Stopping The Car: Freetown

We pulled the car over in Freetown to check out the Freetown Historical Society. This is a replica of the Mason's Corner School, and she's leading off. While the building is a replica of the 1894ish (the bell is from 1894, I don't know when the original school was built) Grade 1-8 school, many items like the desks and blackboard are from the original school.

This is the Wilson Resendes Sawmill, which ran from 1810 to 1939. Green way before it was cool to be green, it ran on water power from the Tisdale Dam on the Assonet River. They mill predominantly made wood boxes.

I presume this was for watering the livestock.

They built a whole gazebo around the old (1915) bell from the Methodist Church. It's bronze, FYI.

The Freetown Historical Society website doesn't say who this house belongs to... but if you have a hide-and-shoot-Englishmen stone wall in front of your house, your house stands a chance of being in Cranberry County Magazine, hustler.

Peak Foliage.

The school looks like a church and the church looks like a school.

Before they had Seinfeld and everything, the funny thing to do was to put a boulder in front of the outhouse door to trap the victim in there. I prefer the brick sh**house style myself, but I'm a purist.

I think that's the dam, and it is the Assonet River. "Assonet" is an Algonquian word meaning either "at the place of the stone" or "song of praise." The stone it is referencing may be Dighton Rock, which is upriver by Assonet Neck. The river runs through Freetown, and joins the Taunton River in nearby Berkley.

Proof that the Algonquians had Guardians Of The Galaxy movies.

The whole pole.

This is either an arrow, or instructions to look up at the anthromorphic raccoon.

Older readers will notice that the bird smokes Bogart style.

You should always put a woman on a pedestal. 

Be careful with that axe, Eugene.

He's no more or less friendly than the other one, but he is unarmed.

Thanks for having us, Freetown!