Place:Avon, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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NameAvon
TypeTown
Coordinates42.117°N 71.033°W
Located inNorfolk, Massachusetts, United States
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Avon is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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The first settler in the land that would become Avon was Moses Curtis, a blacksmith from Braintree, Massachusetts. With most of his surviving children living near him, by 1749 the locale was called Curtis Corners.[1]


The Third Baptist Meeting House was erected in East Stoughton on 30 March 1848.[1]

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