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