Povoas Park

Povoas Park is a gift of the Povoas family to the town of Easton, MA.  Antonio Povoas, who came to America from Portugal when he was 19 in 1930, purchased the land – and a building located on the land – on July 13, 1960. On one of the benches is a plaque dedicated to Antonio and Mary Povoas.  Antonio, a World War II combat medic in the European theater, and Mary, who also was born in Portugal were married for 43 years. Mary died in 1987, and Antonio died in 1988, one day short of the year anniversary of his wife’s death.  It is fitting and only right that a public park in Easton have a Portuguese name. The Portuguese, along with the Swedish and Irish, were the primary ethnic tribes that followed the English as settlers of our town.  And, as they did throughout America, when the Portuguese came to Easton, they wasted no time in establishing that they couldn’t be outworked, and that they would love their new home as fervently as any group to come here