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Photograph of Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room
Photograph by HABS government photographer Jack E. Boucher, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. Off Main St., Dalton
  • When was it listed? July 1983
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 83004376 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

96 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room between 2015 and 2018, burning about 64 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
Debris and open burning55
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2016Other causesunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 July 2016Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Asbestos. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hinsdale PitAsbestosProducer
Berkshire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cheshire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cheshire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dalton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dalton Pit /Genrl Sand & StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dalton PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Donovan Blacktop Service IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
General Sand and Stone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hutchinson Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

21 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Cranesville Historic District0.3 miles2005
Main Street Cemetery0.4 miles2000
Dalton Grange Hall No. 230.6 miles1983
Fairview Cemetery0.6 miles2000
Fitch-Hoose House0.8 miles2010
East Main Street Cemetery1.4 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83004376 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkshire CountyAll 183 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.