Remains of the Holbrook Mill

Remains of the Holbrook Mill

West Boylston (Mass.) - History; Gristmills - Massachusetts


- West Boylston

View from across the South Branch of the Nashua River


from the site of the remains of Holbrook Mill on the left bank looking


towards the Cowee Grist Mill on the right bank. The Holbrook Mill, owned


by Eli W. Holbrook, Oliver Eldridge, and Linus M. Harris, milled cotton


sheeting and employed fifty hands. This area of the town was called


Central Village. The image shows the Nashua flowing over the dam at


Cowee's Mill and under Holbrook Street and the Cowee Bridge. The land and


buildings in the foreground have been cleared to make way for the


construction of the Wachusett Reservoir. Circa 1895-1905.

Sargent, Edgar E.

C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/

Is part of the Sargent collection of photographs and hand-drawn maps


detailing the buildings surrounding the center of West Boylston during


the period of 1895-1905. Presented to the Beaman Memorial Library, West Boylston, Mass. http://www.beamanlibrary.org/ on August 27, 1963 by


Miss Martha A. Sargent.

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1895-1905