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• 1670 - Halifax is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1734 - Halifax is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1839 - Halifax
  Halifax, Massachusetts
  Plymouth county. The Indian name of this place was Monponset. It lies 28 miles S.S.E. from Boston and 12 W. by S. from Plymouth. The surface of the town is generally level, with considerable good soil. Monponset and other ponds are large collections of water, and the sources of valuable mill privileges. There are a cotton and woolen mill in the town, and manufactures of shoes and straw braid;—total amount of manufactures about $150,000. Halifax was incorporated in 1734. Population, 1837, 781.
  The New England Gazetteer containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England: also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands and fashionable resorts within that territory. Alphabetically arranged. By John Hayward, author of the Columbian Traveller, Religious Creeds, &c. &c. Boston: John Hayward. Boyd & White, Concord, N.H. 1839
  
• 1845 - HALIFAX. (Pop, 734. Inc. 1734.)
  Halifax was composed of the north part of Plimpton, the northeast of Middleborough, and the south of Pembroke, which then included Hanson.
  
  It was probably named in compliment to the Earl of Halifax, an
  able minister of Queen Anne.
  
  Lumber, shoes, cotton and woollen goods, are the chief sources of
  industry.
  
  Distance from Plymouth, 12 miles ; from Boston, 28.
  An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845
  
• 1854 - Halifax
  Halifax, a post-township of Plymouth co., Massachusetts, 30 miles S. 8. E. from Boston. Population, 784.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
•   1870 - Halifax, Mass., seems not to be a thriving place. It is eighteen years since the last new house was built.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  October 22, 1870
  
• Halifax Massachusetts, 1890
  Halifax lies in the central part of Plymouth County, 28 miles southeast of Boston by the Old Colony Railroad, which passes along its northeastern border. It has for its boundaries Hanson and Pembroke on the north; Jones River Pond and Plympton on the east; the latter and Middleborough on the south; and Bridgewater and East Bridgewater on the west. Its assessed area is 9,378 acres; about one half of this being more or less wooded.
  
  The land in the eastern part of the town is level; in the western; part diversified by gradual swells and valleys. Monponset Pond, a beautiful sheet of water about two miles long by half a mile broad, lies in the northern part of the town; and there are a series of small ponds across the town from this to Robbin's Pond, in Bridgewater, just over the western line. Great Cedar Swamp extends from the centre of the town over the northern line. The Winnetuxet River, a narrow and circuitous stream, flows through the southwestern section of the town, and joins... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Halifax
  Halifax, a post-hamlet of Plymouth co, Mass: in Halifax township, on the Old Colony Railroad, 9 miles N.W. of Plymouth. It has 3 churches, a common school, and a box-factory. Pop. of the township, 562.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
• 1916
  Halifax, a post-village of Plymouth co., Mass., in Halifax township (town), on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 9 miles NW. of Plymouth. Pop. of the town in 1900, 522.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
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