Harding

Harding is a hamlet in Town of Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Harding is situated nearby to the hamlet Medfield Junction station, as well as near Farm Street Station.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bridge Island Meadows and Dwight–Derby House.

Bridge Island Meadows

Nature reserve

Bridge Island Meadows is an 80-acre nature reserve owned by The Trustees of Reservations on the floodplains of the upper Charles River in Millis, Massachusetts.

The Dwight–Derby House is at 7 Frairy Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. The Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory took samples of the house frame in 2007 and determined that the earliest, southwest portion of the house was built in 1697, and an addition was built to the east in 1713.

Peak House

Museum

Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Peak House Heritage Center is a historic site located in Medfield, Massachusetts. According to tradition, the original house was built in 1651 by Benjamin Clark, was burned during the King Philip's War on February 21, 1676, and was rebuilt ca. Peak House is situated 1½ miles southeast of Harding.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Medfield and Millis.

Medfield

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Medfield is a town of 13,000 people in Massachusetts. Medfield was first settled by Anglo-Americans in 1649 after the land was taken from the Neponset Native Americans.

Millis

Town

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Franklin is a city of 37,000 in Massachusetts. Bellingham is a town with a population of 17,000. Birthplace of noted author William Taylor Adams, also known as Oliver Optic. Millis is situated 3 miles southwest of Harding.

Sherborn

Town

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Sherborn is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Located in Boston's MetroWest region, the community is within area code 508 and has the ZIP Code 01770. Sherborn is situated 3½ miles northwest of Harding.

Harding

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Town of Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.20371° or 42° 12′ 13″ north

Longitude

-71.32395° or 71° 19′ 26″ west

Elevation

167 feet (51 metres)

Open location code

87JC6M3G+FC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158810349

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4938854

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