Straw Hat City: Old Foxborough Common

A driving tour through the churches, memorial hall, and burying ground clustered around the green that anchored Foxborough's straw-hat era

Towns decide what they are going to be, usually in a handful of streets. These are the ones in Foxborough. Five stops over 0.3 miles, about 20 minutes of driving. The story for each stop plays as you arrive, so nothing has to be looked up and nobody has to be followed.

Foxborough has two MassRoam tours and no two cover the same ground. It works as well at eight in the morning as it does at dusk. Stop for coffee, pick it back up.