Visitors to Bacon Free Library will be seeing some changes to the exterior, one that reflects the area’s rich history.

The historic fence around the building is being restored through support from the Natick Community Preservation Fund.

The work is being done section by section this spring, the Natick Historical Society reports.

Versions of the fence date back to the 1840s.

The land remains today, as it has long been, Nipmuc homelands and a sacred site for descendants of the Nipmucs, Massachusetts, and Praying Indians who lived here in the 1600s and early 1700s.

The alternating cross and arrow motifs in the fence reference the history of the Praying Town of Natick established in 1651. The fence was last restored in 1970.