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IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Roy KirbyApril 7, 2010 781.834.9647

Marshfield Hatch Mill EarnsNational Register of Historic Places Designation

MARSHFIELD The Hatch Homestead and Mill Historic District in Marshfield has been accepted by the

National Park Service, Department of the Interior, for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

The National Register is the nations official list of buildings, districts, sites, structures and objects that

retain their historical character and are important to local, state or national history. The National Register

was established under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and is administered in the

Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the Massachusetts Historical Commission.

The Hatch Mill, built in 1759, is the last remaining water-powered saw mill on the North River. During the

18th century the mill played an integral part of the bustling ship building industry on the South Shore.

The Hatch Mill Restoration & Preservation Group, Inc. is a non-profit volunteer driven organization

created to restore Marshfield's Hatch Mill into an operational, educational and historically preserved site.

BACKGROUND & NEWS

In 2004, the Hatch Mill Restoration and Preservation Group, Inc. (a 501(c)3) was formed and negotiated

the sale of 3.5 acres, two historic buildings, and a pond on Union Street from the Marshfield Historical

Society. That winter work began on a new temporary roof for the Mill that had been in operation from the

1700s to the 1960s. Not only had this site, unlike Plimoth Plantation or Sturbridge Village, been in actual

operation on its original location, its woodcutting technology was six centuries old--and it was right here

in Marshfield!

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Marshfield High School students then became involved in the Mill's restoration, and even made an

award-winning documentary in 2007 ("Hatch Mill Remembering Our Past") about their work there. That

documentary in turn helped to facilitate a grant from the Marshfield CPA for $120,250 the same year,

followed by a $50,000 matching grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission to be used for theinitial stabilization of the structure.

Thus far, in the last three years, the students at Marshfield High have dismantled the attached carriage

shed at the Mill, recreated its post and beam structure, and brought it back to the site and "barn-raised" it

again in its original location. Lumber for the shed was donated by Copeland & Sons saw mill on Route

139, as was roofing material by a Duxbury resident through Goodrich Lumber in Kingston.

Preparations such as these are in conjunction with the July visit to Marshfield of many Hatch familymembers as part of their family reunion.

Additionally, Scituate Federal Savings Bank has announced a Dollar for Dollar Fundraising Campaign.

Between April 1, 2010 and September 1, 2010 the Bank will match, dollar-for-dollar, contributions

generated by the Hatch Mill Restoration and Preservation Group, Inc. Dr. David Stinebeck of Marshfield,

will be the Chairman of the Campaign. Dr. Stinebeck earned a PhD. in American Studies from Yale

University and is the former Dean of Liberal Arts at Quinnipiac University as well as a former Interim

President, Provost, and Trustee at Albright College. He will be assisted by Roy Kirby, the 2003Marshfield Citizen of the Year and longtime investor of time and labor into the Mill's restoration. They

welcome your interest at dstinebeck@concordantconsulting.org.

In addition, the Hatch Mill Restoration & Preservation Group Inc. will be appearing before Marshfield's

Conservation Commission on Tuesday, April 20, at 7:30, for a Notice of Intent, within compliance with

"Wetlands Protection Act".

These grass-roots efforts are critical to the celebration and eventual showcasing of the Hatch Mill as oneof the South Shore's premier historical and educational sites, as recently featured in the April 2010 issue

of South Shore Living Magazine.

For additional information please call visit http://hatchmill.org.

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