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The Norton Historical Society is more than just a place that you drive by on Main Street. It opens a door to the past through the fascinating objects in the museum and the many rooms to explore; the vast array of documents to explore and perhaps conduct family research or maybe just learn more about your neighborhood. There are monthly meetings and programs and offers a chance to get to know your neighbors. If you haven't visited, you don't know what you are missing out on! Fall/ Winter Hours are Wednesdays from 9:30am to 2:30pm.
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My name is Chuck Wetherell. I contacted you about a year ago to tell you I was working on the "First Burial Ground" there on Bay Road. My wife and I returned this year to do some more work and to find out what it will cost to make the necessary repairs to the fence and the headstones. The 17 broken fence posts will cost $12,500 and the iron pipe will probably be around $5,000. Then I want to reset and repair the headstones but the cost of that is minimal. I would like to set a shed there to keep my tools so I don't have to move them around. Anyway, I am applying for a grant to help me with some of these costs. My daughter will help me write the grant but I was wondering if you have any experience with this type of situation and if so, do you have any advice for me. We will be in the area until Wednesday the 11th when we will return to Florida. My contact information is;
Chuck Wetherell
1091 Hoover Circle
Nokomis, FL 34275
941-232-8186
HORNBINE SCHOOL MUSEUM OPEN THIS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
The Hornbine School Museum is a one room school house (1846 – 1937) LOCATED at 144 Hornbine Road in Rehoboth. Children are always facinated with our outhouse. Fall is here and this will be our last openhouse for the pubic until next year. Don't forget to use your masks. We will be open between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. this Sunday. FOLLOW us on Facebook at "Hornbine School Museum".
You and your family will have limited access to the building. We ask:
1. Please do not visit if you have symptoms of Covid 19.
2. Wear a mask and maintain a distance of 6 feet.
3. Groups of 4 or less will have restricted access to the Museum.
HORNBINE SCHOOL MUSEUM OPEN SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
The Hornbine School Museum is a one room school house (1846 – 1937) LOCATED at 144 Hornbine Road in Rehoboth. We will be open for the last time this season between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. this Sunday. FOLLOW us on Facebook at "Hornbine School Museum".
You and your family will have limited access to the building. We ask:
1. Please do not visit if you have symptoms of Covid 19.
2. Wear a mask and maintain a distance of 6 feet.
3. Groups of 4 or less will have restricted access to the Museum.
The Hornbine School Museum will be open to the public this Sunday, September 13, 2020 from 2 - 4 P.M. The Museum is located at 144 Hornbine Road in Rehoboth, MA (about a ten minute ride from Rte. 44 going south on Rte. 118.)
We ask:
Please do not visit if you have symptoms of Covid 19.
Wear a mask and maintain a distance of 6 feet.
Groups of 4 or less will have restricted access to the Museum.
FOLLOW us on Facebook at "Hornbine School Museum"
Recent OPEN HOUSE at Hornbine School Museum in Rehoboth, MA
HORNBINE SCHOOL MUSEUM OPEN AUGUST 23rd
The Hornbine School Museum is LOCATED at 144 Hornbine Road in Rehoboth. We are open between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Frances Megan, a past Hornbine School student, will be in attendance when possible. Visitors always find her to be very interesting and informative. Go to our page at “Hornbine School Museum” to FOLLOW us. You and your family will have limited access to the building. We ask:
1. Please do not visit if you have symptoms of Covid 19.
2. Wear a mask and maintain a distance of 6 feet.
3. Groups of 4 or less will have restricted access to the Museum.
Can someone tell me what this note is that was included with an ‘intention to marry‘ in 1777 Norton?
I am an independent researcher interested in places associated with people who were enslaved in Massachusetts during the colonial and early republic days.
Where was "Quock's Orchard" that is referred to in "A History of the Town of Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, from 1669-1859?" According to the book, "Many years ago, there lived about half a mile from, and directly in front of, the present residence of George Lane, an Indian by the name of Quock … An orchard near where his wigwam stood is to this day known as ‘Quock’s Orchard.’ This Indian is supposed to have been slave the latter part of his life, first of Major George Leonard, and then of his son Ephraim."
https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofn00clar/page/56/mode/2up?q=quock%27s+orchard
Any information will be greatly appreciated. Even just a small piece of the puzzle that might help solve this mystery will be greatly appreciated.
HORNBINE SCHOOL MUSEUM IN REHOBOTH
We plan to open the school for Sunday Open House, August 9th from 2 – 4 p.m. We are located at 144 Hornbine Road in Rehoboth, MA. Please wear masks. There will be limited access. Visitors will have a chance to use a slate pencil. It's a unique experience. SHARE this with your friends if you think they may have an interest in history. FOLLOW this if you want more postings.
In the nineteenth century, school children in Rehoboth used slates to practice handwriting and arithmetic without wasting precious paper. The board was made from a piece of quarry slate set in a wooden frame. They were personal-sized blackboards. Often, students wiped away their work, using the cuff of their sleeve, after it was checked by the teacher. This process is the origin of the phrase 'to wipe the slate clean', which we still use to mean to make a new start, or to forget the things that have gone before.
A slate pencil (not chalk) was used to form the letters. Slate pencils were made of soapstone or softer pieces of slate rock, sometimes wrapped in paper. Many Palmer River students remember the sound of the slate pencil, "...like nails on a chalkboard..." when they visited the Hornbine School for a day. Many 19th century children would sharpen their slate pencils on the school wall.
These slate pencils are wrapped in paper decorated like the American flag and stored in a cardboard box with an American flag design. In the United States, slate pencils were manufactured at least as early as 1844 and at least as late as the 1910s. A Vermont company produced up to 100,000 pencils a day, which were shipped throughout the world in the mid19th century. By the end of the Civil War, slate pencil manufacturing began to wane as wood and graphite pencils took over the marketplace.
HORNBINE SCHOOL MUSEUM OPEN FOR AUGUST & SEPTEMBER
The Hornbine School Museum is a one room school house LOCATED (30 min. ride) at 144 Hornbine Road in Rehoboth. (That’s in the south east corner of Rehoboth across from the Historic Hornbine Church.)
We are very happy to announce that the Museum will be open between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month (August & September). Cathy Potter, Brenda Saben, Jan McMurry and Dave Downs unpacked the school materials this Friday (July 24, 2020) in preparation for Sunday Open Houses.
Frances Megan, a past Hornbine School student, will be in attendance when possible. Visitors always find her to be very interesting and informative.
We will follow Rehoboth Health Dept. guidelines. You and your family will have limited access to the building. We ask that visitors wear face masks.
Please SHARE this post with any friends that you feel may have an interest. (If there is no SHARE button on this post, just go to our page and you can share it from there.) FOLLOW our page at “Hornbine School Museum.”
This is an Fernandes Supermarket advertisement in the Attleboro Sun from Wednesday February 16th, 1966
This is an Fernandes Supermarket advertisement in the Monday February 15th, 1965 and anyone remembers the TV game show Supermarket Sweep in which contestants picked up groceries in a short amount of time---This is Fernandes Supermarkets' version of it in which people submitted entries at the Fernandes' stores in Norton, Attleboro and Plainville and then the lucky winner was drawn over WARA Radio in Attleboro and then they would have seven minutes to fill a cart with groceries