I was just advised by a call from Mike Sullivan and Ken Feeney that the DPW today collapsed the old Medfield State Hospital root cellar, which was in a hill behind John and Laurie Nealon’s house on Copperwood Road and off the furthest in of the two softball field at McCarthy Park. The root cellar was apparently a 30’x20′ underground room, which had fieldstone walls that were cemented in place and a concrete roof, which was supported on RR rails that were held up by four brick columns that each measured 2’x2′.
Bobby Kennedy, Sr recalled that when the two softball fields were originally built, that the wooden door to the root cellar had been removed and they placed boulders against the opening to block the doorway. Recently, an opening at the doorway had been created large enough to allow a person to slip through, so for safety purposes the root cellar was collapsed.
Another piece of Medfield State Hospital history ended, and as a neighbor of the area I thought you would like to know what was going on.
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