Excerpt from The Industries of Claremont, New Hampshire, Past and Present And, with the kind reader's leave, I will go on and contrast these small beginnings with what is now being done with this 130 feet of water-fall through this little hamlet of '32, - now, by the use of its water-power, sus taining a population, probably, tenfold the number it did in 1832, or could now sustain, but for the use of its Su gar River element. Following the above order, in a more minute historical, descriptive View of the several present ...
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Excerpt from The Industries of Claremont, New Hampshire, Past and Present And, with the kind reader's leave, I will go on and contrast these small beginnings with what is now being done with this 130 feet of water-fall through this little hamlet of '32, - now, by the use of its water-power, sus taining a population, probably, tenfold the number it did in 1832, or could now sustain, but for the use of its Su gar River element. Following the above order, in a more minute historical, descriptive View of the several present and former mill sites in the village proper of Claremont - the earliest date at which I find there had been any use made of that at fall N o. 1, north side of the river, was about the year 1800, when Stephen Dexter erected a small building there, and he and his brother, Col. David Dexter, carried on in it a Scythe-making concern, till about 1824. They also owned grist, saw and oil mills, located on and near where the Monadnock Mills Co.'s sawmill now stands, which were run by water drawn from a low dam then standing about midway between dams Nos. 1 and 2. On the decease of Col. Dexter, in 1830, his son-in-law, Moses Wheeler, (in succeeded the Messrs. Dexter in the several branches of business above stated, (except the scythe factory) as sole proprietor, and carried them on till his decease. In 1858. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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