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one of 500 National Register listings in Worcester County · listed in 2013 · category: Site · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Worcester County.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Foster, Jedediah, Homesite
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 objectss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Foster Hill Rd., West Brookfield, 01585
- When was it listed? 2013-08-27
- Category. site
- Township. West Brookfield town
- National Register reference number. 13000623 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
35 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Foster, Jedediah, Homesite between 2015 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 17 June 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 9 May 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 May 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 May 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 26 May 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 24 May 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 368 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 368 specimens collected within 10 miles of Foster, Jedediah, Homesite between 1857 and 1975: 192 Plantae, 88 Animalia, 86 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Hill, H. St. John, G.S. Torrey, A. Lavallee, A. P. Chute and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Carex tenera var. tenera | 1899 | R. M. Harper | |
 | Krigia virginica (L.) Willd. | 1857 | not recorded | |
 | Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd. | 1858 | J. Blake | |
 | Carex vestita Willd. | 1858 | J. Blake | Ware |
 | Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng. | 1858 | A. P. Chute | |
 | Celastrus scandens L. | 1858 | s.coll. | |
 | Ranunculus flabellaris Raf. | 1858 | A. P. Chute | |
| Trifolium agrarium L. | 1858 | not recorded | ||
 | Zizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch | 1859 | A. P. Chute | |
 | Cladonia squamosa Hoffm. | 1870 | M.E.T. | Hardwick |
| Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W. | 1894 | G. E. Stern | Lake Lashaway | |
| Calosoma calidum (Fabricius, 1775) | 1896 | Knab, Frederick (1865-1918) | Massachusetts |
All 368 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Foster, Jedediah, Homesite: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bond Washed Sand and Stone | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cemetery Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| E W Sykes Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Highway Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Brookfield, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2010 | Flood | West Brookfield | $1,350,000 | Ten homes along Quaboag Street were flooded when Quaboag Pond overflowed its banks. Route 148, Quaboag and Mill Streets were flooded. |
| July 2002 | Tornado (F1) | West Brookfield | $50,000 | Brief F1 touchdown |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $15,000 | Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds. An amateur radio operator recorded a 67 mph wind gust on their home weather station. |
| June 2006 | Lightning | West Brookfield | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $10,000 | In West Brookfield, a tree was down on a house and car on New Braintree Rd. A tree fell onto a roof of a house on East Main St. A tree was down on wires on Myrick Rd. Multiple trees and wires were down on Ragged Hill Rd. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $10,000 | Trees on Church Street and Woods Street were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $10,000 | Trees on Long Hill Road and on Central Street were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $8,000 | Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds in several locations across West Brookfield, including one downed onto wires on Draper Rugged Hill Road, one downed onto a car on East Main Street, and one blocking Brian Hill Road. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $2,000 | In West Brookfield, trees and wires were reported down. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $800 | In Warren, a tree and wires were down on Old Douglas Rd. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $500 | In West Brookfield, a tree was down on Birch Hill Road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | $300 | In West Brookfield, a funnel cloud was sighted by several emergency management officials from 5 surrounding towns. No actual tornado reached the ground. However, straight line winds downed wires on Checkered Lane. |
| May 2025 | Hail | West Brookfield | - | Quarter sized hail fell in West Brookfield. |
| September 2023 | Hail | West Brookfield | - | In West Brookfield, there was quarter size hail. |
| August 2020 | Flood | West Brookfield | - | In West Brookfield, Snow Rd at Rt 9 was closed due to flooding. |
| August 2020 | Flood | West Brookfield | - | In West Brookfield, Shea Rd was closed from Birch Hill Rd to Wickaboag Rd due to flooding. |
| April 2019 | Hail | West Brookfield | - | Amateur radio operators reported quarter size hail in West Brookfield. |
| May 1998 | Hail | West Brookfield | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | West Brookfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brookfield | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Homestead | 2.4 miles | 1975 | |
| North Brookfield Town House | 3.3 miles | 2001 | |
| Warren Public Library | 3.6 miles | 2000 | |
| Warren Town Hall | 3.7 miles | 2001 | |
| Barnes--Hill House | 6.2 miles | 2016 | |
| Crossman Bridge | 6.2 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000623 in Record Group 79. |
| Worcester County | All 500 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.
- Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
- 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.