One Little History Chapter

One interesting piece of history the folks at the Stoughton Historical Society shared with us is that our house was once a popcorn factory. They still had a couple of the old boxes from the factory.

I wasn't sure about the time frame until I found this map dated 1876:

 

 If you look at the expanded section in the second map (expansion of the dry pond area), you can see the Clapp (our current house), Smith and Gay families are all neighbors.  The intersection shown in the expanded map section is the intersection of Plain St. and Bay Rd.