Mills, Princeton, MA - Buck's Mill chair factory, early 1900s

Mills, Princeton, MA - Buck's Mill chair factory, early 1900s

Princeton (Mass.)--History--Pictorial works; Buck's Mill; Furniture industry--Massachusetts--Princeton; Chair industry--Massachusetts--Princeton

Photograph of Buck's Mill chair factory in Princeton, Massachusetts in the winter. In 1880, Thurston and Eugene R. Buck purchased the Ephraim Wilder chair manufacturing mill on Sterling Road near the Princeton - Sterling line. In 1914, two 65 horse power boilers were added. The mill continued to operate until the late 1940s.

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1900-1910?

Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org housed in the Princeton Public Library, http://www.princetonpubliclibrary.org Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts.

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