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Freetown Real Estate ownership.
Freetown Assonet Strawberry Festival   Freetown is a pastoral community located in Bristol County, MA with a small summer colony and a maritime history. Freetown's early economy was based mostly on agriculture, but the water power of the Assonet River

eventually brought grist, saw and fulling mills after 1695 and in the 18th century Freetown's industries included a tannery. One of the state's first trout hatcheries was established in Freetown, and in the 1870's railroad dining cars and the luxurious dining rooms of ocean liners were serving Freetown trout.

Freetown's position at the head of a tidewater made it the closest port to the iron-producing towns of Middleborough and Lakeville, encouraging iron foundries and nails works as well as shipyards. The shipyards built sloops and schooners, some of which probably then worked the coastal or foreign trade routes and brought their cargoes back to the busy wharves of Freetown. By the 19th century, iron ore came up the Assonet and into Freetown's wharves primarily from New Jersey. From the wharves the iron went to the factories in Freetown making machine castings for textile machinery, a significant component of Freetown's industrial products at that time. The last ship was launched in Freetown in 1848, when the demand for larger ships outgrew the depth of the Assonet River and the extension of the railroads killed off coastal freighting.

Residents of Freetown turned to small market gardening, dairy production and lumbering and by the end of the century, much of the land that had been farmed was returning to forest as Freetown regained some of its pre-Colonial rural landscape.

Residents are very proud of Freetown's Colonial history, pointing out that the first company of militia was formed in Freetown in 1683 and that three companies of Minute Men turned out on April 19, 1775 for the Battle of Lexington and then served honorably and well with the Continental Army.

Freetown is located in close proximity to Boston and Providence making Freetown attractive to anyone thinking about living or working in this rural community. Freetown is bordered by Berkley and Lakeville on the north; Rochester on the east; Acushnet, New Bedford, and Dartmouth on the south; and Fall River on the southwest. Freetown is about 12 miles northeast of Fall River; 37 miles south of Boston; and 23 miles east of Providence, Rhode Island.

Freetown has mostly single family homes, prices range from $150,000-750,000+ with an average 4 bedroom Freetown home selling in the $180,000-275,000 range depending on the amount of land and the size of the home.

Freetown Real Estate Areas of Interest 

Nearby local harbors include:
New Bedford, Fairhaven, Cuttyhunk Island, Padanaram (South Dartmouth), Mattapoisett, Wareham, Onset, Monument Beach (Phinney's Harbor), Red Brook Harbor, Megansett, Quissett and Hadley Harbor.
Nearby destinations include:
  • Freetown State Forest
  • Long Pond
  • University of Massachusetts (UMASS Dartmouth)
  • Nantucket
  • Martha's Vineyard
  • Westport
  • The Elizabeth Islands
  • Woods Hole
  • The Cape Cod Canal
  • Sandwich
  • Provincetown
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