2120, 2125, and 2130 Water St., Dighton, Massachusetts. County/parish: Bristol.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 05, 1998. NRIS 97000625.
3 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure. 1 contributing object.
The Coram Shipyard Historic District is a historic district encompassing a colonial-era shipyard at 2120, 2125, and 2130 Water Street in Dighton, Massachusetts. The district includes two houses, built c. 1700, and the archaeologically sensitive site of a shipyard which operated for a roughly five-year period between 1698 and 1703. The shipyard site is now home to the Taunton River Yacht Club, whose property includes the wharf built by Thomas Coram and John Hathaway, the proprietors of the shipyard. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794436