Various plants of the genus Sabbatia usually have pink cymose flowers and occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes.

Sabbatia chloiroides grows in Plymouth county, on the margin of ponds; in July it has large, showy pink flowers.

On October 18, 2005, much of downtown Taunton was closed when the century-old wooden dam began to collapse due to heavy rainfall; fears of floods up to 6 feet (1.8 m) deep caused mass evacuation.

Lake Sabbatia and Watson Pond are located entirely within the boundary of the state-designated Area of Critical Environmental Concern, the Canoe River Aquifer.

In April 2007 the residents of the Lake Sabbatia area formed a civic organization devoted to rebuilding the Morey's Bridge Dam at Bay Street.