Caryville, Massachusetts

Caryville is a former mill village located in the northeastern corner of Bellingham, Massachusetts, United States, extending into the neighboring town of Franklin in the western part of Norfolk County.

Edward Rawson, the secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts, is recorded as the first European settler of Caryville and North Bellingham in the mid-1600s who owned a farm in the area.

Thomas Burch bought 200 acres of the land along the Country Road, an early name for the modern day Hartford Avenue through the center of Caryville.

Upon his death, his widow remarried William H. Cary, the namesake of the village, who had moved to Medway from Attleboro to work in cotton mills in 1818.

Caryville was a large and prosperous mill village that at one point in the 1800s petitioned to be set off as a separate town.