Freetown Common

Freetown Common is a park in Bristol, Massachusetts. Freetown Common is situated nearby to the fire station Freetown Fire Department - Station 1, as well as near the hamlet Assonet.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Freetown Town Hall and Assonet Burying Ground.

Freetown Town Hall

Town hall

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Freetown Town Hall is situated 410 feet northwest of Freetown Common.

Assonet Burying Ground

Cemetery

The Assonet Burying Ground is the main public cemetery for Freetown, Massachusetts. Prior to becoming a cemetery, the land occupied by the Assonet Burying Ground was used as a military musterfield for the southeastern Massachusetts area. Assonet Burying Ground is situated 2,500 feet southwest of Freetown Common.

Profile Rock was a 50-foot-high granite rock formation located in Freetown, Massachusetts, just outside Assonet village and near the Freetown State Forest. In 2019, a large section of the formation broke off.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Freetown and Assonet.

Freetown

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Freetown is a rural town on the Assonet River in the SouthCoast region of Massachusetts. It includes the villages of East Freetown and Assonet.

Assonet

Hamlet

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Assonet is one of two villages in the town of Freetown in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. An original part of the town, Assonet was settled in 1659 along with the city of Fall River, then a part of Freetown.

Dighton

Village

Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Taunton is a city in Massachusetts with a population of 59,000. It is nicknamed the "Silver City" for its tradition as a center of silversmithing, and the "Christmas City" for its festive Christmas displays on Taunton Green. Dighton is situated 3 miles northwest of Freetown Common.

Freetown Common

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.79466° or 41° 47′ 41″ north

Longitude

-71.06708° or 71° 4′ 2″ west

Open location code

87HCQWVM+V5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29834651

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Freetown Fire Department - Station 1 and Guilford H. Hathaway Library.

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