George E. Keith Company Factory No. 8

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 44 Wharf Street, Weymouth
When was it listed? February 2025
Category. building
National Register reference number. 100011425 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

362 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 362 fires within 5 miles of George E. Keith Company Factory No. 8 between 2015 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	144
Debris and open burning	110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Smoking	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Fireworks	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEYMOUTH
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE
5 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	QUINCY
5 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEYMOUTH
4 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HINGHAM
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HINGHAM
29 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEYMOUTH

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of George E. Keith Company Factory No. 8: 9 producers, 8 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bates Brothers Seam Face Granite Co	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Marshfield Sand and Gravel	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Plymouth Quarries	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Weymouth Quarry	Granite	Producer
Bates Brothers Realty Trust Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bristol Pit & Plant Lorusso	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ernest Minelli Inc Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hingham Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Margetts Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Braintree Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1885 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1971 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
1971 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Washington School	0.5 miles	1986
Central Square Historic District	0.6 miles	1992
Jefferson School	0.7 miles	1981
Weymouth Civic District	0.7 miles	1992
John Adams School	1.2 miles	1985
Weymouth Meeting House Historic District	1.2 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011425 in Record Group 79.
Norfolk County	All 342 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.