The Old Schwamb Mill - copy print of original - original photograph taken in 1878, copy print made 1997 - photo shows, from left, the interconnected lumber dry house, sotage barn, and main manufacturing building of the Charles Schwamb Mill From Duffy: "This 1878 photograph shows, from left, interconnected lumber dry house, storage barn, and main manufacturing building for the Charles Schwamb Mill. After the Arlington Reservoir was built in 1872, the flow of Mill Brook was disrupted to the point that mill owners had to turn to steam engine power (and the town had to make large cash settlements to them for economic damages). Despite this changeover, the mill pond remianed critical to operations. There being as yet now town water supplied to the neighborhood, the boilder had to be filled each day with 'peat tea' to generate the steam. The pond is now gone, but the mill remains. In 1969, visionary conservationists recognized it as an historic industrial artifact with unique educational value and rescued the mill from certain demolition. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as The Old Schwamb Mill." Duplicate at 2020.12.11.
