WEST BRIDGEWATER TRAILS
War Memorial Park: River Street.
Built along the banks of the Town River as a federal Works Progress Administration project, the quiet park is the site of an annual peace day in September. It was a mill site from the 17th to 20th centuries, spanning iron works for the Ames shovel factory, as well as a sawmill, gristmill, shingle mill and even a pickle factory. A large boulder known as Pulpit Rock is a key feature of the park, and oral tradition maintains that the Reverend James Keith, minister of the First Church of Bridgewater, employed the rock as a pulpit from which he delivered the first sermon to colonists in 1663 under the Old Bridgewater Grant.
FRIENDSHIP PARK
WEST MEADOWS CONSERVATION AREA
BEAVERTON WOODS TRAIL
TOWN RIVER
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