description- – View across the valley below the Baptist (Old Stone) Church. To the left of the image are the buildings of the Cowee GristMill, owned by Edward A. Cowee, and the Cowee Bridge over which passes Holbrook Street and under which passes the South Branch of the NashuaRiver. The land in the foreground has been cleared making way for the construction of the Wachusett Reservoir. In the middle of the image are thehomes of George Hildreth (at the corner of the road leading to Oakdale) and then further on that road George Reed's organ shop and house. Atthe top of the hill are the Baptist parsonage and the Baptist (Old Stone) Church with the Pierce house opposite. Circa 1895-1905
subjectcollectionpublishercreatorrelation- – Is part of the Sargent collection of photographs and hand-drawn maps detailing the buildings surrounding the center of West Boylston duringthe period of 1895-1905. Presented to the Beaman Memorial Library, West Boylston, Mass. http://www.beamanlibrary.org/ on August 27, 1963 by Miss Martha A. Sargent.
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description- – View from across the South Branch of the Nashua River from the site of the remains of Holbrook Mill on the left bank lookingtowards the Cowee Grist Mill on the right bank. The Holbrook Mill, owned by Eli W. Holbrook, Oliver Eldridge, and Linus M. Harris, milled cottonsheeting and employed fifty hands. This area of the town was called Central Village. The image shows the Nashua flowing over the dam atCowee's Mill and under Holbrook Street and the Cowee Bridge. The land and buildings in the foreground have been cleared to make way for theconstruction of the Wachusett Reservoir. Circa 1895-1905.
subjectcollectionpublishercreatorrelation- – Is part of the Sargent collection of photographs and hand-drawn maps detailing the buildings surrounding the center of West Boylston duringthe period of 1895-1905. Presented to the Beaman Memorial Library, West Boylston, Mass. http://www.beamanlibrary.org/ on August 27, 1963 by Miss Martha A. Sargent.
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description- – Image of a gristmill as seen from the opposite side of the mill pond with a clear reflection of the mill in the pond. Two men lean against the open doorway of the mill. The caption on the back of the photograph reads,"Mill Valley Gristmill on Fort River which also is called Freshman River."
subjectcollectiondatepublishercreatorrelation- – Image is part of the Clifton Johnson Collection, 1880-1940. Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts. http://www.joneslibrary.org
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