Carver, MA: Town History and Location

Carver is an inland Plymouth County town known for cranberry bogs, Edaville and King Richard's Faire. Call or text 508-466-5460 or book online.

Carver is an inland Plymouth County town known for cranberry bogs, Edaville and King Richard's Faire. Here's a short history of the town, plus how dumpster delivery works for Carver properties.

Archaeologists working at the Annasnappet Pond site in Carver found evidence of about 9,000 years of human habitation, including stone tools and a burial.

Carver was part of Plympton until 1790. Many residents lived too far from Plympton's church to attend, so they asked to form their own town, and Carver was incorporated that year. It's named for John Carver, the first governor of Plymouth Colony. Its early villages included South Carver, North Carver and Wenham, later called East Carver.

The swamps and bogs held iron ore, and by the 1730s it was being made into cooking pots and tools. Pope's Point Furnace, built in 1732 near Sampson's Pond, ran for about a century. Sheep and lumber mills also kept the town going through the 1800s.

As the iron trade faded in the late 1800s, farmers turned the same wetlands into cranberry bogs. Growing started in the 1870s, and by 1900 Carver growers raised about a fifth of the cranberries grown in the United States. The bogs still shape the town today, keeping much of Carver rural.

Savery's Avenue, opened in 1860 by William Savery, is considered the first divided highway in America. It was built with trees left between the two roadways for "shade and ornament." Edaville, the narrow-gauge railroad attraction, opened in 1947 and is known for its holiday light displays. King Richard's Faire, a long-running Renaissance fair, runs on fall weekends. About 11,645 people lived in Carver at the 2020 census.

Plymouth Dumpster Rental delivers 10 to 30 yard roll-off containers to Carver homes, farms and job sites. Many Carver properties sit on long driveways or near bogs and soft ground, so tell us about access when you book and we'll plan placement.

Call or text 508-466-5460, or book at southshoredumpster.com/book. See also our Carver dumpster rental page.