Recollecting Nemasket: Pratt Farm Clean Up Day

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Pratt Farm Clean Up Day

On Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m., a Pratt Farm clean up day is being sponsored by the Pratt Farm Committee, Middleborough on the Move and The Future of Middleborough Trust. The Pratt Farm Conservation Area is an important ecological and historical community resource and volunteers are needed to contribute any available time during the scheduled hours to help with some basic clean up. Participants are encouraged to bring their families.
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Join Spring Clean SUPER TEAM!
Meet people, help the community and the kids, and feel great !
Adult Volunteers and children volunteers are needed.
Earn a sense of community in volunteering your time towards a spring clean up at Pratt Farm on May 17, 2009.
Come any time between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm — whatever times you can give.
Pratt farm needs some cleaning and sprucing up. Please come and spend quality time with your family enjoying one of our natural resources and improving our community.
Bring a picnic lunch, rakes, plastic bags, outdoor games,and other items to make an enjoyable time at the Middleborough Pratt Farm on East Main Street.
Pratt Farm Committee, Middleborough on the Move and The Future of Middleborough Trust, are working together to help the community at large , with a start of a green farm clean up.
Please join us for some goodwill excitement.

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Judy Bigelow-Costa
President
Middleborough on the Move

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Illustrations:

Pratt House, Pratt Farm, computer-colored photograph, c. 1920

"Blossom", photographed by Michael J. Maddigan at the Pratt Farm, May 29, 2007

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: do you know what happened to the garbage cans at Pratt Farm?? There aren't any and people so graciously leave their garbage daily...any way to get the cans back and picked up regularly?; October 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Mike said...: The Pratt Farm is overseen by the Middleborough Conservation Commission. The best bet is to contact the town's Conservation Agent Tricia Cassady or the Conservation Commission itself to see what might be done.; October 13, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks! Will do!; October 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM

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TOWN HISTORIES

MIDDLEBOROUGH

Celebration of the Two-Hundreth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Middleborough, Massachuestts, October 13, 1869. Middleborough, MA: Town of Middleborough, 1870.

Ebenezer W. Peirce. Historic Sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater. Boston, MA: E. W. Peirce, 1873.

Ebenezer W. Peirce, "History of Middleboro'" in D. Hamilton Hurd. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1884.

Thomas Weston. History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906.

Albert H. Washburn. Historical Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts. Np: np, 1919.

Mertie E. Romaine. History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts. Volume II. Middleborough, MA: Town of Middleborough, 1969.

Marilyn Thayer. Middleborough Through the Ages. Middleborough, MA: Rock Village Publishing, 2012.

LAKEVILLE

Ebenezer W. Peirce. Historic Sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater. Boston, MA: E. W. Peirce, 1873.

Ebenezer W. Peirce, "History of Lakeville" in D. Hamilton Hurd. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1884.

Gladys Vigers. History of the Town of Lakeville, Massachusetts. Lakeville, MA: Town of Lakeville, 1952.

Phyllis Elliott Draghetti and D. Evelyn Sylvia Norris. History of the Town of Lakeville: The Next Twenty-Five years 1953-1978. Lakeville, MA: Town of Lakeville, 1978.

PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORIES

MIDDLEBOROUGH

Walter O. Thompson, Jr. Thompson Collection. Volume 1. Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library.

Walter O. Thompson, Jr. Thompson Collection. Volume 2. Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library, 2004.

Michael J. Maddigan. Images of America: Middleborough. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.

LAKEVILLE

Preserve Our Lakeville Landmarks. Lakeville Then and Now. Lakeville, MA: Preserve Our Lakeville Landmarks, 1993.

Gail E. Terry. Images of America: Berkley, Freetown, and Lakeville. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.

VILLAGE & NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORIES

MIDDLEBOROUGH

North Middleborough

Helen Caswell, et al. North Middleborough Looks Back. Middleborough, MA: np, 1976.

Muttock

Michael J. Maddigan. Muttock: Middleborough's Revolutionary Village. Middleborough, MA: Recollecting Nemasket, 2015.

South Middleborough

Michael J. Maddigan. South Middleborough: A History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011.

Eddyville

Eddyville, Middleboro, Massachusetts: 1661-1987. Middleborough, MA: The Eddy Homestead Association, 1988.

LAKEVILLE

Lakeville "Center" and Assawompsett Neck

The Lakeville Historical Tour Committee Presents Dartmouth Path - The Old Stage Road. Lakeville, MA: Preserve Our Lakeville Landmarks, 2001.

The Lakeville Historical Tour Committee Presents Old Main Street and Crooked Lane & A Self-Guided Tour of Main Street. Lakeville, MA: Preserve Our Lakeville Landmarks, 2003.

Michael J. Maddigan. Lakeville's King Philip Tavern: An Illustrated History. Lakeville, MA: Preserve Our Lakeville Landmarks, 2010.

Beechwoods

The Lakeville Historical Tour Committee Presents Historic Pierce Avenue. Lakeville, MA: Preserve Our Lakeville Landmarks, 2001.

Kenneth C. Leonard, Jr. The Beechwoods Confederacy 1709-1809: The Colonial History of Beechwoods Middleboro-Taunton Precinct, Massachusetts. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2003.

NATIVE HISTORIES

Ebenezer W. Peirce. Indian History, Biography and Genealogy: Pertaining to the Good Sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag Tribe, and His Descendants. North Abington, MA: Zerviah Gould Mitchell, 1878.

Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt. Indian Names of Places in Plymouth, Middleborough, Lakeville and Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with Interpretations of Some of Them. Worcester, MA: Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt, 1909.

Alvin G. Weeks. Massasoit of the Wampanoags. Fall River, MA: Alvin G. Weeks, 1919.

King Philip's War (1675-76)

Benjamin Church et al. The History of King Philip's War. 1st ed. Boston: Howe & Norton, 1825. 1827 ed. 1829 ed. 1840 ed.

Thomas Church. History of Philip's War. Boston: J. H. A. Frost, 1827.

Daniel Strock, Jr. Pictorial History of King Philip's War. Boston: Horace Wentworth, 1851.

John S. C. Abbott. History of King Phillip, Sovereign Chief of the Wampanoags. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857.

Franklin B. Hough. A Narrative of the Causes which Led to Philip's Indian War of 1675 and 1676. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1858.

Increase Mather et al. The History of King Philip's War. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1862.

William Hubbard. The History of the Indian Wars in New England from the First Settlement to the Termination of the War with King Philip, in 1677. Roxbury, MA: Samuel G. Drake, 1865. Volume 1. Volume 2.

Richard Markham. A Narrative of King Philip's War and the Indian Troubles in New England. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1883.

George Madison Bodge. Soldiers of King Philip's War Being a Critical Account of that War. 1st ed. Leominster, MA: George Madison Bodge, 1896. 3rd ed., 1906.

George W. Ellis and John E. Morris. King Philip's War. New York: The Grafton Press, 1906.

Douglas Edward Leach. Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War. Np: np, 1958.

Russell Bourne. Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Jill Lepore. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1998.

Yasuhide Kawashima. Igniting King Philip's War: The John Sassamon Murder Trial. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001.

NATURAL, AGRICULTURAL & INDUUSTRIAL HISTORIES

NATURAL

Michael J. Maddigan. Nemasket River Herring: A History. Charleston, SC: Natural History Press, 2014.

AGRICULTURAL

Joseph D. Thomas, ed. Cranberry Harvest: A History of Cranberry Growing in Massachusetts. New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications, Inc., 1990.

Edward and Yolanda Lodi, Cranberry Memories: Voices from the Bogs. Middleborough, MA: Rock Village Publishing, 2009.

Stephen Cole and Lindy Gifford. The Cranberry: Hard Work and Holiday Sauce. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House Publishers, 2009.

Lydia Rotch. The Lakeville Historical Tour Committee Presents the History of Hill Top Farm in the Words of Lydia Rotch. Lakeville, MA: Preserve Our Lakeville Landmarks, 2009.

INDUSTRIAL

Michael J. Maddigan. Star Mill: History & Architecture. Middleborough, MA: Recollecting Nemasket, 2012.

Howard T. Smith. Maxim Fire Apparatus Photo History. Hudson, WI: Iconografix, 2004.

Howard T. Smith. Maxim Fire Apparatus 1914-1989 Photo Archive. Hudson, WI: Iconografix, 2001.

CHURCH HISTORIES

MIDDLEBOROUGH

Church at the Green

Israel W. Putnam. Two Discourses on the Divine Faithfulness, as Illustrated in the History of the First Church in Middleborough, Mass., During the Period of One Hundred and Fifty Years. Boston: Charles C. P. Moody, 1852.

Book of the First Church of Christ, in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Mass. Middleborough, MA: First Congregational Society of Middleborough, 1852.

First Church in Middleborough, Mass: Mr. Putnam's Century and Half Discourses; an Historical Account; and a Catalogue of Members. Boston, MA: First Congregational Society of Middleborough, 1854.

Two Hundreth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Middleboro, Mass. Middleborough, MA: First Congregational Society of Middleborough, 1895.

North Middleborough Congregational Church

S. Hopkins Emery. The History of the Church of North Middleborough, Massachusetts. Middleborough, MA: North Middleborough Congregational Society. 1876.

Central Congregational Church

Mertie E. Witbeck. History of the Central Congregational Church, Middleborough, Massachusetts 1847-1947. Middleborough, MA: Central Congregational Society, 1947.

CEMETERY HISTORIES & INSCRIPTIONS

Peter Benes. The Masks of Orthodoxy: Folk Gravestone Carving in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1689-1805. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.

Charles M. Thatcher. Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts: A Compilation of Records by Charles M. Thatcher in the late 1880s. Middleborough, MA: The Middleborough Public Library, 1995.

MIDDLEBOROUGH

Nemasket Hill Cemetery

John W. Willard. "Records from the Nemasket Cemetery, Middleborough, Mass." The Mayflower Descendant. XV:1. January, 1913, pp. 1-9.

St. Mary's Cemetery

On-line database

Rock Cemetery

Michael J. Maddigan. Elysian Fields: An Illustrated History of Rock Cemetery. Middleborough, MA: Rock Cemetery Association, 2007.

LAKEVILLE

Jean A. Douillette. Lakeville, Massachusetts Gravestone Inscriptions 1711-2003. Lakeville, MA: Urn and Willow Publishing, 2007.