Machinery.

ID: 657 ~ Source: Courtesy of Freel Library, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
This file appears in: Blackinton Mill
Machinery.

A child works at resupplying the loom.

This file appears in: Blackinton Mill

By Ryan O'Keefe
In March 1822 Sanford Blackinton, Rufus Wells, and Joseph L. White built a small two story factory that stood near the road of the presentday mill.  The mill cost roughly eight hundred dollars and was fitted with second hand machinery from an old…