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The Ironworks in Middleton, Massachusetts

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Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

Date

1959

GUSN

GUSN-169936

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Description

Middleton is a small town is Massachusetts that was set off from four other neighboring towns as a parish in 1727. This small town was the site of an early and long-lived industry, as it was the home to an ironworks, with the business beginning in 1708. Lura Woodside Watkins takes a look at the town and its early industry.

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Additional Identification Number

Article ID 385

Collection Code

SC001

Collection Name

Old-Time New England

Reference Code

SC001.1959.049.175.002

Abstract

Middleton is a small town is Massachusetts that was set off from four other neighboring towns as a parish in 1727. This small town was the site of an early and long-lived industry, as it was the home to an ironworks, with the business beginning in 1708. Lura Woodside Watkins takes a look at the town and its early industry.

Date Notes

Volume 49, Number 175 (Winter, 1959)

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Record Details

Originator

Lura Woodside Watkins (Author)

Publications Referencing This Collection

(1959). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

Description Level

Item

Place of Publication

Boston, Mass.

Publisher

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

Publisher Series

Old Time New England

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