Clarendon Mills and pond

Clarendon Mills and pond

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Boylston

View along East Main Street, across the Clarendon Mill


pond, towards the Clarendon Mill complex. The mill pond was built by


Major 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 mill


pond 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 a


cotton 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 and


employed 195 operatives. There is an unknown man next to a bicycle


standing in front of the mill pond fence.

Sargent, Edgar E.

C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/

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