Forty Third Week, Monday's "Medfield Historical Minute"

Medfield MA

10 January, 2021

11:00 PM

Description

A Medfield Historical Minute... This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis. "In 1800 the population of Medfield reached 745 and small industries began to take root. Straw manufacturing commenced in town for the first time in 1801 when Johnson Mason and George Ellis commenced the manufacturing of straw bonnets in what would become known as the Lowell Mason house, on North Street, at the head of Dale Street. This was the beginning of what would become the leading manufacture of the town until well into the 1950's."