Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
“The Redman Farm House is a historic house in Canton, Massachusetts. It is a wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, end chimneys, and clapboard siding.”
Wikipedia article Redman Farm House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Canton Town in History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 names Canton. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The territory, including what is now Canton, Sharon, Stoughton, and a part of Foxborough, together with some other parcels of land now in Wrentham and Dedham, was created a precinct, with the necessary of December, 1715. That territory was then a part of Dorchester, and the precinct was called Dorchester South Precinct, until it was all incorporated into a town by the name of Stoughton, in December, 1726. The precinct was organized and held its first meeting March 28, 1716, when Joseph Hewins was chosen moderator and precinct clerk, and Henry Crane, John Fenno, and Joseph Hewins, assessors. The following is a list of officers for the precinct annually, until its incorporation into a town in De-
Passage source: History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884.
This committee was instructed to visit the town, hear the parties, and report thereon. They spent four days in this service, and on Sept. 3, 1796, made their report in favor of an act of incorporation, and on the 23d of February, in the year 1797, the town of Canton was duly incorporated.
Passage source: History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Canton Town - 31,389 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Redman Farm House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 99 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 | 97 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 |
| Smoking | 47 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | WESTWOOD |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | DEDHAM |
| 29 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
| 28 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
| 25 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | STOUGHTON |
| 20 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 9,488 specimens collected within 10 miles of Redman Farm House between 1832 and 1975: 4,212 Plantae, 2,646 Animalia, 2,306 Fungi, 222 Protozoa, 47 Chromista, 34 Unrecorded, 21 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A C Gibson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald | 1900 | A. P. Chute | |
 | Cornus sericea subsp. sericea | 1832 | Nathaniel T. Kidder | Milton, Brook Road |
 | Carex echinata subsp. echinata | 1834 | not recorded | |
 | Mentha spicata L. | 1834 | H. Gillman | Brookline. |
 | Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke | 1844 | not recorded | |
 | Galium verum L. | 1846 | Kupell | |
 | Hamamelis virginiana L. | 1847 | Charles F. Girard | Roxbury |
 | Calycanthus L. | 1850 | not recorded | Hort. Cantab. [presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University] e Georgia. |
| Lepidium ruderale L. | 1850 | not recorded | ||
 | Malvastrum A.Gray | 1850 | not recorded | Hort. Cantab. [=Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University]. |
 | Assiminea succinea (L.Pfeiffer, 1840) | 1852 | not recorded | Roxbury, Boston |
 | Boerhavia Vaill. ex L. | 1852 | not recorded | Hort. Cantab. [Presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University]. |
All 9,488 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Redman Farm House: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simeone Stone Corp | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Stoughton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| A A Will Materials Cord | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Boston Sand and Gravel Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Canton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Canton Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sharon Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Stoughton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Town of Soughton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canton | $5,000 | Wires in Canton were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2020 | Flood | Canton | $2,000 | In Canton, a car was stuck in flooding on Boliver St. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canton | $800 | In Stoughton, a tree and wires were down on Kenmore Rd. |
United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.
The whole case file for this property - 833 words, 7 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 80000664, 7 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Old Barn | 1.0 miles | 1980 |
 | Ponkapoag Camp of Appalachian Mountain Club | 1.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Brookwood Farm | 1.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Refreshment Pavillion | 1.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Eliot Memorial Bridge | 1.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Great Blue Hill Weather Observatory | 1.4 miles | 1980 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80000664 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Norfolk County | All 342 listed properties in this county. |
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