Brant Rock Timeline 1640 - 2001

Brant Rock Timeline

1640

Therefore the Towns people voted to use the date March 2, 1640 and by that vote and the instant law of a Township Marshfield did vote on a Township-Incorporated.

Township- Villages / Districts Names were; Brant Rock, Center Marshfield, Ferry Hill, Green Harbour (Duxbury Beach), Fieldston, Marshfield Hills (East Marshfield), North Marshfield, Ocean Bluff, Wrexham, Seaview, and Standish (Route 139 area). Ply. Co.

1867-1939

Railroad serves town of Marshfield - Stations at Green Harbor, Marshfield Center and Duxbury. 1871 Railroad Duxbury & Cohasset extended service to; Littltown (Sea View)- 53-Station St. So. Marshfield Center- town parking lot. Webster’s Place- North side of Careswell St. Near the Duxbury line.

1872

Dyke Road Built - improved in 1879)...connecting Green Harbor to Brant Rock.

1872

Dyke Road Built - improved in 1879)...connecting Green Harbor to Brant Rock.

6-4-1878

Post Office (Brant Rock) established.

1879

Hotel- Atlantic house

1880

Sea Wall- in pictures show as wooden sea walls at Brant Rock and Ocean Bluff.

5-24-1886

Post Office (Green Harbor) established.

1892

Bridge, there was no bridge before this date, joining Humarock.

1893

US Life Station built on Ocean St.

1894

Brant Rock Fish Market, Charlie Phillips 1894 – 1960, Hank Dunbar 1960 - present

1895

Union Chapel- Brant Rock was built

1899

Sea Walls " Jetties " were built in Green Harbor

1900 Ways
Abington Village was Built by Bradley Brant
(Shawmut Ave to St. Ann’s Church).

1900
Green Harbor Village - (86) Houses, (3) Hotels, Webster Hotel (Carsewell St.), Hotel Johnston (north side of Beach St near Careswell St.), Riverside Inn (old Sears building end of Landing Rd.) Also Green Harbor Beach - (73) houses (1) Hotel, Winslow House near (Beach St. & Careswell St) Burned 1940

1900
Wooden Water Tank (50,000 gals.) Hancock St, part of the Bradley Brant mineral spring and pumping station.

1900

Street Lights were installed in Brant Rock.

1900-1971

Estes Candy Kitchen (Ocean St.) opened., burned down on?

1900-1907

S. G. Capen Store - Ocean St at Ocean Bluff.

1903
Hotel - Peace Haven Hotel & Annex 1903 – 1940, Building taken down to build houses in that area.

1903

South River Street Cranberry Bogs where built.

1905 - 1915
Professor Reginald Fessenden makes the World First Radio Voice Broadcast (1906) at Brant Rock-Part of Marshfield,Ma.

1907

Ways Webster Park (Number Roads area) builders Bradley Brant (Marshfield), John Foster (Hanson), Hoarse Maglathlin (Kingston) and in 1918 H.S. Kelsey. Webster Park House Lots, Water front $ 250.00, Row back from the ocean 175.00, $150.00, $100.00 Rest of the lots were #1.00, Houses cost $ 1,600.00. In 1929 H.S. Kelsey set aside 10 water front lots for the use of the neighborhood between 3rd and 5 th. Rd.

1913

Post Office - (Ocean Bluff) established 7-14

1915 -

US Coast Guard took over the US Life Saving Station, on Ocean St. (built in 1893), Station closed in 1947, and was taken down by the Town in 1967.

1919 -

Fire/ Water Districts, Article 38 Sewer Wagon for the restricted areas of zoning - for Green Harbor, Brant Rock, Ocean Bluff. The rest of the Town was Zoned Un-Restricted areas.

1920

Green Harbor Park - 10,000 square foot lots selling for $ 25.00 per lot.

1922 5-28

Marshfield County Club started in 1919 on the Thomas Farm in Ocean Bluff. The land was purchased in 1921,1929, and more land was purchased in 1930. The 2nd. nine holes were completed in 1976. The Club House burned down, and a new club house was built in 1978.
Brant Rock (wooden 50,000 gal. tank) Bradley Bryant - Brant Rock Water Co., fed from a Mineral spring on Dyke Road serviced 1,000 homes. Water Tank- Tower Avenue

1923 - 1941

Church- Saint Ann’s, Ocean Bluff Burned down fire of 1941. Mass was held in the Fieldston Ball room in the summer months, and was held in the Fire station in the winter months. In 1946 - there was a temporary Church moved there from Framingham it was an old Army Chapel, and in 1957 a New church was built.

1925-1941

Fieldston on the Atlantic ballroom was opened

1927 -

Ocean St widening of Ocean St, acts of 1927, Chapter 249, buildings on the Green Harbor side of Ocean St had to be moved back into the marshlands.

1927 4-8

Towns first public Water System, Article 29., Companies as follows; 1.) Brant Rock Water Co, (Bradley Bryant serviced the Brant Rock area.
2. George H. Thomas water system (serviced the Brant Rock area)
3.) Fieldston Water Co. (Joseph Spang serviced the Fieldston area. )
4.) Cedar Hill System (Howard Baker serviced the Green Harbor area)
5.) Humarock Beach Water Co. (also known as Crosby Water Co serviced the Seaview and Humarock beach areas for the Town of Scituate) All the above companies were used until 1946.

1927 -

Ocean Breeze Bar & Grill (Arthur Tradd) esplanade, Venus two, 1975 Nick Drosopoulos

1928

Sandy’s Restaurant- Dyke Rd.

1928

3-23Bounds between Marshfield and Scituate established.

1928

Haddad’s Ocean Street Cafe started on the splanade.

1929

Sunrise Beach Association was established for forty years until 1967.

1929 -

Population of Brant Rock, Ocean Bluff and Green Harbor were 329 houses, 4 hotels, and there were 61 fishermen / lobstermen year round.

1929

Comfort Station was built in Brant Rock.

1930 -

Fife’s Grocery & Meat Market (Ocean St.) next to the Ocean Cafe. - also known as Whitman Market.1930 First National Store - middle of the esplanade

1930-1950

Eli’s Linen Store, Brant Rock, burned down in 1960

1930 -

1958 Police Station was the old Brant Rock School House on Dyke Rd

1931

Sea Walls "Jetties " were re-built in Green Harbor (first built in 1899)

1932
Sea Walls built (Brant Rock to Fieldston) $200,000.00 1/6th. Paid by abutters (15.00) per foot of and 1/6th. Paid by town 1/6th. Paid by county And balance paid by the state Built by the (WPA) workers progress administration Hourly wages were .35 cents per hour. Waterfront owners built their own stairs to the beach with all other homes paying $10.00 each toward the expense.

1938 - 1952 -

Bus Service of Marshfield Green Harbor, Brant Rock, Marshfield to the railroad station at Greenbush (Scituate)

1939 -

Last train over the North River from Boston.

1940 Band Concerts were held on the Esplanade

1940 - 1970

Charlie’s Clam Snack Bar - Brant Rock.

1940
Beacon Novelty Shop (Mrs. Cassett) Esplanade and Low Rd. by Tingley’s Restaurant.
1940 Horton’s Bakery open in Brant Rock.

April 21,1941-

The Great Fire of the Ocean Bluff section of Marshfield, which destroyed in three hours claiming (456) houses, (96) garages, (12) stores, (2) hotels, (1) casino, (1) post office, and (1) church, (30) families were left homeless and in most cases escaping, only with the clothes on their backs. This brought forward for the first time better sub-division of plates of land. Because of the war, rebuilding did not really get started until 1946.

1941

Sea Walls - " Jetties " were built of Hewitt’s Point

1942 -

Tower 70 feet Brant Rock built for WW- II, it was 8 stories high, 14 feet square, with 12 " reinforced walls. 1999 town is given the property, except the Tower (only) and is still going to be operated by the Coast Guard in Boston.

1945-1953

Bud’s Place opens

1945 -

Lobster Claw Restaurant owned by Phillips esplanade Breakers 1986 owned by Kang Yu ? Lobster Tail ? sold to?

1945 - 1972
Mommy's Restaurant ( Harry & Helen Tigley ),1972 - 1975 Rita Jenkins owned Mommy's, 1975 - 1978 Arthur & Pats owned and ran Mummies in 1978 they changed the name to Arthur & Pat’s estaurant.

1946 -

Brant Rock acres was built.

1947

Green Harbor Park started being developed

1947 -

Sea Walls " Jetties " built between Webster Ave and the old Life Station.

1952 -

Rexham Town Beach opened, purchased from the Sea River Association - see 1950

1952

Brant Rock Supermarket- Dyke Rd.

1952

Blackman’s Trailer Park opened on Green Harbor Point

1956

Life Guards- established at Town Beaches

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1956

Town Pier & Bulkhead was started

1956

Green Harbor Tidal Basin started.

1957

Green Harbor Marina- opened Dyke Rd. 1962 sold to Lovell & White 1986 sold to Connolly

1959 -

School- New High School built (Furnace Brook) replaces the old school at Main St. this school was planed in 1957 $ 1,685,000

1960

Brant Rock Fish Market (Hank Dunbar)- Ocean St.

1960

Green Harbor Yacht Club opened

1962 -

Coast Guard Station purchased article # 48 $ 2,000.00 (Brant Rock) 1893 - 1915 was used as a Life Boat Station 1915 - 1947 was used as a Coast Guard Station. The town tore down the building in (1976).

1963 -

Route 3-Southeast Expressway opened joining the Expressway in Hanover to Kingston

1965 -

Green Harbor Golf Club open -Manual Francis bought the land in 1965 (165) acres, front nine was opened, and in 1977 the back nine holes were opened.

1989

Harbor Park and Parking Lot built. (Brant Rock) Way Town Pier R

1989

Park built on the old Brant Rock Dump

1994

Humarock built sand dunes to help the area dunes cost $ 650,000.

1998

Fire- Fairview Inn burns down, hopes to rebuild in the year of 2000.

11/2000

The Fairview Inn 133 Ocean Street has started to be re-building with
the foundation already has been completed and hopes to open in the summer of
2001.

12-23-01

This is the 101st anniversary of the very first time that voice was
conveyed by radio wave. It was the prelude to the world's first radio
broadcast, which took place on Christmas Eve from Brant Rock in 1906...

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" Thanks to Bob Cheeseman for allowing me to use his information "

He has lived and worked in Marshfield for 45 years. He knew Dad ( Jack ) pretty well and he had ( 2 ) brothers that worked with Dad ( Jack ) while he was on the Marshfield Police Dept.

Town History "IN OUR PARENTS TIME"
By: Robert F Cheeseman
June 23, 1999
Revised: December 31, 2000

For more detailed information, go to - - - " Marshfield History "In Our Parents Time "