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  • Collection: Postcards

Black & White and Colorized view of St. Bridget's Cemetery around 1900.

Ralph Prescott, driver

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Although described as a canal, the water is actually the Assabet River.
The building left rear is a sawmill.

The Ben Smith Dam was built in 1847 by Amory Maynard to divert water into a dug out canal to fill Mill Pond. The water was used to run the wheels in the mill, wash the wool and for a sprinkler system.

Brooks St. on the left, Maple St. on the right.

Site of the Theodore Roosevelt School, Maynard Public Library.
Three slightly different views including postcard with crossed out misname, Mason.
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