History of Wareham, Massachusetts, USA

Wareham, Massachusetts
Plymouth county. The surface of this town is generally level, with a light, sandy soil, not very productive. It is favorably situated for manufacturing purposes, being watered by two fine mill streams, and for ship building, the fishery, and foreign and domestic commerce, having a number of good harbors at the head of Buzzard's bay.

Wareham lies 50 miles S.S.E. from Boston, 16 S. from Plymouth, and 15 E.N.E. from New Bedford. It was incorporated in 1739. Population, 1830, 1,885; 1837, 2,166.

There are in this town six nail factories, six air and cupola furnaces, two rolling mills, 2 cotton mills, a paper mill, and manufactures of vessels, salt, nail casks, chairs, cabinet ware, leather, boots, shoes, &c.: the total value of these manufactures, the year ending April 1, 1837, was $1,260,637. The number of hands employed in these manufactures was 682. One whale ship, of 374 tons, belongs to this place: the cargo of oil, in 1837, amounted to $78,286.

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Wareham was called Agawam by the Indians, which name seems to have been common to several places, and meant 'A place of resort for migratory fish.'

Its first permanent settlers came from Hingham. It belonged to Plymouth until it was incorporated.

Wareham has a good harbor at the head of Buzzard's Bay, and the British attempted to burn the village in 1814.

Its commerce is considerable, its water privileges good, and its chief manufactures are nails, and other articles of iron.

Distance from Plymouth, 16 miles; from Boston, 50.

Wareham, a post-village in Plymouth co., Massachusetts, on the Cape Cod Branch rail road, 40 miles S. E. by 8. from Boston. Contains 1 bank and the Tremont ironworks. Population of the township, 3186.

Wareham is a large town in the southerly part of Plymouth County, at the head of Buzzard's Bay, and 50 miles southeast of Boston. The Cape Cod Division of the Old Colony Railroad enters the town at the northwest, sends the Fairhaven Branch from Tremont (West Wareham post-office) southward, then swerves to the southeast; the other stations being South Wareham, Wareham (centre and chief village), East Wareham, Onset and Buzzard's Bay. These — excepting the last — are post offices. The other villages are Agawam, Onset Bay and Tihonet.

The boundaries are Carver and Plymouth on the north, the latter, with Bourne (separated by Buttermilk Bay), on the east, Buzzard's Bay on the south, and Marion and Rochester on the west, with Middleborough at the northwest corner. Several harbors, coves, creeks and inlets run far up into the town from the bay, forming many points and peninsulas, and giving a remarkably circuitous shore line. The assessed area is 18,550 acres. There are 4,307 acres of...

Ware'ham, a post-village in Wareham township, Plymouth co., Mass, on Buzzard's Bay, and on the Old Colony Railroad, 49 miles S.S.E. of Boston, and about 16 miles N.E. of New Bedford. It has 2 or 3 churches, a national bank, a savings-bank, a newspaper office, and manufactures of nails, brass, &c. Pop. of the township, 2874.

Wareham, a banking post-village in Wareham town ship (town), Plymouth co., Mass., on Buzzard's Bay and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 49 miles SSE. of Boston. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3482.