Watson, Newell & Company Factory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 67 Mechanic St., Attleboro
When was it listed? November 2020
Category. building
National Register reference number. 100005761 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Watson, Newell & Company Factory between 2015 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
21 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
12 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
9 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 June 2015	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Watson, Newell & Company Factory: 13 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, PGE, Silver. 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
Glines & Rhodes Refin.--Plainville	Gold, PGE, Silver	Past Producer
Adamsdale Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Allen R. Nelson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Boro Sand and Stone Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Boro Sand and Stone, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Courtois Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Del Soullier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Del Soullier and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Dorrance Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gary Nelson Excavating Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Maps showing this location

18 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.

1887 USGS Providence quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Providence quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Providence quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1921 USGS Providence quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Attleboro quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Providence quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Attleboro quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Attleboro quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Attleboro quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Attleboro quadrangle1:25000
1979 USGS Providence quadrangle1:50000
1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Attleboro quadrangle1:25000 - 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
Blackinton Houses and Park	0.4 miles	1979
First Parsonage for Second East Parish Church	0.4 miles	1980
East Attleborough Academy	0.4 miles	1985
Northbound and Southbound Stations	0.4 miles	1989
Northbound and Southbound Stations	0.5 miles	1989
Robinson Building	0.5 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005761 in Record Group 79.
Bristol County	All 389 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.