ENGLISH

The Lost Mill Village of Middlesex Fells

By Douglas L. Heath , Alison C. Simcox

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2017
ISBN
9781439661703, 2017934948, 9781467136679
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3686754 bytes)
Series
Brief History
Pages
\0
Time added
2022-10-02 20:39:47
BUS070010BusinessNonfictionPHO019000PhotographyTravelTRV018000

Description

One of the earliest mill communities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony formed along Spot Pond Brook, a few miles north of Boston. Thomas Coytmore built the first mill in 1640 at the brook's downstream end in "Mistick Side" (present-day Malden). Other mills sprang up along the brook as well. Today, most of Spot Pond Brook is hidden in culverts beneath the busy streets of Malden and Melrose. However, remnants of the lost mill village of Haywardville—foundations, millruns and ponds and waterfalls—are preserved within Middlesex Fells Reservation, part of Boston's world-famous Metropolitan Park System. Authors Douglas L. Heath and Alison C. Simcox trace the history of this thriving early American community.

Similar books