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A picture of the American Woolen Co. Mills further up and off from Thompson Street. This picture is of Mill Buildings #1, and # 5, and the field that is now Digital parking lot.

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Plan of Land and Buildings of the Assabet Mills, Maynard, Massachusetts owned by the American Woolen Company.

Scale: 80 feet to 1 inch

Major highlights and property references include:

Mill Compex (with building numbers)
Mill Pond (Water…

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A stereograph showing Assabet Mills and the (then new) Walnut Street Bridge. The bridge was built in 1872, setting an approx date for the photograph. The photograph appears to have been taken from Thompson Street. The River Street Block and the…

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A picture taken behind the block at River Street of the Walnut Street Bridge (note: ball-type globes on street lights on bridge), back of billboards, and the twin smoke stacks of American Woolen Mills.

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A wooden slat with the following imprinted upon it: "American Woolen Co., Inc., Order No. 7263, Assabet Mills, Maynard, Mass".

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Postcard, in Finnish, sent from Annie Hnikan(?), Sudbury Rd., Concord to Mary Anderson, Maynard in 1920.

Second card is a duplicate in bettor condition.

Postmarked 1920-11-15
Scene ca 1910

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Originally Walnut St. was laid out in 1865 and ran from Main St. to Thompson St. and was on the south side of the Assabet River, but in 1862 it was relocated on the north side of the river from Main Street to Parker Street and an iron bridge built. …

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The Assabet River. (Believed to be taken near Summer Hill Glen.)

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The Assabet River. (Believed to be taken near Summer Hill Glen.)

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The Assabet River. (Believed to be taken near Summer Hill Glen.)

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The Assabet River seen after a thunder storm in July 1887. The view is of the river looking upstream toward the Ben Smith Bridge perhaps taken from the Mill Street Bridge.

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The Assabet River seen from the old railroad bed. Crow Island protrudes into the river on the left side of the picture.

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Swimming in the Assabet River behind 195 Main Street