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2015 Annual Report Silent Sentinel returns to duty Foxborough, Massachusetts 2015 Annual Town Report TOWN OF FOXBOROUGH Whereas a number of inhabitants belonging to the Towns of Wrentham, Walpole, Stoughton, and Stoughtonham, have represented to this Court the inconveniences that they labour under on account of their distance from the places of Public Worship in Several Towns to which they now belong and have earnestly and repeatedly requested that they may be incorporated into a Town, namely Foxborough, Norfolk County. INCORPORATED: June 10, 1778 POPULATION: 17,120 ELEVATION AT CORNER OF SOUTH & SCHOOL STREETS: 300 feet above sea level AREA OF TOWN: Approximately 21 square miles NUMBER OF MILES OF ACCEPTED ROADS WITHIN THE TOWN: 89.9 linear miles NUMBER OF MILES OF STATE HIGHWAYS WITHIN THE TOWN: 15.29 linear miles NUMBER OF MILES OF UNACCEPTED ROADS WITHIN THE TOWN: 5.19 linear miles TOTAL REGISTRATION OF VOTERS: As of December 8, 2015 U. GR PIZZA MA INTER AMER INDEP. PCT# DEM REP UNENR LIB CNST RAIN PARTY INDEP 3rd PIRATE REFORM INDEP PTY TOTAL 1 497 258 1,206 4 4 13 1,982 2 536 325 1,423 5 3 1 1 1 13 2,308 3 544 323 1,407 3 1 2 1 1 7 2,289 4 465 339 1,407 8 5 1 1 2 1 13 2,242 5 417 315 1,290 2 2 5 2,031 TOTAL 2,459 1,560 6,733 22 1 16 1 2 4 1 1 1 51 10,852 SENATORS IN CONGRESS Edward J. Markey (D) 255 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510 Elizabeth A. Warren (D) 317 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510 CONGRESSMAN, FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Joseph P. Kennedy, III (D) 306 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 COUNCILLOR, SECOND DISTRICT Robert L. Jubinville (D) 487 Adams Street, Milton, MA 02186 STATE SENATOR IN GENERAL COURT, BRISTOL & NORFOLK DISTRICT James E. Timilty (D) State House, Room 507, Boston, MA 02133 STATE REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT, FIRST BRISTOL DISTRICT Fred “Jay” Barrows (R) State House, Room 542, Boston, MA 02133 237TH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN OFFICERS FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS TOGETHER WITH THE REPORT OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND TOWN ACCOUNTANT / FINANCE DIRECTOR FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2015 A community and its memorial By Jack Authelet Town Historian Following a brief respite for repairs, the wooden statue of a Civil War soldier has been returned to duty in his familiar position on the cupola which caps Memorial Hall, Foxborough’s tribute to all those whose lives were touched by the war. The soldier was silent witness to our Darkest Hour of 1900, the failure of Van Choate Electric, the burning of the former Union Straw Works followed by another fire that took the magnificent Town House and Foxborough High School wing with the tragic loss of three firefighters and injuries to a fourth. Each year he stands, overlooking the base of the Common as we gather for our Memorial Day commitment to honor those who lost their lives in service to our nation and has seen us send men and women of the community off to World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Granada and the Persian Gulf. And even now, plans are being made to honor those who served as our nation fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and work will commence once an end date is declared for those conflicts. We can stand with pride knowing that each time our nation called, our community answered and we know that if America stands strong, the world may yet know a time when the sound of war is no longer heard. But what about this ‘living’ memorial with its iconic soldier standing watch over the center of the community? The height of that memorial speaks to the depth of Foxborough’s caring when planning a tribute to those who helped preserve the Union and abolished slavery. It was one of our finest hours as a community, a story that begs repeating as we celebrate the Silent Sentinel returning to duty in the very heart of our community. This is his story. O O O A solitary rider rode into Foxborough at 9 p.m. on April 15, 1861, looking for the home of Capt. David Shepard, commander of Company F of the 4th Regiment, State Militia. He carried a message: local troops had been called to duty in the Civil War and slowly the word spread, family to family, throughout the darkened night. Just 12 hours later, following a brief gathering in the center of town, they were marching to the train station in East Foxborough to report – as ordered – to Boston. The following day, they were on their way to Fortress Monroe, the first Union troops to reach Southern soil with the Stars and Stripes since the firing upon Fort Sumter. Hundreds more would follow the men of Co. F into the war, heavily engaged in many of the key battles as well as countless hours of routine patrols, moving supplies and supporting the Union cause at every turn. And through it all, the community stood firmly at their side paying bounties to fill quotas, caring for families in their absence, and supporting the Sanitary Commission to insure their health and well being. The war had taken a terrible toll on both the living and the dead. The cost was high, but the Union was preserved. We would remain the United States of America and slavery would be abolished – forever. The people of Foxborough did their part, with 187 men answering the call, 21 of whom died from injury or disease and two remaining unaccounted for, traced into a Confederate prison camp with no further word. As the healing commenced, many felt the names of those who gave their lives should be engraved in stone, that they should never be forgotten, and a committee was named. First tribute This was Foxborough’s first experience with the loss of fathers, husbands, brothers or neighbors in war. We had no casualties among those who served in the War of 1812. Foxborough was not incorporated until after the Revolutionary War. Families living here who were part of Wrentham, Walpole, Stoughton and Stoughtonham (now Sharon) had loved ones serving in the Revolutionary War and fortunately they all came home safely. Once we were incorporated, their service was credited to their new home town: Foxborough. But as the very dedicated committee commenced consideration of a memorial to the fallen of the Civil War, thoughts quickly turned to others who did not fall in battle, but returned home maimed and broken for life. The same challenges of war endured by the fallen and maimed, they reasoned, were also faced by every soldier who enlisted when their nation called. Committee members further noted the town could not forget the exhibition of patriotic self- sacrifice made when families yielded their claims on the young and strong in obedience to the call of country. In their absence, warm hearts and busy hands toiled for them and their fellow soldiers with ministries of love and caring until the conflict was over and peace returned. Consideration was expressed for all those whose lives were touched by the war and, they reasoned, a principle of gratitude demanded more than a monument to the fallen. The committee recommended a stone building as an alternative to an expensive marble tablet as it would be more ornamental and imposing. By attracting more attention, members reasoned, it would more effectually perpetuate the memory of those in whose honor it was erected. Setting aside a room for the preservation of historic artifacts and relics of the war would be of importance to the community, and the service of those in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 could also be recognized. A living memorial But the memorial they wanted to raise would be as much for the living as for the fallen and others who risked their lives with them. “The bestowal of good upon the children and comrades of the fallen is really honor shown to themselves,” the committee reasoned. “So is every effort put forth to prepare those who will be in future years the young men of the town to prove faithful to their country, an honor to those who died to defend it.” On that basis, they reasoned, a memorial building could satisfy the need for a Public Library and a well-conducted reading room. “Such a room, warmed and lighted, would furnish a safer place of resort than those now afford them when they had a leisure hour to spend.” The educational benefits gained through the town’s public library, they again reasoned in their report, “would tend to fit the future young men of the town to emulate the patriotism of those who went before them.” They realized having a building built for that purpose would not procure a library or furnish a reading room, but it might open a way by which private munificence might meet the need. The committee report, signed March 4, 1867, recommended the erection, in some suitable location, as upon the old buying ground, if a place can be secured, a stone building to be known as “Memorial Hall” or some other appropriate name. The committee report was taken to town meeting. The projected cost was $10,000 which was an enormous sum for a community which had paid many thousands of dollars in bounties to fill war quotas and did so much to support those serving and the families they left behind. And they were paying almost $2,000 annually to families of local men killed or disabled during the war.
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