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Forty Seventh Week, Wednesday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"On March 2, 1896 the Medfield Town Seal was officially adopted. The Seal was designed by artist John A. S. Monks. It was divided into four quarters. The first quarter of the shield contained the Compact of 1649. The second quarter contained 13 Puritan heads symbolizing the 13 original settlers of the town. The third quarter contained a garrison house, with Noon Hill in the distance, the hill so named by the early settlers for the reason that the sun appeared to them to stand directly above its summit at noon. The fourth quarter contained the tomahawk and torch which represented the attack on the town during the King Philip War. The rhododendron is placed on each side of the seal representing the wild stand of rhododendrons that grow in Medfield, the stand behind the current St. Edward Church was at the time the largest stand of rhododendrons in the state. Two dates appear, 1649, as the founding of the town and 1651 as the date of incorporation as the 43 town in the then Massachusetts Bay Colony."