Rehoboth, Massachusetts Rehoboth, Massachusetts Official seal of Rehoboth, Massachusetts Rehoboth is a historic town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.
Established in 1643, Rehoboth is one of the earliest suburbs in Massachusetts.
The populace was 11,608 at the 2010 census. Rehoboth is a mostly rural, suburban improve with many historic sites including 53 historic cemeteries.
First Congregational Church, Rehoboth Rehoboth was established in 1643, originally by Walter Palmer (born 1585) and William Sabin, it was incorporated in 1645, one of the earliest Massachusetts suburbs to incorporate. The town is titled for the Hebrew word for "enlargement," (Broad Places) signifying the space pioneer appreciateed.(God has given us room) Early Rehoboth, known as "Old Rehoboth," encompassed all of what is now Seekonk, Massachusetts, and East Providence, Rhode Island, as well as parts of the close-by communities of Attleboro, North Attleborough, Swansea and Somerset in Massachusetts, and Barrington, Bristol, Warren, Pawtucket, Cumberland, and Woonsocket in Rhode Island.
One of the beginning fathers of Rehoboth was Samuel Newman, a clergyman from Weymouth, Massachusetts who moved to the Seconet region near to Little Compton in the Plymouth Colony.
Newman Congregational Church (founded 1643, current building dates to 1810) still stands at the intersections of Pawtucket Ave, Newman Ave and Ferris Ave. The region was known as Rehoboth village.
He spent the next several years revising the concordance with a second version presented in 1650 that includes on the title page, "By Samuel Newman, now teacher of the Church at Rehoboth in New England." Samuel Peck, son of Joseph Peck, one of the initial settlers of Rehoboth.
The Rehoboth Carpenter family was one of the beginning families.
Among the earliest purchasers of the territory that is now Rehoboth and close-by communities was the Peck family, who came from close-by Hingham, Massachusetts, initially.
Peck's son was fined fifty shillings for making continuous sexual advances toward the maid. Peck died in Rehoboth in 1697.
These tracts of territory Peck willed to his son Samuel, who served as Deputy to the General Court at Plymouth, as well as the first representative from the town of Rehoboth after the Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts were united.
Today's Pecks Corner in Rehoboth is titled for this early Puritan family. Rehoboth was a momentous site amid King Philip's War.
Rehoboth claims to be the place of birth of enhance education in North America.
Upon incorporation, members of the Rehoboth improve and Newman Church (now in present-day East Providence, RI) propel to collect funds to pay a teacher for the settlement's children.
Another town landmark is related to education: The historic Hornbine School, assembled in 1845, is positioned in the southeast corner of town and is open to the enhance for visiting and educational purposes from May to September.
With encouragement from musket-bearing members of the 13th Continental Regiment, Rehoboth Minutemen, other suburbs and metros/cities ceremonially 'returned' their territory for the duration of the anniversary year celebration.
Rehoboth is a Right to Farm improve Today Rehoboth is a mostly rural, suburban improve with many historic sites including 53 historic cemeteries.
Rehoboth family farm operations presently sell: vegetables, fruit, and food products, hay, Christmas trees, plants and flowers, dairy goods, eggs, meat (beef, turkey, chicken, pork), farm livestock, zoo and domestic animals.
Sylvester Round House (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) (1782) site of R.Round Tavern (1810) & Grenville Stephens' store & first postal service in Rehoboth, MA According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 46.8 square miles (121 km2), of which 46.5 square miles (120 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), or 0.60%, is water.
Rehoboth's localities are Four Corners, Hornbine, Kingmans Corner, North Rehoboth, Pecks Corner, Perrys Corner, Perryville, Rehoboth Village, South Rehoboth and Anawan Rock.
Rehoboth State Forest off Peck Street has hiking trails.
The Rehoboth Antiquarian Society (RAS) operates both the Carpenter Museum positioned on Locust Street, and the Blanding Public Library homed in Goff Memorial Hall positioned on Bay State Road.
In 2013, the exhibition was awarded the Gold Star Award by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their 2012 multi-event cultural program, "Remembering Rehoboth School Days." Many cultural affairs held in Rehoboth are supported in part by grants from the Rehoboth Cultural Council, an partner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Members of the council, although appointed by town selectmen, operate autonomously from town government and award grants on a annual basis with funds allotted by the state organization.
Several non-profit organizations based in Rehoboth furnish resources or cultural affairs.
The Rehoboth Country Dance Society, established in 1981, holds enhance contra dances with acclaimed musicians and callers at least twice monthly at Goff Memorial Hall.
For those interested in history, the 13th Continental Regiment Rehoboth Minute Company, originally chartered in 1774, was recommissioned in 1992 as part of the town's 350 anniversary celebration.
The town's historic one-room school home, the Hornbine School, is open spring and summer for visits and tours.
The school, directed from 1848 to 1937, was restored in 1969 and now belongs to the town under the jurisdiction of the historical commission, and tended carefully by the non-profit Horbine School Association.
The town is part of the Fourth Bristol state representative district, including Seekonk and parts of Swansea and Norton.
In the state senate, the town is part of the Bristol and Norfolk district, which includes part of the town/city of Attleboro and all or part of the suburbs of Dover, Foxborough, Mansfield, Medfield, Norton, Seekonk, Sharon and Walpole.
Rehoboth is patrolled by Troop D (Southeast District), 4th Barracks (located in Middleborough) of the Massachusetts State Police.
Rehoboth municipal government operates from town offices positioned in a one-story building on Peck Street, previously a Project Nike site.
Residents may vote on town governing issues at town meetings which are held in the spring and fall.
The town administrator is Jeff Ritter who manages the operation of the town offices and personnel.
The Rehoboth Rescue Squad has served the improve for the past 46 years and is the town's only 100% unpaid volunteer enhance safety organization.
Rehoboth Ambulance is an autonomous, non-profit organization that provides vehicles, equipment, supplies and staffing stipends without direct funding from the town.
In cases of emergency or disaster, the Rehoboth Emergency Management Agency (REMA) coordinates accomplishments of all the enhance safety entities.
An additional town-owned building, positioned on Anawan Street, homes Rehoboth Community TV, the small-town enhance access cable tv service.
Operation of enhance programming on three channels (Government Channel 9, Education Channel 15 and Public Channel 98) is the responsibility of the town's Cable Advisory Committee and town employees.
Military veterans in Rehoboth are supported by the town's Veterans Services Department positioned at the town office.
Rehoboth's educational fitness can be traced back to the earliest days of the town (see "History" for more details).
The Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District was formed in 1958 and period to include all schools in both Rehoboth and neighboring Dighton.
Rehoboth schools include Palmer River Elementary School on Winthrop Street (Route 44) and D.
The Rehoboth Parent-Teacher-Student Association (PTSA) serves both students of both schools.
The Dighton-Rehoboth Marching Band is a large organization of students that performs for athletic games, parades and special affairs such as the annual Dighton Christmas Tree Lighting and Rehoboth's Harvest Block Party.
The school precinct has a cooperative agreement with Bristol Plymouth Regional Technical School for those high school students wishing to attend a vocational-technical school.
Rehoboth students may also elect to attend Bristol County Agricultural High School in Dighton.
Rehoboth has two private elementary schools: Cedar Brook School, a Seventh-day Adventist school serving students from grades Pre K-11; and the Pinecroft School serving students from K-5.
Route 44 and Massachusetts Route 118, intersect near the center of town.
Rehoboth is a part of the Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority (GATRA), which provides bus service to suburbs in central Bristol and Plymouth counties.
Descended from Richard Goff, one of the first pioneer in Rehoboth.
Rehoboth individuals and families who find themselves in need are assisted by Rehoboth Helping Hands, a non-profit organization that provides year-round assistance (508-252-3263).
Under the direction of retired Rehoboth police officer Steve Martin, Helping Hands operates the town's food panty, fuel assistance program, and holiday giving programs.
The food pantry is supplemented by the Rehoboth Community Garden amid the summer and fall.
Rehoboth Business Association Rehoboth Community Garden Rehoboth Congregational Church Rehoboth Station Three Firefighters Association Rehoboth State Two Firefighters Association Rehoboth was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the town with the most golf courses in the United States.
Rehoboth had the first tornado in the United States recorded by European colonists in August 1671.
Rehoboth contains the transmission towers for the majority of the tv stations in the Providence market, with five of the market's seven full-power TV stations transmitting from the north-central part of town.
According to Ripley's Believe It or Not, Rehoboth boasts the longest gravestone epitaph in the United States.
Rehoboth borders the south angle of the so-called "Bridgewater Triangle" an almost 200-square mile section of southeastern Massachusetts said to be a core of paranormal activity.
Thatcher, a 13-year-old Rehoboth girl, documented her days at the Perry School in her 1875/76 diary which was later identified and presented in 2007 by Catherine Potter.
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