Furnace Pond Beach

Pembroke's Furnace Pond Beach features a large pond in a neighborhood setting, ideal for fishing, paddling, and seasonal ice skating. Furnace Pond was once known as Herring Pond and takes its current name from one of Plymouth Colony's earliest blast furnaces, built nearby in the 1700s -- it later became a seasonal destination with a children's summer camp, bathing beaches, and even a Finnish bath house before the shoreline was developed with year-round homes.