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Canoe River Mill, Norton

Canoe River Mill, Norton, Bristol County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,3-NORT.V,1-, with 1 photograph and a 184-word written history.

From the record

“The mill complex on the Canoe River was in continuous use from the time of its construction about until the mid-twentieth century.”

Written record, HAER MASS,3-NORT.V,1- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,3-NORT.V,1- · the record runs 184 words · one of 110 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Canoe River Mill, Norton, Bristol County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

117 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,3-NORT.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The mill complex on the Canoe River was in continuous use from the time of its construction about until the mid-twentieth century. Originally established as a saw- mill, a grist mill was added within the same structure soon after, reportedly at the eastern end of the building. In the Norton Cotton Mill Company assumed control of the saw and grist mills, and constructed a cotton mill powered by water from the mill pond. The complex was rebuilt on the original fieldstone foundation, and enlarged sometime after The gristmill declined on the late n-ineteenth century, but the sawmill continued operations until the middle of the twentieth century. The complex except its foundations and damrn, was destroyed in the

In context

Norton, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Bristol County, Massachusetts 294 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Norton

6 records

The federal surveyors worked through Norton building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Reverend Joseph Avery House, photograph filed with the federal surveyReverend Joseph Avery HouseHABS MASS,3-NORT,1-67 words
Norton Cotton Mill House, photograph filed with the federal surveyNorton Cotton Mill HouseHABS MASS,3-NORT,5-42 words
Reverend Pitt Clark House, photograph filed with the federal surveyReverend Pitt Clark HouseHABS MASS,3-NORT,2-37 words
Jonathan Newcomb House, photograph filed with the federal surveyJonathan Newcomb HouseHABS MASS,3-NORT,3-37 words
Norton Cotton Mill House, photograph filed with the federal surveyNorton Cotton Mill HouseHABS MASS,3-NORT,6-36 words
Milestones T & U, photograph filed with the federal surveyMilestones T & UHABS MASS,3-NORT,4-30 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,3-NORT.V,1-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.