Mills and Industry

Daniel Wood’s Corn Mill

By Rick Church|2021-07-23T22:12:26+00:00July 23rd, 2021|Categories: 1751 - 1800, 1801 - 1850, 1851 - 1900, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

The outlet of Pleasant Pond (later Beed Pond and Silver Lake) was the site of three mills. The town’s first gristmill was established here in about 1771 by Daniel Wood of Upton, Massachusetts.

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Bryant Tannery

By Rick Church|2021-07-21T13:45:30+00:00July 21st, 2021|Categories: 1801 - 1850, Building Sites, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

Established by Francis S. Bryant shortly after their father, Amos, bought the property from the widow of Stephen Beard in 1805. Little remains of the vats and other hallmarks of a tannery today.

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Fulling Mill

By Rick Church|2021-06-24T18:46:01+00:00May 28th, 2021|Categories: 1751 - 1800, 1801 - 1850, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

C-4-17 Little remains at this site today but as flattened area north of the brook. Here in 1794, Thomas K. Breed built a fulling mill* with a shear. Fulling mils were used to treat woolen cloth woven on home looms to finish it.

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The Parmenter Mill

By Rick Church|2021-01-07T13:36:44+00:00January 2nd, 2021|Categories: 1801 - 1850, 1851 - 1900, 1901 - 1950, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

E-2-6 In 1856 Joel Bancroft sold 85 acres here to Appleton Parmenter. The site included a good mill site just downstream from the Bancroft sawmill. Parmenter built a saw and grist mill here. In 1864 he sold the [...]

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The Bancroft Mill

By Rick Church|2021-01-07T13:36:54+00:00January 2nd, 2021|Categories: 1801 - 1850, 1851 - 1900, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

E-2-5 As early as 1830 Joel Bancroft built a sawmill at the outlet of the Great Meadow. The elaborate foundation including a dry-stone arch and mill raceways can still be seen today. In the late 1850’s the mill [...]

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Fulling Mill

By Rick Church|2021-05-28T22:44:49+00:00December 30th, 2020|Categories: 1751 - 1800, 1801 - 1850, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

D-4-13 Fulling Mill: Little remains at this site today but as flattened area north of the brook. Here in 1794, Thomas K. Breed built a fulling mill* with a shear. Fulling mils were used to treat woolen cloth [...]

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Thomas Knowles Breed, Fuller:

By Rick Church|2020-12-29T17:17:48+00:00December 29th, 2020|Categories: 1751 - 1800, 1801 - 1850, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

D-4-3: Thomas was the 3rd son of Nathaniel and Ann Breed born in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1761. He came to Monadnock #6 with his parents in 1768. After leaving home, he established himself at D-3-11 where he may [...]

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Nelson Cotton and Woolen Company

By Rick Church|2021-01-05T16:33:59+00:00December 28th, 2020|Categories: 1751 - 1800, 1801 - 1850, 1851 - 1900, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

C-5-10 The mill site is the lowest of three on the stream that empties Granite Lake. The broken grindstone near the mill’s tailrace is evidence of its early use for grinding grain into flour. Joseph Baker likely built [...]

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Shoe shop

By Rick Church|2021-01-05T15:55:40+00:00December 27th, 2020|Categories: 1801 - 1850, 1851 - 1900, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

C-4-10 The site of a shoe shop built as part of Stephen Harrington’s tannery works. Established prior to 1822 and continued as late as 1857.

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The Wilson Mill:

By Rick Church|2021-01-07T13:38:34+00:00December 11th, 2020|Categories: 1751 - 1800, 1801 - 1850, 1851 - 1900, Building Sites, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

D-4-22 Situated at the outlet of White Pond today is a very large stone dam, a ruined concrete gate and spillway and numerous sone piers that held the structures of the milks here from 1796 to the end [...]

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Center Pond House & Mill Development

By Rick Church|2021-01-07T13:41:39+00:00November 14th, 2020|Categories: 1751 - 1800, 1801 - 1850, Building Sites, Industry, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

Center Pond House & Mill Development Upper left: French Farm. To the right, Nelson Village. Breed Batchellor was Nelson’s first settler and its developer. In the early days, he owned [...]

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The Osgood Mine

By Rick Church|2021-01-07T13:57:30+00:00October 17th, 2020|Categories: 1801 - 1850, 1851 - 1900, Building Sites, Industry, Life in Nelson, Maps, Mills and Mining, NA, Rick Church, The Land and Its Settlement|

D-4-9 The Osgood graphite veins were discovered in 1848 and property owner Horatio Osgood leased them to Moses Carelton of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Two years later, Calelton sublet them to J. and J. Seabury, a New York mining company; [...]

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