Rehoboth Village Historic District

Rehoboth Village is a compact cluster of buildings along Bay State Road and Locust Street at the geographic center of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Settlers came around 1700 for the water power of a fall line in the Palmer River, and gristmills, sawmills and later cotton mills operated there for roughly two hundred years. The village also held the town's first post office, a succession of general stores, and the Goff Memorial Hall, the home of the Rehoboth Antiquarian Society and later its library. Buildings range from a mid-18th-century three-quarter house to Federal and Greek Revival houses, Queen Anne dwellings, and the brick Tudor Revival hall of 1915 designed by William R. Walker and Son of Providence. Winding roads, mature plantings, a mill pond and surrounding fields preserve the setting. The district was recognized for its architectural character and its close ties to the community's economic, social and civic development.