Bristol-Norfolk

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Bristol-Norfolk is a region in Southeast Massachusetts. It includes northern Bristol County and some Norfolk county towns.

Cities and towns

• Attleboro - The former "Jewelry Capital of the World" and home to the LaSalette Shrine.
• Berkley (Massachusetts) | Berkley - Also home to the Dighton Rock State Park.
• Dighton (Massachusetts) | Dighton - Home to the mysterious Dighton Rock (the official "Explorer Rock" of Massachusetts.)
• Easton (Massachusetts) | Easton - Home to Stonehill College, The Rockery and historically provided shovels which laid the Union Pacific Railroad.
• Mansfield (Massachusetts) | Mansfield - Home to the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts.
• North Attleborough - The early mid-19th century leading producer of buttons in the nation.
• Norton (Massachusetts) | Norton - Home to Wheaton College and the Tournament Players Club of Boston (part of the PGA Tour's Deutsche Bank Championship.)
• Raynham - Site of the first iron works in America, a big milk bottle and produced the anchor for the Civil War-era ironclad USS Monitor.
• Rehoboth - Claims to be one of the birthplaces of public education in North America and former Guinness Book of Records for the town with the most golf courses in the U.S.
• Taunton (Massachusetts) | Taunton - "The Silver City" and "The Christmas City" and the seat of Bristol County, a regional hub and the center of the "Bridgewater Triangle" and a city rich in history.
• Canton (Massachusetts) | Canton - Headquarters of Reebok, Baskin Robbins, etc. and claims to have been the birthplace of Rising Sunday Stove Polish as well as the pay toilet.
• Dover (Massachusetts) | Dover - For Cryptozoologists and other curious bystanders, it is the home of the mysterious creature called the "Dover Demon."
• Foxborough - Home of Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots and New England Revolution; also, was home to the former world's largest straw hat making factory.
• Franklin (Massachusetts) | Franklin - Named in honor of Dr. Benjamin Franklin; also and the birthplace of the nation's first lending library and Horace Mann (America's father of public education.)
• Medfield (Massachusetts) | Medfield - Home to one of the ten oldest homes in the US and the "lost treasure" of Davis Wolfgang Hawke and former vacation spot of Walter Elias Disney (aka - Walt Disney.)
• Norwood - Area site of one of the original five houses built on the old Indian Trail from Medfield to Wrentham.
• Plainville (Massachusetts) | Plainville - Home of the mesh bag.
• Sharon (Massachusetts) | Sharon - Has one of the lowest crimes rates in the nation.
• Stoughton (Massachusetts) | Stoughton - Named for William Stoughton (the notorious Chief Justice at the Salem Witch Trials) and the site of the written Suffolk Resolves, which was the basis of the Declaration of Independence.
• Walpole (Massachusetts) | Walpole - Named after Sir Robert Walpole (the first Prime Minister of Great Britain) and home to one of two of the state's Supermax prisons.
• Westwood (Massachusetts) | Westwood
• Wrentham - Famous for its (Premium) Outlet Mall shopping and former home of Hellen Keller.

More Muslim friendly Destinations from Bristol-Norfolk

• Boston
• Cape Cod
• Newport (Rhode Island)

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