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In 1831 the land, owned by Luke Brown, had been purchased for $520 by William E. and Thomas A. Brayton. In 1832 a stone mill 40 x 74 feet, three stories high, with an attic was constructed allowing for larger print cloths, 52 by 52 feet to be manufactured on twenty looms under the name of T.A. Brayton & Co.. The factory village that grew around the mill became known as Braytonville. Sanford Blackinton, one of North Adams' leading mill owners, and Daniel Dewey, the prime mover in forming the North Adams Woolen Company, constructed the replacement [[Norad Mill]] in 1863. The village was briefly named Deweyville, after Daniel Dewey, in 1863 until his retirement in 1868.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/historyofnorthad00spearich/page/80 History of North Adams]</ref> |
In 1831 the land, owned by Luke Brown, had been purchased for $520 by William E. and Thomas A. Brayton. In 1832 a stone mill 40 x 74 feet, three stories high, with an attic was constructed allowing for larger print cloths, 52 by 52 feet to be manufactured on twenty looms under the name of T.A. Brayton & Co.. The factory village that grew around the mill became known as Braytonville. Sanford Blackinton, one of North Adams' leading mill owners, and Daniel Dewey, the prime mover in forming the North Adams Woolen Company, constructed the replacement [[Norad Mill]] in 1863. The village was briefly named Deweyville, after Daniel Dewey, in 1863 until his retirement in 1868.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/historyofnorthad00spearich/page/80 History of North Adams]</ref> |
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The original village included Alton Place, Avon and West Main Streets on which 17 homes were demolished in 1996 due to the vaporizing of a toxic trichloroethylene (TCE) plume of groundwater seeping west from the Brown Street site<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzqahyk01bY&feature=youtu.be TCE Contamination in North Adams]</ref>. Immediately to the |
The original village included Alton Place, Avon and West Main Streets on which 17 homes were demolished in 1996 due to the vaporizing of a toxic trichloroethylene (TCE) plume of groundwater seeping west from the Brown Street site<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzqahyk01bY&feature=youtu.be TCE Contamination in North Adams]</ref>. Immediately to the south, [[Wells House (North Adams, Massachusetts)|Wells House]] is a historic house built about 1840 at 568 West Main Street by Orson Wells, who first settled in North Adams in the 1810s and established an acid production facility nearby. The area also includes [[Sykes House]] built in 1890 at 521 West Main Street to the east. |
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Revision as of 03:49, 18 January 2019
Braytonville is a former factory village, one mile west of downtown North Adams that grew around a stone mill, constructed in 1832. The area is now part of the West End of North Adams and includes Brayton Elementary, Brayton Park and Fort Massachusetts.
In 1831 the land, owned by Luke Brown, had been purchased for $520 by William E. and Thomas A. Brayton. In 1832 a stone mill 40 x 74 feet, three stories high, with an attic was constructed allowing for larger print cloths, 52 by 52 feet to be manufactured on twenty looms under the name of T.A. Brayton & Co.. The factory village that grew around the mill became known as Braytonville. Sanford Blackinton, one of North Adams' leading mill owners, and Daniel Dewey, the prime mover in forming the North Adams Woolen Company, constructed the replacement Norad Mill in 1863. The village was briefly named Deweyville, after Daniel Dewey, in 1863 until his retirement in 1868.[1]
The original village included Alton Place, Avon and West Main Streets on which 17 homes were demolished in 1996 due to the vaporizing of a toxic trichloroethylene (TCE) plume of groundwater seeping west from the Brown Street site[2]. Immediately to the south, Wells House is a historic house built about 1840 at 568 West Main Street by Orson Wells, who first settled in North Adams in the 1810s and established an acid production facility nearby. The area also includes Sykes House built in 1890 at 521 West Main Street to the east.