Enoch Jewett built a dam across the Broughton Meadow Brook.
Warner Silk Mill Canal became the Leonard Silk Canal from 1889 onward.
William Skinner had built and lived in the 584 Elm Street home at the SE corner of Federal, South Main, Nonotuck, and Elm Streets. He lived there from 1850 to 1859.
not on the 1902 map since in the late 1890s a fire destroyed the mill
The Northampton Paper Mill made the canal in 1836. Northampton Paper Mill Company Raceway is near the junction of Riverside Drive and Federal Street north of the Mill River.
It started as the William Butler Paper Mill. Then it became the Northampton Paper Company. Then the William Clark Mill. Vernon Paper Mill was later called the E E Wood Cutlery Works and then the Roger’s Cutlery. This was located in Paper Mill Village. The 1860 mill is at 122 Federal Street.
The William Butler Boarding House on 109 to 115 Milton Street is from the 1820s. The Northampton Paper Mill Superintendent’s House at 89 Federal is from the 1830s.
| mill | starts | ends |
| Butler Paper Mill | 1786 | 1835 |
| Northampton Paper Mill | 1835 | 1843 |
| Clark Paper Mill | 1843 | 1869 |
| Vernon Paper Mill | 1869 | 1886 |
| Northampton Paper Mill | 1886 | 1889 |
| EE Wood Cutlery | 1889 | |
| Roger’s Cutlery |
Sanborn 1884 map as the Vernon
Sanborn 1889 map as the Wood
Sanborn 1895 map as the Wood
Sanborn 1902 map as the Rogers
Sanborn 1910 map as the Rogers
Sanborn 1915 map as the Rogers
Lamb Wire Canal
Horace Lamb had his wire mill here. It was a maker of broom and brushes with wire bristles. FINDAGRAVE
from 1910 the Smith’s Grist Mill takes over
Vernon Paper Canal would become Wood Cutlery Canal in the mid-1880s and then becomes from 1910 the Roger’s Cutlery Works Canal
Highland Park Community House
The 1923 fire was a trigger for the Highland Park Community House to leave the schoolhouse and find better quarters. They might have continued to meet at the Mount Tom Golf Clubhouse but I am not sure.
Clement Mill formed in 1882 out of the International Screw.
The Clement Street Bridge from 1894 is nearby. EXTERNAL LINK
The Clement Cutlery Works was a high level cutlery mill.
Northampton Cutlery Canal
The history of the mill area can be found at this EXTERNAL LINK. The Northampton Cutlery Canal ran from 1871 to 1987. Worker homes are at Riverside Drive and Lexington Avenue. The information from the table below is from the Macris database. Page 5 of the NTH421 from this database has a nice schematic of the evolution of the building. Bay State Hardware Company Worker Housing is nearby on Riverside Drive.
| mill | starts | ends | |
| Northampton Paper Mills | 1836 | 1848 | |
| Hampshire Flax and Hemp | 1848 | 1850 | |
| Bay State Tool Manufacturing | 1854 | 1858 | |
| Bay State Hardware Company | 1858 | 1870 | |
| Riverside Cutlery Company | 1870 | ||
| Northampton Cutlery Canal | 1871 | 1987 | |
Sanborn map analysis
