Wood Worsted Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. S Union and Merrimack St, Lawrence
When was it listed? August 2010
Category. district
National Register reference number. 10000539 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

84 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Wood Worsted Mill between 2015 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Smoking	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	NORTH ANDOVER
8 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAWERANCE
8 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAWERANCE
8 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAWERANCE
5 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	METHUEN

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wood Worsted Mill: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Wittemore Perlite Plant	Perlite	Plant
Rocco Zambino and Sons, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand & Gravel Operation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Torromeo Trucking Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Torromeo Trucking Co., Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1886 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1918 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:25000
1966 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:25000
1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
American Woolen Company Townhouses	0.3 miles	2012
Essex Company Offices and Yard	0.3 miles	1979
North Canal Historic District	0.4 miles	1984
North Canal Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.4 miles	2009
North Canal	0.4 miles	1975
Mechanics Block Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.5 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000539 in Record Group 79.
Essex County	All 480 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.