FINAL WEEK, Friday's "Medfield Historical Minute"

For the final week of the year-long Medfield Historical Minutes, each of the days will represent an important event in Medfield history that had a major and “game changing” impact on the town.

A Medfield Historical Minute...

This is the final week of "Medfield Historical Minutes" brought to you by town historian, Richard DeSorgher.

Although the Coronavirus is still part of our daily lives, there is hope on the horizon that we will not be isolated too much longer as vaccinations are now taking place. Medfield Historical
Minutes were Richard's way of "giving you a little break during this time of boredom during
isolation" by sharing his knowledge of Medfield history. A huge thank you to Richard for his time and dedication to sharing the history of Medfield with our community for one full year.

"Following WWII, the population of Medfield took a dramatic upward turn. In 1948 the first housing development in town history started in the area of Summer and Pine Streets and then extending over to the Lowell Mason Road area. Those ranch and Cape Cod style houses brought in “new city people”, including many WWII veterans with young and growing families. Those growing families would soon fill the school system to the brink, causing new schools to be built and everyone’s taxes to increase. In some of the small Cape and ranch houses were families of seven, eight, nine, ten kids. These new residents would go on to become the backbone of the community."