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| Freetown, Massachusetts |
| Population |
8,522 |
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| Tax Rate |
8.93 (2008) |
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| Town Web Site |
Town Web Site |
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| School Research |
Department of Education
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Independent Research
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Freetown, Massachusetts is located
Southeastern Massachusetts, bordered by Berkley and Lakeville on the north;
Rochester on the east; Acushnet, New Bedford, and Dartmouth on the south; and
Fall River on the southwest. Freetown is about 12 miles northeast of Fall River;
37 miles south of Boston; and 23 miles east of Providence, Rhode Island. Principal highways are State Route 24 (the Fall River Expressway), State
Route 79, which connects Freetown to Middleborough, and State Route 140,
which runs N-S to New Bedford. Conrail services a freight rail line through Freetown. Contact number:
(617) 783-6222
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| The Town of Freetown is a pastoral community in Bristol County with a small
summer colony and a maritime history. The town's early economy was based
mostly on agriculture, but the water power of the Assonet River eventually
brought grist, saw and fulling mills after 1695 and in the 18th century the
town''s industries included a tannery. One of the state''s first trout
hatcheries was established in Freetown, and in the 1870's railroad dining
cars and the luxurious dining rooms of ocean liners were serving Freetown
trout.
Freetown''s position at the head of a tidewater made it the closest port to
the iron-producing towns of Middleborough and Lakeville, encouraging iron
foundries and nails works as well as shipyards. The shipyards built sloops
and schooners, some of which probably then worked the coastal or foreign
trade routes and brought their cargoes back to the busy wharves of
Freetown. By the 19th century, iron ore came up the Assonet and into
Freetown''s wharves primarily from New Jersey. From the wharves the iron
went to the factories in town making machine castings for textile
machinery, a significant component of Freetown''s industrial product at that
time. The last ship was launched in Freetown in 1848, when the demand for
larger ships outgrew the depth of the Assonet River and the extension of
the railroads killed off coastal freighting.
Residents of the town turned to small market gardening, dairy production
and lumbering and by the end of the century, much of the land that had been
farmed was returning to forest as Freetown regained some of its
pre-Colonial rural landscape. Residents are very proud of the town''s
Colonial history, pointing out that the first company of militia was formed
in Freetown in 1683 and that three companies of Minute Men turned out on
April 19, 1775 for the Battle of Lexington and then served honorably and
well with the Continental Army. |
Map of Freetown
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Some information gathered on Freetown, MA is courtesy of Commonwealth Communities at Mass.gov
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