Rogers Grammar School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 0 Chestnut Street and 100 Pleasant Street, Fairhaven
When was it listed? December 2025
Category. building
National Register reference number. 100012360 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1885 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Rogers Grammar School, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Rogers Grammar School, surveyed 1885

Fires near this property

26 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Rogers Grammar School between 2015 and 2020, burning about 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
22 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 August 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 August 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MATTAPOISETT
4 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MATTAPOISETT

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rogers Grammar School: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Acushnet Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
	Blue Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Bristol 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.

1885 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Fairhaven quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1918 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:25000
1979 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

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
Unitarian Memorial Church	0.2 miles	1996
Fairhaven Town Hall	0.2 miles	1981
Ezekiel Sawin House	0.3 miles	1979
Fairhaven High School and Academy	0.6 miles	1981
Millicent Library	0.7 miles	1986
Fort Phoenix	0.8 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012360 in Record Group 79.
Bristol County	All 389 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.