Garage Door Repair in Sherborn, MA

Sherborn is a semi-rural town of about 4,500 people, six miles southwest of our office, where open space covers more than half of the land. It was incorporated in 1674, and its old center and a two-mile strip of North Main Street are both National Register historic districts. The Charles valley here was first known as Boggestow.

After the war the town changed fast. The population was about 1,245 in 1950, 3,309 in 1970 and 4,049 in 1980, and the new developments were laid out in one-, two- and three-acre zones. The town's own history adds that Sherborn was poor enough in the late 1800s that few people tore down old houses, so many from the 1700s and early 1800s survive, 77 of them on the National Register. A Sherborn route can run from a farmhouse garage to a newer three-bay door.

Town services are minimal and homeowners depend on their own wells and septic systems, and the Charles River Watershed Association notes that road salt runoff has contaminated both public and private wells in Massachusetts. The nearest NOAA station, at Natick, puts the 50 percent dates for first and last freeze at October 12 and April 26, a 169-day freeze-free season, so leaves and ice both reach the bottom track.