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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4DW9
Author : Price and Lee Company, inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Easthampton (Mass.)
ISBN : OCLC:905266883
Author : Marvin J. Ward, Ph.D.
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781637640418
Easthampton Massachusetts’ Home-Grown Industries: Their Origins, Growth, Legacies, and Remains By: Marvin J. Ward, Ph.D. Easthampton Massachusetts’ Home-Grown Industries documents the history of all the industries, several of them interconnected, that were established in the Town of Easthampton at the start of the Industrial Revolution in Western Massachusetts, beginning, in c. 1824, with a piece-work enterprise operated from a home with an office and small warehouse, proceeding, in 1834, to an industrial manufacture, initially in an existing factory in another town, and moving into the first factory being built in the town in 1847-1848. Most were started by Samuel Williston, who had different partners, although many of those had their hands in more than one, and some of them took over one or another of them. All of them were situated on property that Williston owned, having inherited it from his father, Payson, the first minister to settle in it, who bought a large tract of “18 or 19 acres” of land in 1790. It tracks them through to his death in 1874, and that of his wife, Emily (née Graves, from nearby Williamsburg; her family’s property is also tracked), founder (in 1881) of the town library, in 1885. They manufactured the first products of their type in the US in the case of the first three, and in this region for the others, some having international exports and reputations. Williston was also involved in many civic endeavors: he funded numerous initiatives, including a school, a church, the Town Hall building, and a cemetery, to name the major projects; he was not a tycoon who spent lavishly on himself. The story unfolds, Sherlock Holmes-style, with documented facts, unraveling some mysteries, and destroying some tales that are myths and/or apocryphal, commonly believed among today’s residents, some of which took root in early 20th century sources that are also, Sherlock Holmes-style, undermined. In the 20th century, other industries, many larger, moved there, all moving or expanding from their former locations, some reassembling their buildings that were disassembled there and brought along, all of these on the West side of the Lower Mill Pond, North of the location of the first ones, and alongside the railroad that ran beside the Pond (today a Rail Trail); they are not treated here. None of either exist today, but many of their buildings have been or are being repurposed, except for one that is part of the factory of an industry not entirely unrelated to the one for which it was built.
Author : Inc Price and Lee Company
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358355894
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Author : Massachusetts State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Libraries
ISBN : PRNC:32101073752923
Author : Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1546 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105116565669
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : MINN:31951D00120359R
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Libraries
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078881992
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1506 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281385
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015036824277
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049942824
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357516
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jon Orwant
Page : 2204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Elizabeth M. Sharpe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416572640
Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139 people dead and 740 homeless -- and a nation wondering how this terrible calamity had happened. In this compelling tale of a man-made disaster peopled with everyday heroes and arrogant scoundrels, Elizabeth Sharpe opens a rare window into industry and village life in nineteenth-century New England, a time when dam failures and other industrial accidents were widespread and laws favored factory owners rather than factory workers. In the Mill Valley, the townsfolk depended upon generally benevolent patriarchs who assured them that the dam was safe, when most people could see that it was not. The story of the Mill River flood is the story of those townsfolk: of George Cheney, the dam keeper whose repeated warnings about leaks in the dam had been ignored by the mill owners; of his wife, Elizabeth, who watched in disbelief as the dam burst open from the bottom; of Isabell Hayden, the mother who saw her young son swept away in the river's torrent; and of Fred Howard, a box maker who spent the days after the flood searching for bodies, burying friends, and waiting to see if the button factory he relied upon for his livelihood would be rebuilt. It is also the story of the well-meaning but overconfident businessmen who built the dam: of Onslow Spelman, the manufacturer who dismissed the dam keeper's flood warning, irrationally insisting that the dam could not break; of Lucius Fenn and Joel Bassett, the engineer and contractor whose roles in the construction of the dam would be questioned during the public inquest into the causes of the flood; of William Skinner, the factory owner who struggled to decide whether or not to rebuild his silk factory in the village that bore his name; and of many others. The flood highlighted class divisions between worker and owner, as well as the disorganized state of professional engineering, then still in its infancy. As the flood exposed the dangers of allowing mill owners -- who were not trained engineers -- to design their own dam, legislation to regulate the building of reservoir dams in Massachusetts was enacted for the first time. Engineers, politicians, and business owners battled over control of the reform measures to prevent similar tragedies, yet saw them continually repeated. In the Shadow of the Dam is the story of an event that reshaped a society. Told through the eyes of villagers like Collins Graves, lauded as a hero for his desperate ride through the valley to warn people of the impending flood, and industrialists like Joel Hayden Jr., entrusted with the responsibility of disaster relief despite his culpability in failing to maintain the leaking dam, In the Shadow of the Dam is a history of our uneasy relationship with industrial progress and a riveting narrative of a tragic disaster in small-town Massachusetts.
Author : Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068204265