subject: Westboylston
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Clarendon Mills and pond
description- – View along East Main Street, across the Clarendon Mill pond, towards the Clarendon Mill complex. The mill pond was built byMajor Ezra Beaman in 1794 by diverting the waters of the Nashua River through a half-mile canal to provide water power to his mills. The millpond was doubled in size in 1847. The earliest mill on the site was a grist mill operated by Ezra Beaman. In 1819 the mill was converted to acotton mill and operated as the Beaman Manufacturing Company with machinery installed by special arrangement with Samuel Slater of Pawtucket,Rhode Island. Clarendon Mills was one of six mills in West Boylston to manufacture cotton. In 1895 the mill was equipped with 10,950 spindles andemployed 195 operatives. There is an unknown man next to a bicycle standing in front of the mill pond fence.
- – Textile industry - Massachusetts - WestBoylston
- – Cotton manufacture - Massachusetts - West Boylston
- – West Boylston (Mass.) - History
- – Is part of the Sargent collection of photographs and hand-drawn maps detailing the buildings surrounding the center of WestBoylston during the 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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- – 1895-1905
Road to French Hill and Clarendon Mills
description- – View along East Main Street, across the Clarendon Mill pond, towards the Clarendon Mill complex. The state road to Boylstoncontinues along the ridge. Note the clearing and drainage of the mill pond as the construction of the Wachusett Reservoir progressed. The ridge tothe left of the image was the location of mill tenement buildings for workers of the Clarendon Mills. Circa 1895-1905.
- – Wachusett Reservoir (Mass.) - History
- – Textile industry - Massachusetts - WestBoylston
- – Cotton manufacture - Massachusetts - West Boylston
- – West Boylston (Mass.) - History
- – Is part of the Sargent collection of photographs and hand-drawn maps detailing the buildings surrounding the center of WestBoylston during the 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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- – 1895-1905
Catholic Church and priest's house
description- – From left to right: the rectory of St. Anthony's Church and the church itself located on the northern side of East Main Streetand adjacent to the Baptist (Old Stone) Church. The rectory was relocated during the construction of the Wachusett Reservoir to 29 CentralStreet. Circa 1895-1905. The priest at the time was Father Patrick O'Reilly.
- – St. Anthony's Church (WestBoylston, Mass.) - History
- – West Boylston (Mass.) - History
- – Catholic church buildings - Massachusetts - West Boylston - History
- – Is part of the Sargent collection of photographs and hand-drawn maps detailing the buildings surrounding the center of WestBoylston during the 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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- – 1895-1905
Cowee's Grist Mill and house
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
- – Dwellings - Massachusetts - WestBoylston - History
- – First Baptist Church (West Boylston, Mass.) - History
- – West Boylston (Mass.) - History
- – Gristmills - Massachusetts - West Boylston
- – 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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- – 1895-1905
Lower Prospect Street
description- – View from Lower Prospect Street showing the area of the valley with the beginnings of the deconstruction of the buildings tomake way for the Wachusett Reservoir. Note the stacked lumber and piles of tree lengths surrounding the farm in the foreground. To the left ofthe image is the Nashua River and the stone bridge as well as the Massachusetts Central Railroad tracks and station with the hotel beyond.
- – Dwellings - Massachusetts - WestBoylston - History
- – West Boylston (Mass.) - History
- – Massachusetts Central Railroad - History
- – 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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- – 1895-1905
In the"valley"- triangle and stores
description- – View of the Lower Common at the junction of Prospect Street and Clarendon Street. To the left of the image is the Common surrounded by a distinctive split rail fence. The first building on the right housed Provision Market, operated by Antoine Snow, on the first floor and the Grand Army Hall (George C. Wells Post) on the second. The next, shorter building was the police station. The next building is the West Boylston House.
- – West Boylston (Mass.) - History
- – Dwellings - Massachusetts - WestBoylston - History
- – Is part of the Sargent collection of photographs and hand-drawn maps detailing the buildings surrounding the center of West Boylston during the 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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- – 1895-1905
Driving up from the valley
description- – View along East Main Street with an unidentified man driving a horse-drawn wagon. In the lower left-hand corner of the imageis the split-rail fencing that surrounds the Lower Common. Circa 1895-1905
- – Dwellings - Massachusetts - WestBoylston - History
- – West Boylston (Mass.) - History
- – 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 byMiss Martha A. Sargent.
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- – 1895-1905
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