Lowney Chocolate Factory

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1903.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 150 Oakland St., Mansfield
When was it listed? April 2016
Category. building
When was it built? 1903
National Register reference number. 16000156 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Lowney Chocolate Factory between 2002 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Smoking	15
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	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
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
26 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
15 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
12 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
8 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
8 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lowney Chocolate Factory: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Easton Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Boro Sand and Stone Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Boro Sand and Stone, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dorrance Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Easton Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Plain Street Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wrentham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bristol 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.

1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:25000
1964 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1977 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Brockton 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
Soldiers' Memorial Library	1.3 miles	1995
Spring Brook Cemetery	1.6 miles	2007
Fisher-Richardson House	2.3 miles	1998
Furnace Village Historic District	4.3 miles	1983
Pitt Clarke House	5.0 miles	1976
Bay Road	5.2 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000156 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.