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editIn 1825, Thomas Barrows was hired by Benjamin Bussey and George H. Kuhn to work at their mill on Mother Brook making broadcloths.[1][2][3][4] He worked at several mills on Mother Brook.[5]
Barrows retired in 1864 when the mill was sold.[1] He soon after purchased another mill on Mother Brook.[1][4][5][a] He made large additions to the mill, including a three-story ell.[4][6][5][1][7] He also improved the machinery, including replacing the water wheels with turbines and adding a steam engine.[4][8][1] With the additions, he transformed it into a woolen mill.[4]
He sold the mill in 1872, during a downturn in the woolen industry.[1][4]
Mother brook
edithistory
edit| Year | Owner | Manager | Product | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832[9] | John Lemist and Ezra W. Taft | In 1835, the stone mill which now stands upon the site was erected using Dedham Granite[10] and was supplied with new machinery for the manufacture of cotton goods.[9] The original building stood three stories high and measured 100' long by 40' wide.[10] It had a gable roof with a clerestory monitor that brought light into the attic.[10] The stone bell tower was capped with columns supporting a domed cupola.[10] The Corporation prospered under Mr Taft's management.[9] By the middle of the century it was producing 650,000 yards of cotton a year.[10] Ezra W. Taft continued to be the agent and manager of the corporation for about 30 years.[9] An unused building nearby was used by Edward Holmes and Thomas Dunbar beginning in 1846 for their wheelwright business using steam power.[11] Taft's paper mill mill burned on July 17, 1846.[12] | |||
| ~1835[13][14][6] | James Reed and Ezra W. Taft | ||||
| 1863[7][15] | Thomas Barrows[b] | Wool | Barrows enlarged the mill[7][6] and installed turbines and a steam engine.[8] | ||
| 1872[7] | Merchants Woolen Company | ||||
| 1875[7] | Royal O. Storrs and Frederick R. Storrs | Went out of business | |||
| 1882[7] | Merchants Woolen Company | ||||
| 1894[18][15] | J. Eugene Cochrane | Carpets and handkerchiefs | Third and fourth privileges under common ownership | ||
| 1897[19] | Cochrane Manufacturing Company | Norfolk Mills |  | ||
| After 1917[8][20][21] | Closed |  | |||
| Before 1927[22][23][24] | United Waste Company | Wool, reclaimed fabric,[24] and cloth recycling[8] | This was the final industrial use of the property.[15] | ||
| 1930s[6] | Shoddy wool | ||||
| 1986[8][25][6][26] | Bergmeyer Development Co. | Re-purposed for 86 condominiums[c] | Purchase price was $1.6 million.[8] A 25' waterfall runs through the complex.[27] Fires burned various sections of the complex in the 1980s.[28] |  | |
| Present day | Stone Mill Condominiums[29][28] |    |
The fourth privilege's second mill was located at present day Stone Mill Drive.
| Year | Owner | Manager | Product | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~1787[30][31] | Ruggles Whiting | Wire | |||
| 1814[30][31] | Nails | ||||
| 1819[30] | George Bird | Paper | Bird already owned the first mill at the fourth privilege |
The fourth privilege's second mill was located at present day Stone Mill Drive.
| Year | Owner | Manager | Product | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~1787[30][31] | Ruggles Whiting | Wire | |||
| 1814[30][31] | Nails | ||||
| 1819[30] | George Bird | Paper | Bird already owned the first mill at the fourth privilege |
Fourth privilege
editThe fourth privilege was used for a variety of purposes in the 19th century, including copper cents, paper, cotton, wool, carpets, and handkerchiefs. In the 1780s another mill, connected by the same wheel, was constructed on the site to produce wire[30] for the new nation's nascent textile industry.[32] The first mill on this site burned in 1809, but was rebuilt with a new raceway and foundation.[30]
The second mill began producing nails in 1814, and five years later its owner, Ruggles Whiting of Boston, sold it to the owner of the first mill, George Bird, who began using the whole site to manufacture paper.[30] In 1823 it switched to cotton, using the machinery of the former Norfolk Cotton Company. In 1835 a new stone mill was erected.[13] It stands today, and was converted into a condominium complex in 1986–87.[26] Unlike the other mills, which were constructed in a strictly utilitarian style, this factory boasted a date stone reading "1835" and a dome-roofed cupola over the mill bell.[32] Together they stood as a testament to the primacy of the mills in the neighborhood.[32][10]
The mill at the fourth privilege, under the ownership of Bussey and with his agent, George H. Kuhn, was among the first to install water-powered broad looms.[10] The looms enabled raw wool to enter the mills, be spun into thread, and then weaved into finished fabric, all under a single roof.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Hurd 1884, p. 93.
- ^ Dedham Historical Society 2001, p. 39.
- ^ Worthington 1900, p. 11.
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- ^ Clarke 1903, p. 13.
- ^ a b Worthington 1900, p. 7.
- ^ Tritsch 1986, p. 14.
- ^ a b c Dedham Historical Society 2001, p. 38.
- ^ Tritsch 1986, p. 35.
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- ^ a b c d Hanson 1976, p. 195.
- ^ a b c Tritsch 1986, p. 13.
Works cited
edit- Clarke, Wm. Horatio (1903). Mid-Century Memories of Dedham. Dedham Historical Society.
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- Davison (1948). Davison's Textile Blue Book: United States and Canada. Vol. 84. Davison Publishing Company.
- Dedham Historical Society (2001). Images of America: Dedham. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-0944-0. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
- Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1884). History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. J. W. Lewis & Company. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
- Hanson, Robert Brand (1976). Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890. Dedham Historical Society.
- Tritsch, Electa Kane (1986). Building Dedham. Dedham Historical Society.
- Worthington, Erastus (1900). Historical sketch of Mother Brook, Dedham, Mass: compiled from various records and papers, showing the diversion of a portion of the Charles River into the Neponset River and the manufactures on the stream, from 1639 to 1900. Dedham, MA: C.G. Wheeler.
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