Sachem Rock Farm

Sachem Rock Farm is a memorable homestead at 355 Plymouth Street in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The ranch area is imperative for an assortment of reasons. Its most punctual chronicled affiliation is with the Wampanoag individuals, who are known to have utilized the zone, especially around Sachem Rock, a stone oucrop that is the property's high indicate, earlier European contact. Sachem Rock itself is verifiably noteworthy as the site of a gathering in 1649 between English pioneers from the Plymouth Colony, including Myles Standish, with the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit. In this gathering the pilgrims obtained rights to a vast tract of land, including East and West Bridgewater, Bridgewater, and Brockton. The land around Sachem Rock was settled by 1665, with a homestead and gristmill adjacent on the Satucket River, and has seen farming uses from that point onward. The most seasoned structures to survive are a complex of stables and different storehouses assembled c. 1870 by Thomas Hewitt. The Hewitt farmhouse, worked in 1869, torched in 1926, and was supplanted by the present two-story Colonial Revival wood outline house by Henry Moorhouse. The property was obtained by the Town of East Bridgewater in 1998.