Assonet Historic District
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Assonet Historic District is a historic district and village roughly bounded by MA 24, a private Lane, Conrail Railroad Tracks, and High Street in Assonet, Massachusetts
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The district was added to the National Historic Register in 1999.
Assonet, Massachusetts
Assonet is one of two villages in the town of Freetown, Massachusetts in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. An original part of the town, Assonet was settled in 1659 along with the city of Fall River, then a part of Freetown. It rests on the banks of the Assonet River...
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The district was added to the National Historic Register in 1999.
Properties
- Assonet Burying GroundAssonet Burying GroundThe Assonet Burying Ground is the main public cemetery for Freetown, Massachusetts.Prior to becoming a cemetery, the land occupied by the Assonet Burying Ground was used as a military musterfield for the southeastern Massachusetts area...
(c.1800) - Col. Thomas Gilbert House (c.1700)
- Freetown Town Hall (1888)
- Guilford H. Hathaway Library (1895)
- North Church (1809) (now the United ChurchUnited Church of ChristThe United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination primarily in the Reformed tradition but also historically influenced by Lutheranism. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC...
of Assonet) - South Church (c.1835) (now St. BernardBernard of ClairvauxBernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val...
's Church) - Village School (1794)