Westwood Town Pound & Friendly's

Have you ever heard of a Town Pound? I hadn't, until basically just now.

In the early days of New England, most towns had "town pounds" where wayward cows and other livestock would be held if they were creating a ruckus throughout the town. At the time, grazing animals were not fenced in, so sometimes they'd wander off, necessitating the need for pounds. When the owner would come to find their furry friends, they would need to pay a fee to get it back. Towns in Massachusetts were legally obligated to have pounds.

The Westwood Town Pound was built in 1700. It's on a busy road and easy to miss. I only found it by seeing it on Google Maps.

How did we discover this? Isaac saw a post by Friendly's with a new sundae that looks like a pig and obviously wanted to have it. I'm a sucker for a Friendly's Conehead and have been since the 80s! We no longer have any Friendly's nearby and the closest is in Norwood. We were going straight from Natick where Isaac volunteers with 4H, so I decided to try to find a little historical site on the way. I saw the Westwood Town Pound on the map and read up on it. It is just the type of quirky history site I like and had to go see it.

So, I decided that the Westwood Town Pound would be our ice cream stop on the way to Friendly's! The Conehead and Puddles the Pig sundaes didn't quite look like their advertisement counterparts, but they tasted good.