Holy Family Church Complex Historic District

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 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 18 North Avenue, 403 Union Street, and 408 Union Street, Rockland
When was it listed? November 2025
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100012359 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

398 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 398 fires within 5 miles of Holy Family Church Complex Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning	191
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	115
Recreation and ceremony	38
Smoking	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	4
Fireworks	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
7 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Holy Family Church Complex Historic District: 10 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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
Bates Brothers Realty Trust Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bates Brothers Seam Face Granite Co	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Bristol Pit & Plant Lorusso	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ernest Minelli Inc Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Margetts Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Marshfield Sand and Gravel	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Plymouth Quarries	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Weymouth Quarry	Granite	Producer
F T Read and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
J F Price Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Plymouth 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
Rockland Trust Company	0.2 miles	1989
Phoenix Building	0.3 miles	1989
Rockland Memorial Library	0.4 miles	1989
Grand Army of the Republic Hall	0.5 miles	1997
Lower Union Street Historic District	0.6 miles	1989
Emerson Shoe Company	0.7 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012359 in Record Group 79.
Plymouth County	All 138 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.