{"nrhp_refnum":"06001129","name":"Sachem Rock Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"355 Plymouth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Bridgewater","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":42.01901950000004,"lon":-70.95044403255899,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 31.63-acre historic farm district at 355 Plymouth Street in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, beside the Satucket River. It includes a 1927 Colonial Revival farmhouse, a ca. 1870s barn complex, meadows and the Sachem Rock ledge outcropping.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the property as a long-lived farmstead whose land descends from the Latham family farms of the 18th century. Its buildings and landscape show agricultural use through the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the large Sachem Rock ledge is a notable landmark. The form notes that the 1927 house replaced an 1869 farmhouse that burned in 1926.","narrative":"Sachem Rock Farm is a 31.63-acre farm at 355 Plymouth Street in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, bordered on the west by a bend of the Satucket River. A long drive lined with old sugar maples leads to the farmstead, where a two-story Colonial Revival house built in 1927 stands on the fieldstone foundation of an 1869 farmhouse that burned the year before. Behind it is a barn complex begun in the 1870s for Thomas Hewitt, with a timber frame, a stanchion area with a manure trench, and later additions. Just west of the house rises Sachem Rock, a ledge about 25 feet high and over 70 feet long. Meadows, a stone-lined drainage ditch and early concrete garden features complete the landscape. The land traces back to the Latham family farms of the 1700s, later passing through owners such as Ezra Kingman. The farm is recognized for its continuous agricultural history and its intact farmstead and landscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings are listed as vacant in the current functions; the land is open meadow mown for hay, and the garden club maintains plantings near the house.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.008886-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/7964/63796467/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/06001129.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001129/9d39c350ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001129/9d39c350ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sachem_Rock_Farm,_East_Bridgewater_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sachem_Rock_Farm,_East_Bridgewater_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796467","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachem_Rock_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7396691"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/sachem-rock-farm-06001129/"}