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Named for its green landscape,
Marshfield has high seawalls, fine colonial
homes and ties to the great orator Daniel
Webster and holds several unique footnotes in
Massachusetts history books. Webster, a New
Hampshire native who served as a U.S. Senator
and U.S. Secretary of State, moved to Marshfield
in 1832, buying the estate of a loyal Tory
family. He spent 20 years there with his second
wife, leaving a legacy of political aspiration
and much admired speeches like those he gave at
the funerals of U.S. presidents John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson.
Visitors to Webster's home
will notice the adjacent Daniel Webster Wildlife
Sanctuary, a 500-plus acre Massachusetts Audubon
Society property that represents the best in
Marshfield's quiet beauty. The town's scenic
horizon is also home to the nation's oldest
continuously operating Congregational church and
has seen invention from Reginald Aubrey
Fessendon's radio broadcasts to Jesse Reed's
nail-making machine.
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Quick glimpse
Municipal website:
www.townofmarshfield.org
Incorporated in 1640...
Shares the coastline with Scituate and Duxbury and borders Norwell and
Pembroke inland...has 25,000 residents...,and 28.5 square miles of land.
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