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Whitman was originally settled and was known as the Little Comfort section of Bridgewater. The area became part of the Town of Abington in 1712.  Eventually, in 1875, the area was made a township by the state legislature and was originally known as South Abington.  At a town meeting on May 3, 1886, a vote was taken and the name was changed to Whitman. During its early development, the Town of Whitman was largely an agricultural community. The first industry developed on the downstream side of the Schumatuscacant river. It was in this area that the first industrial canal and tunneling of the colony were constructed in 1745. Trees from the town's forests provided a source of timber for several seaport towns. Timbers from Whitman were used to construct the frigate U.S.S. Constitution also known as Old Ironsides.