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Valley Mill, Spencer

A mill in Spencer, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1887 and 1906.

The line reading Valley Mill in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Valley Millthe scanned index
1906Valley Millthe scanned index

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 2 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

When Nathaniel Eldridge left the concern of Silas Eldridge & Co., in 1845, he went to what is now called " Westville," made a water privilege, and built a mill for the manufacture of satinet warps. He continued in this mill until 1854, at which time he was obliged to close up his affairs. This property, after remaining idle for some time, was purcha.sed by W. G. Fay, G. B, Dewing and John Gilman, of East Brookfield, and this company manufactured denims and balmoral skirts for a season, when Mr. Gilman bought the interests of Fay and Dewing, changing the works to denims and batting. In 1871 he sold the mill and privilege to Upbam & Stanley, and they changed the machinery for the manufacture of satinets. This relation between these parties remained until Mr. Upham's death.

Read the chapter on Spencer Town.

Named in the same survey

13 establishments

The surveyors walked Worcester County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Champion Mills in the 1887 atlasChampion Millsmill1887
The index line reading Calvin Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Massasoit Hotel in the 1887 atlasMassasoit Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1887 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlasRoman Catholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1887 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1906 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1906
The index line reading Hotel Waldo in the 1906 atlasHotel Waldohotel1906

Other mills in the atlases

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Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Worcester County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Spencer, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.