The house has stood in Foxborough for over 229 years.
Ron Young has owned the Lafayette House in Foxborough more than 20 years, but the building itself has been around for a lot longer. Young said the house has been around for 229 years. It was originally the Bristol County Courthouse and stagecoach house called the Everett Inn, even though the property is not in Bristol County. “At some point, the court left,” he said. “This building is not in Bristol County … the building was located here primarily because it’s halfway between Boston and Providence – what a horse does in one day is 20 miles and it’s 20 miles to Providence from Boston. That’s why it was built here. It was once called the halfway house, the white house ... this road out front [Route 1] was the main road.” Young said he is an …
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Here’s a brief summary of happenings around town and topics discussed at Tuesday’s Foxborough Board of Selectmen meeting.
Foxborough Chief of Police Edward O’Leary told Foxborough Patch prior to Tuesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting that Foxborough Police arrested two teens Monday night after they allegedly broke into “a booth at the fields near the playground behind the Igo School.” “The two teens took some merchandise from the booth,” O’Leary said. “The alarm went off and the evening shift [officers] did a great job of responding to the situation.” O’Leary said Foxborough Police were able to recover “most” of the merchandise and arrested the teens, who were attempting to call a friend to pick them up, according to O’Leary. “They didn’t plan they’re escape well,” O’Leary said. “They didn’t have a get-away car and tried to call one.” O’Leary said the names of …
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Foxborough Town Hall
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