Mother Brook Lower Mill Pond Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

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

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 13 Berry Ln; 171, 185, 202 Bussey St; 222, 235, 243-245, 251 Colburn St; 297, 303-307, 315-317/319 High St; Maverick St Dam, Colburn St east of Bussey St, Bussey St between Colburn Str & Aiello Dr; Maverick St between Colburn and High Sts, Dedham
When was it listed? May 2025
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100011841 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

168 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Mother Brook Lower Mill Pond Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 433 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Smoking	24
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	2

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
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WESTWOOD
4 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	NEEDHAM
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM
3 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	NEEDHAM
23 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mother Brook Lower Mill Pond Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Walpole Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
West Roxbury Crushed Stone Operatio	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Greendale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Town of Needham	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Maps showing this location

19 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.

1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1970 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000
1970 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 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
Endicott Estate	0.5 miles	2002
Fairbanks House	0.7 miles	1966
Ames Schoolhouse	0.9 miles	1983
Norfolk County Courthouse	0.9 miles	1972
Dedham Village Historic District	1.2 miles	2006
Paul's Bridge	2.1 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011841 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.