South Lancaster mill site
Item Information
- Title:
- South Lancaster mill site
- Description:
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On this site (near present-day Mill Street) on the south branch of the Nashua River, Sawyer and Wilder, c. 1805, first built a dam, a sawmill, and a gristmill. Later, Samuel Carter operated a fulling mill for the processing of wool for clothing nearby. Through the years, ownerships and functions changed several times. Pictured here is the Sawyer-Carter Grist Mill as it appeared c. 1900. On the site for 50 years, the building burned in a spectacular blaze on the night of June 21, 1906.
- Date:
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[ca. 1900]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Lancaster Historical Society
- Collection (local):
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Photo Archives of the Lancaster (MA) Historical Society
- Subjects:
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Flour & meal industry
Rivers
Water mills
- Places:
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MassachusettsNashua River
MassachusettsWorcester (county)Lancaster
- Extent:
- 1 photograph
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/02871k12d
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