Big Wheels Kept on Turning: Arlington's Mill Brook Valley
February 5, 2009
Ed Gordon president, New England Victorian Society

Ed Gordon tells the story of how a visionary preservationist prevented the destruction of the Scwamb brothers' mill.

In 1864, Charles and Frederick Schwamb, brothers from Germany's Rhineland, commenced the manufacture of oval and circular frames. Fast forwarding to 1969, the fourth and fifth generations of Schwambs were about to shut down their business when Patricia C. Fitzmaurice stepped in to save the three buildings from demolition. Gordon places the Schwamb brothers' mill within the context of the industrial history of Arlington's Mill Brook Valley - from the founding of Cook's Mill in 1637 through the rise of mills in the 19th century - that produced a variety of products, including two-man saws, edge tools, piano cases, and ornamental wood work, as well as picture frames.

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Boston | industrial history | local history | Mill Brook Valley | wood products | Non-Fiction | Personal Finances
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