James H., House
Stetson Hall
Stoneholm
Stoughton Railroad Station
Strathmore Road Historic District
Suffolk Resolves House
Sullivan's Corner Historic District
Thayer Public Library
Thayer, Gen. Sylvanus, House
Tolman-Gay House
Toussaint, Winand, House
Town Stable
Townsend House
Tuckerman, William F., House
Turner, Stephen, House
Twitchell, Ginery, House
United First Parish Church (Unitarian) of Quincy
US Post Office-Milton Main
US Post Office-Quincy Main
US Post Office-Weymouth Landing
Vine Lake Cemetery
Walnut Hills Cemetery
Walpole Town Hall
Warelands
Washington School
Wellesley Congregational Church and Cemetery
Wellesley Farms Railroad Station
Wellesley Hills Branch Library
Wellesley Town Hall
West Roxbury Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Weymouth Civic District
Weymouth Meeting House Historic District
White Place Historic District
White, Benjamin, House
White, Charles E., House
Whitney, Israel, House
Wilber, Charles R., School
Wilson, Capt. John, House and Bates Ship Chandlery
Winfield House
Wollaston Branch, Thomas Crane Public Library
Wollaston Congregational Church
Wollaston Fire Station
Wollaston Theatre
Wollaston Unitarian Church
Woodward Institute
Wrentham State School
A4D-2 (A-4B) Skyhawk
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams Birthplace
Abigail Adams Cairn
Adams Academy
Adams National Historical Park
Anderson Carriage House
Antoine and Wilson Memorial
Bellingham SoldierÂ’s Monument
Bellingham Town Center
Bellingham Town Center
Bellingham Veterans Monument
Birthplace of George Herbert Walker Bush
Birthplace of Horace Mann
Birthplace of U.S. Copper Industry
Braintree
Burns
Canton Viaduct
Centre Burial Ground
Charles Vaughan Wells
Civil War Memorial
Dedham
Dedham Boat Club
Domenico DÂ’Alessandro
East Foxborough
Entering Baker Street Historic District
Eric Lee Hatch
Etta M. Hutchins
Fairbanks House
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
First Meeting House in Wrentham
First School House in Weymouth
First Settler / Roads and Boundaries
First Wrentham School House
Foxborough State Hospital Cemetery
George F. Bryan
Governor Richard Bellingham
Hancock Cemetery
Helen Adams Keller
Henry Adams
History of NAS South Weymouth
Indian Trail
John Adams
John Hancock Birth Site
John Hancock Birth Site
Korean Conflict Memorial
Korean War Memorial
Lakeview
Liberty Tree Park
Lyndon F. Murray Memorial Building
Maple Street North Bellingham
Memorial Hall
Minot's Ledge Lighthouse
Morseville
Moswetuset Hummock
Noah Alden
Old House
Old Meeting House Common
Operation Iraqi Freedom Memorial
Original Town Common
Paineburgh-Foxvale
Peak House
Plainville 9/11 Memorial
Plainville Korean War Memorial
Plainville Vietnam War Memorial
Plainville World War I Memorial
Plainville World War II Memorial
Ponkapoag Plantation
Putterham School
Sailors Home Cemetery
Shea Field Memorial Grove
Spanish-American War Memorial
The Dorchester School Farm
The First Church in Weymouth
The Granite Railway
The Lodge at Foxborough
The Men of Quincy, Mass.
The Powder House
The Reservoir on Powder House Hill / The Town House
The Spanish American War Memorial
The Town Lot
Three Adams Brothers
Town Center
Town of Randolph
Union Straw Works / Birth of the Straw Hat Industry
United First Parish Church
Veterans Memorial
Vietnam Conflict Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial
Wading River Farm
William Field
William Hutchinson's Grant
William Reynolds Dimmock LL.D.
World War I Memorial
World War II Memorial
World War II Memorial
World War Memorial
In the 1630s, English settlers established the town of Dedham, which would become the first town within what is now Norfolk County. The town served as a political and administrative center for the surrounding area. Over time, more towns were established, including Wrentham, Franklin, and Stoughton, leading to the county's official formation in 1793.
Norfolk County played a significant role during the American Revolution. Many residents actively participated in the war effort, with some joining the Continental Army and others serving as Minutemen. The county was also the site of important engagements, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill in nearby Charlestown.
During the 19th century, Norfolk County underwent various changes and developments. The region was primarily agrarian, with farming and manufacturing being the primary industries. However, with the growth of urban areas like Boston, Norfolk County began to experience suburbanization. Improved transportation infrastructure, such as the construction of railroads, facilitated commuting between the county and the city.
Today, Norfolk County continues to thrive as a suburban area with a diverse economy. It is home to a range of industries, including healthcare, education, technology, and finance. The county also boasts numerous parks, recreational areas, and historical sites, attracting both residents and visitors alike.
Brief timeline of the history of Norfolk County, Massachusetts:
- 1679 - Norfolk County is established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1700s - Towns within Norfolk County begin to develop and grow
- 1775-1783 - Norfolk County residents actively participate in the American Revolutionary War
- 1793 - The Norfolk County Court House is built in Dedham
- 1801 - Weymouth becomes the first town to separate from Norfolk County
- 1822 - Quincy separates from Norfolk County
- 1845 - Norfolk County experiences significant population growth due to industrialization
- 1863-1865 - Many Norfolk County residents served in the American Civil War
- 1915 - The Blue Hills Reservation is established, providing recreational opportunities for residents
- 1956 - The Massachusetts Turnpike is extended through Norfolk County, improving transportation
- Present - Norfolk County continues to be a vibrant area with a diverse economy and rich history
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Norfolk County, Massachusetts.