Marshfield

Marshfield may refer to various places. In some instances, the name is a corruption of march, meaning a border.

In the United Kingdom

In the United States

Marshfield, Massachusetts

Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore. The population was 25,132 at the 2010 census.

See also: Green Harbor, Marshfield (CDP), Marshfield Hills, and Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock.

History

Geography

Marshfield is located on the South Shore, about where Cape Cod Bay meets Massachusetts Bay.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 31.74 square miles (82.2 km²). 28.46 square miles (73.7 km²) of it is land and 3.28 square miles (8.5 km²) of it (10.33%) is water. Marshfield is bordered by Massachusetts Bay to the east, Duxbury to the south and southeast, Pembroke to the west, Norwell to the northwest, and Scituate to the north and northeast. Marshfield is 18 miles (29 km) east of Brockton and 29 miles (47 km) southeast of Boston.

Marshfield is named for the many salt marshes which border the salt and brackish borders of the town. There are three rivers, the North (along the northern border of the town), South (which branches at the mouth of the North River and heads south through the town) and the Green Harbor River (which flows just west of Brant Rock and Green Harbor Point at the south of town).

Marshfield (Trenton, South Carolina)

Marshfield, also known as Old Marsh Home Place, is a historic plantation house located near Trenton, Edgefield County, South Carolina. The original house, built about 1831, rests on a foundation of brick and granite rocks. The house is an L-shaped, one-story frame residence with additions and alterations made in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Also located on the property are the contributing early-19th century shed or “smokehouse”; an early 19th-century house, constructed of hand-hewn and pegged timbers and containing a stone fireplace; the Marsh family cemetery; and the archaeological remains of additional outbuildings.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

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