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The top card is a westerly view from the Assabet River toward the Walnut Street Bridge.

The bottom card is an easterly view along the Mill Pond.

The view is from Summer Hill:
Far right, white building is St. Bridget's Church, a bit to left is the Main St. School, brick. Further to the left are the six white houses on Front Street and of course the Mill with a single chimney (in 1916 a second…

Photograph of the Mill and "canal" adjacent to Walnut Street (taken from the Main Street bridge) taken in 1915. Note the alternate or mis-spelling of Assabet ("Assabett") on the photograph. Also this is technically not the canal, but the…

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

Photograph of Maynard, the mill complex, and St. Bridget's Church taken from Summer Hill in 1905.

Photograph of the mill complex at night (with reflection in the mill pond) taken in 1971 when Digital Equipment Corporation was running at "top speed".

A black and white photo of "Building 1 Illuminated" was Yu Hata's prize winning entry in Digital's Photo contest and was taken by a Pentax camera, set for a 2 second exposure at 5.6f stop.

This picture was taken from Paper Mill Bridge. The Falls are in the forefront. The large building at the right is the Music Hall.
The black and white version was published with only address allowed on back.

l to r
Front: G. Soules, J. White, F. OBrien, W. Johnston, H. Lyons, J. Moynihan
Back: H. Morgan, R. Marsden, T. Marsden, W. Morrill, M. Vodoklys, W. Oates

In 1924 the American Woolen Company had a league comprised of several of the mill teams.…

A photo of the Assabet Mills, Building #1, in 1918.

A picture of the Assabet Mills swimming hole just right of the tree cluster off Thompson Street and Main Street, across the pond. The building is numbered 21.

The carpet was likely produced at the American Woolen Company Assabet Mill.

Photos of exterior of Assabet Mills taken by Robert McGarry

Photo on right shown as seen without 3D glasses.

A photo of the Assabet Mills taken from Beacon Street.
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