Morseville

Known as Morseville, this section of Foxborough was populated by members of the Morse family since the early 1700's. By 1737, Jedediah Morse had dammed the Neponset River to form Crack Rock Pond and built both a saw mill and a bloomery forge near this spot. In the mid-1800's, Leonard Morse operated a hoe factory here, and B F. Boyden and Sons later had a grist mill at the same water privilege. Community life centered on the Plimpton School for elementary students, and the arrival of the railroad in 1886, with a depot and post office, formally established the area as North Foxboro. Passenger rail service later declined with the advent of the electric trolley line, which ran from 1899 to 1919, and the post office closed in 1906.

Foxborough, Massachusetts · United States