Ye Old Cotton Mill, Built 1800
Cotton Mill (Halifax, Mass.)
Bosworth Brothers Box Factory (Halifax, Mass.)
Located on the corner of Furnace and Plymouth Streets, this building was built around 1800; water rights were initially acquired by Deacon Samuel Sturtevant in 1728; a furnace mill which closed in approximately 1845; then became a shoddy and cotton mill until about 1885. The building housed a box factory and later in the 1890's became Bosworth Brothers Box Factory for Brockton Shoe manufacturers. The mill's life ended about 1910. The water wheel remains and a lot of the mechanisms were taken to the mills that were being built in Hanson between 1972-1976 at Ginas Nukk,
Black-and-white photographs
Still Image
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Wood Homestead, Halifax, Massachusetts
Ebenezer Wood Homestead (Halifax, Mass.)
Wood homestead on Thompson Street. The site is on the opposite side of the street from where Ebenezer Wood manufactured gravestones. The business is no longer there.
Black-and-white photographs
Still Image
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John Thomson home site on Thompson Street, Halifax, Massachusetts
Thomson, John.
Halifax (Mass.) -- History
Thomson home site (Halifax, Mass.)
Dedication Proclamation for the original home site of Halifax's first settler John Thomson by the Halifax Bi-Centennial Committee. The Jabez Thompson site was dedicated in 1934
1974
Document
Text
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Power of Attorney, Halifax, Massachusetts
Morton, Nathaniel.
Carter, Benjamin.
Power of attorney -- United States
Halifax (Mass.) -- History
Dr. Nathaniel Morton, Power of Attorney for Benjamin Carter of Rhode Island
1808
Document
Text
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Business Directory, Halifax, Massachusetts
Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Halifax -- Directory
Your invitation to visit Halifax, Mass. The neighborly Town of Plymouth County.
1960
Halifax Industrial Development Commission
Pamphlets
Document
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1773 Deed. Halifax, Massachusetts
Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Plymouth County
Halifax (Mass.) -- History
Deed from Stephan Bryant, Yeoman to Barnabes Briggs, July 15, 1773 for a cost of 7 pounds. Signed by Stephan and Rebecca Bryant. Witnessed by Moly Bryant (x) and Gamiel Bryant. Purchased from Austin Bean[?] on April 20, 1770.
1770
Text
Document
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A Social Party: Halifax Town Hall, Halifax, Massachusetts, October 29 [1880s]
Social party -- Halifax (Mass.)
Town Hall (Halifax, Mass.)
A Social Party will be given at the Town Hall, Halifax, Wed. evening, Oct. 29. Under the management of C.E.H. & N.L.C., to which your company with ladies is solicited.
October 29,1880?
Holmes Band
Holmes, J. F.
Invitations
Text
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Kilroy's Christmas Trolley
Kilroy, James J.
Kilroy family.
Newspaper Clipping. "Kilroy's Christmas Trolley," by Richard Pritchett in Pictorial Living Colorado Magazine, December 12, 1975. Page 16. The Kilroy family lived in Halifax, Massachusetts
Pritchett, Richard
Pictorial Living Colorado Magazine
December 12, 1975.
Articles
Text
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1879 Map, Halifax, Massachusetts
Halifax (Mass.) -- Maps
Historical geography--Massachusetts--Maps.
1879 Map of Halifax, Massachusetts showing residences, roads, lake, ponds and rivers
1879
Maps
Cartographic
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1879 Map of Halifax, Massachusetts
Halifax (Mass.) -- Maps
Silver Lake (Halifax, Mass.)
Historical geography--Massachusetts--Maps.
Map of Halifax, Massachusetts 1879. On bottom of map shows dimension of Silver Lake measured in the ice. Frame (rope-design) was made by Leonard C. Washburn from mahogany and taken from the wreck of the side-wheeler (steamer) "Lady of the Lake" that went down 30 years before when it blew up. "Lady of the Lake" carried 100 passengers. Thirteen people were injured and three died when it blew up on June 28, 1878. The wood was two feet under water when it was reclaimed by Leonard Washburn and made into a china cabinet and other picture frames.
Washburn, Leonard
Maps
Cartographic
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