creator: D'onofrio, Jayne M.
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Boat house and ice houses, Lake Quannapowitt, circa 1906 [picture] / Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department.
description- – 1 picture :
- – "Ice harvesting on both Lake Quannapowitt and Crystal Lake was a large part of Wakefield's winter scene, starting in the mid-1800s and continuing until the 1940s. According to a lecture given by Town Historian Ruth Woodbury in 1957, there were some three dozen ice houses operating at one time: the 24-ice house Boston Ice Company on the northwest shore of Lake Quannapowitt; the People's Ice Company on Hall Park; the Whipple-Morrill on North Avenue, east of the Hartshorne House; Morrill-Atwood on Spaulding Street; Nichols Ice Company on the site of the Col. Connelly Park; and three on Crystal Lake. The Morrill-Atwood Ice House, next to the Wiley Boathouse on Spaulding Street, began harvesting ice in the 1870s. Owner John G. Morrill built a storage facility around 1878 before joining forces with Boston hotel owner J. Reed Whipple in 1890. Together they purchased a portion of the Hartshorne Meadow (now Veterans Field) and erected ice houses to supply ice not only to Whipple's three hotels: the Parker House, Young's, and the Touraine, but to other large users in Boston. Whipple sold his shares in 1897 to Frank H. Atwood who was by then a partner in Morrill's ice house on Spaulding Street. Morrill-Atwood sold ice locally while Whipple-Morrill exported their ice to other locations. Atwood remained as the owner of both ice houses following John Morrill's death in 1904. In 1919, Atwood left the wholesale business and sold the Hartshorne Meadow ice-houses to the Porter-Milton Company. The buildings were destroyed by fire in September 1929, and the site was subsequently purchased by the Town. The Morrill-Atwood Ice house was sold to Albert S. Anderson in 1926. In April 1945, the Metropolitan Ice Company of Somerville purchased the property, never intending to harvest ice, but to continue the electric ice manufacturing business started in 1932 by Anderson. Just months after its purchase, Metropolitan Ice Company tore down two of the original buildings, and the final part of the original building was razed in 1960." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.
- – 2008-06-24T18:36:36Z
- – 2008-06-24T18:36:36Z
- – 2005.
- – 2005.
- – 2004
- – Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department calendar 2005 ; April.
- – Wakefield (Mass.) History Pictorial works.
- – Massachusetts Wakefield
Highway Department garage, North Avenue, 1930 [picture] / Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department.
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- – "The Highway Department was one of several public works-related departments that operated independently of one another. In 1812, there were three Surveyors of Highways and by the end of the 1800s, the Town was separated into sections, with one person responsible for repairs and maintenance of the streets in each section. By the early 1900s, the work was overseen by the Superintendent of Streets. A metal building, manufactured and erected in 1928 by the Wakefield Garage Manufacturing Company, was located at the rear of the highway lot on North Avenue and used for storage purposes. In 1930, the wagon shed at the yard was converted into a six-stall garage, and the lantern room at the end of the wagon shed was made into an office. The second floor of the barn was altered with an office built in the front part of the building and a stock and tool room in the back. On June 12, 1950 a special election was held to elect the first Board of Public Works, a board created by an Act of the Massachusetts Legislature which stated that a 'Board of Public Works was to officially take over the operations, duties and obligations of the Moth and Tree, Park and Cemetery, Water and Sewer, and Highway Departments, as well as all Town buildings under the supervision of the Selectmen, the care of the dumps, and the collection of garbage' by September 1, 1950. An Engineering Department was also created. The members of the first Board of Public Works, R. Francis Shea, R. Lee Lillie, and Richard J. Volpe met each week to familiarize themselves with the duties of each division and to hire a Director, Joseph H. DeFeo of Winthrop." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.
- – 2008-06-24T18:36:43Z
- – 2008-06-24T18:36:43Z
- – 2005.
- – 2005.
- – 2004
- – Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department calendar 2005 ; September.
- – Wakefield (Mass.) History Pictorial works.
Steamer Minnie Maria, circa 1873 [picture] / Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department.
description- – Photo courtesy of the Wakefield Historical Society.
- – 1 picture :
- – "The steamer, Minnie Maria, was built by Augustus Taylor, who 'had Mr. Moody do the actual work on the steamer,' according to the diary of Capt. James F. Emerson. The steamer was launched on Lake Quannapowitt on June 10, 1871. In 1874, a 30' canal was started through Reading Meadow to take Reading residents aboard, but was later abandoned. The steamer was drawn out of the lake on November 26, 1874, and, on May 24, 1876, the steamer was drawn to Spy Pond in Arlington by ten horses. The Minnie Maria was destroyed by fire in February 1878. In the photograph, the Minnie Maria was opposite 'the Carpenter's house - to the left of the steamer was Mrs. Courtney's laundry,' according to an entry in the diary." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.
- – 2008-06-24T18:36:30Z
- – 2008-06-24T18:36:30Z
- – 1992.
- – 1992.
- – Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department calendar 1992 ; November.
- – Wakefield (Mass.) History Pictorial works.
- – Massachusetts Wakefield.
Wakefield, 1894 [picture] / Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department.
description- – 1 picture :
- – "This view of the town of Wakefield was taken from Curve Street in 1894. Among the landmarks and buildings which can be seen are the Col. James Hartshorne House on Church Street, First Baptist Church, Unitarian Universalist Church, Lincoln School, the Wakefield Rattan Company chimney, the Wakefield Town Hall, and the Methodist Church (which was then located on Albion Street.)" -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.
- – 2007-12-20T21:41:49Z
- – 2007-12-20T21:41:49Z
- – 1994.
- – 1994.
- – Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department calendar 1994 ; Inside back cover.
- – Wakefield (Mass.) History Pictorial works.
- – multiple URL identifiers
Patrick J. McLaughlin, Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department's first gas supervisor [picture] / Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department.
description- – Photo courtesy of Alice Fitzpatrick.
- – 1 picture :
- – "Patrick J. McLaughlin was the gas department's superintendent when the Town of Wakefield purchased the privately-owned Citizens' Gas Company in 1894. His association with Wakefield's gas service began before the town's purchase, and at a 1935 banquet in his honor, he reflected upon his first encounter with the department. He recollected finding the gas holder on North Avenue on the ground, and working from Friday until Monday to get it standing. From then on, the old gas holder stayed put until it was dismantled in the early 1940s. Mr. McLaughlin was instrumental in servicing the needs of Wakefield's gas customers for nearly 50 years." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.
- – 2007-12-20T21:41:37Z
- – 2007-12-20T21:41:37Z
- – 1999.
- – 1999.
- – Wakefield Municipal Gas&Light Department calendar 1999 ; Inside back cover.
- – Wakefield (Mass.) History Pictorial works.
- – multiple URL identifiers
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