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LEGEND

0 Hezektah Tomblin
1720's
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li Existing Church ~ Pa.rlly Original House

0 School site Existing House

Existing School m Marlborough Cow Common

0 Mill Site {:; Other Sites ol Interest

Some roads and natural features hove not been included on the I orge
mop. Houses shown were dwellings in the "North Precinct" of West bar~
rooc
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Northborough Historical Society's collection.
 WOODSIDE WAS FAMOUS FOR ITS WOOLEN MILLS AND DAVIS'

COTTON FACTORY OF 1814. THE AREA WAS ALSO IMPORTANT

IN THE 1820'S AMORY BARNARD'S GRISTMILL EMPLOYED A CANAL SYSTEM TO BRING FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BRICKS WHEN GOODRICH HADAYARD

WATER FROM THE ASSABET TO HIS MILL POND, IN 1832 ISAAC DAVIS II SET UP A THERE IN THE 1890'S. THE BRICK HOUSE AT 238 HUDSON

COTTON FACTORY AND USED THAT SAME CANAL SYSTEM, THE THREE BRICK HOUSES ON STREET WAS A SALES MODEL FOR THIS INDUSTRY,

THE SITE WERE BUILT BY SAMUEL WoOD II I, AND ONE OF THESE WAS DAVIS' HOME, THE CANDLE FACTORY OFF WHITNEY STREET MARKS THE SITES OF SEVERAL EARLY Ml LLS.

FoR A SHORT WHILE THIS AREA WAS CALLED DAVISVILLE, BUT WAS LATER NAMED IN 1817 HOLBROOK HAD A GRISTMILL AND BLACKSMITH SHOP HERE. IN THE LATE 1800'S

CHAPINVILLE FOR CALEB T.CHAPIN WHO BOUGHT AND DEVELOPED THE AREA IN 1864. THE 'TOAD MILL' 1
SOCALLEO BECAUSE OF ITS APPEARANCE, WAS LOCATED HERE,

THE OLD POST OFFICE COUNTRY STORE IS NOW A RESIDENCE AT 317 HUDSON STREET,

ASSABETVILLE

GIBSON MILL

LITTLE KNOWN SITES EARLY MILESTONE

IN NORTHBOROUGH

THERE ARE MANY PLACES THAT HAVE CON

TRI BUTEO Dl RECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO

TH~ GROWTH OF NORTHBOROUGH. THE LOG~

TIONS AND THE! R SIGNIFICANCE HAVE BE

EN FORGOTTEN.

ONE SUCH 51 TE IS THAT OF NATHANIEL

OAKS' HOME AT 58 WHITNEY STREET WHICH

WAS LOCATED HERE AS EARLY AS 1694. THE AREA AT THE CORNER OF MAIN AND R1 VER STREETS WAS CALLED ASSABETVILLE,

PETER WHITNEY THE TOWN'S SECOND MIN NEAR 2 WHITNEY STREET IS A SMALL POND WHICH WAS DAMMED BY DENNA IN THE 1860'S, IT WAS THE LOCATION OF MANY SHOPS. SAMUEL WOOD BUILT A FUL

ISTER BUILT HIS HOME ON THIS SITE IN EAGER FOR A WHEELWRIGHT SHOP IN 1831. ABOUT 1850 SAMUEL G1 BSON LING MILL THERE IN 1751, AND THE COBB I RON WORKS WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE

1780. BUILT A COMB FACTORY HERE, AND LATER SHOPS PRODUCED CLOTH AND STREET. IN 1800 GROUT ERRECTEO A NAILING WORKS AND A CARDING FACTORY THERE,
PARTS FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, A LOOMS WORKS ,MACHINERY SHOP,WESSON'S RIFLE FACTORY AND BLAIR's LAMP

BUSH'S COMB FACTORY AN D CASH REG I S T E R SH 0 P S WE R E AL S 0 0N THI S S I TE , I N THE 18 90 ' S BL A I R ' S CAM

ERA FACTORY . AS LOCATED UPSTREAM, TODAY ALUMINUM CITY IS LOCATED HERE,

NEAR 137 EAST MAIN STREET AN EARLY MILE
AT THE LOCATION OF MACHINERY ELECTRI
STONE 1 0N .THE NOR;~TH SIDE OF THE ROAD,IN
FICATION,INC.,W. T, BUSH BUILT A COMB

FACTORY IN THE EARLY 1800' S.LATER SHOPS

DICATES THE DISTANCE TO BoSTON. HOLLOWAY MILLS
ON THIS SITE HAVE PRODUCED PIANO KEYS,
HOLBROOK SAWMILL
FURN I TURE 1 HARNESS 1 BUTTONS., WOOL EN CLOTH,

AND NYLON. BARTLETT MILL NORTHBOROUGH SEMINARY

IN 1803 JOTHAN BARTLETT PURCHASED LAND

THE COW COMMON ON BUMMET BROOK WHERE HE BUILT A SAW

MILL, THIS SITE IS LOCATED OFF THE TURN

PIKE ON OLD BELMONT STREET.

FROM 1662 TO 1706 THE AREA EAST 0 F THE

POST ROAD BETWEEN 368 AND 484 MAIN ST.,

WAS THE COW COMMON OF 'MARLBOROW PLANTA MUNROE'S GRISTMILL

CION', TODAY COWS STILL GRAZE IN THE LUSH

MEADOWS. NEAR HERE WERE THE HOWE BRICK MILL STREET MARKS THE SITE OF JOHN

YARDS WHICH PRODUCED BRICKS FOR THE TOWN (,1ARTYN'S GRISTMILL WHICH WAS DEEDED

HALL, ACROSS THE COMMON IS THE KNOLL TO HIS SON EDWARD IN 1781. THE ES

WHERE MARY GoODNOW WAS SCALPED AND BURl ED TATE WAS SOLD TO ABRAHAM AND BENJAM

IN 1707. GREAT MEADOW,.OPPOSITE THE OLD IN MUNROE IN 1792. THE MILL WAS TORN

p0 ST 0 F F I CE I N CH AP I N VI L L E WAS PART 0 F DOWN IN THE 1950'S,

ACCORDING TO PETER WHITNEY THERE WERE TWO
THE Cow COMMON. IN 1780 A PRIVATE SCHOOL WAS BUILT AT THE MILLS ON COLD HARBOR BROOK IN 1793.0NE OF
JUNCTION OF CHURCH AND PLEASANT STREETS. THEM WAS LOCATED AT 363 CRAWFORD STREET ,
AROUND 1790 THE BUILDING WAS MOVED TO ITS THE OTHER NEAR 356. THE HOLLOWAYS LOCATED
NORTHBOROUGH MASTODON PRESENT LOCATION AT 9 RICE AVENUE. JOHN HERE IN 1711, FOLLOWED BY STEPHEN WILLI/MS
MINOT RICE, LATER HEAD OF THE MATHEMATICS WHO RAN fHt: MILLS, HE LATER BUILT A 'TUB
ON ROUTE 20 NEAR THE SHREWSBURY LINE THE RE DEPARTMENT OF THE U, S. NAVAL ACADEMY, WAS MILL' HERE WITH A WOO.DEN TURBINE AT THE UP
MAINS OF A MASTODON WERE UNCOVERED IN 1884. BORN THERE IN 1831. AFTER A Fl RE PROF. RICE PER SITE, FACTORIES PRODUCING RUBBER,SHIN IN THE VICINITY OF 44 WHITNEY STREET, JOHN BRIGHAM BUILT HIS SAWMILL ABOUT
SOME OF THE TEETH AND BONE FRAGMENTS CAN BE REBUILT THE HOUSE AS IT APPEARS TODAY;ONLY GLES, BOXES AND PLASTER HAVE BEEN LOCATED 1672: TRADITION SAYS THAT IT WAS BURNED BY THE INDIANS, NATHANIEL OAKS El
SEEN IN THE WoRCESTER SCIENCE MUSEUM. THE ELL IS PART.OF THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE. HERE AS WELL AS A Cl DE_~ Ml LL, THER BOUGHT OR BUILT A SAWMILL ON THIS LOCATION. PROBABLY THE MILL PICTURED,