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Henry Ford built a replica and fully working grist mill and a white non-denominational chapel, named after his mother, Mary, and mother-in-law, Martha. [citation needed] Less well known is Ford's attempt to create a reservoir for the Wayside Inn. Across US Rte. 20 and now secluded in a wooded area behind private homes is a 30 ft. high stone dam.
[12] [13] However, Giuseppi Cavicchio's refusal to sell his water rights scuttled Henry Ford's plans to build an auto parts factory at the site of Charles O. Parmenter's mill in South Sudbury. [14] In August 1925, a Sudbury farm was the scene of a riot between local members of the Ku Klux Klan and Irish-American youths from the area
The Wayside Inn is a historic inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, included on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the listed Wayside Inn Historic District. [1] It became an inn called Howe's Tavern in 1716, making it one of the oldest continuously operating inns in the United States. [2]
American Powder Mills (1883–1929) was a Massachusetts gunpowder manufacturing complex on the Assabet River.It expanded to include forty buildings along both sides of the river in the towns of Acton, Concord, Maynard, and Sudbury.
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The Sudbury Center Historic District is a historic district on Concord and Old Sudbury Roads in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] In 1976, it included 80 buildings over 193.6 acres (0.783 km 2 ).
The Assabet Woolen Mill was originally a textile factory complex founded by Amory Maynard in 1847 near the Assabet River in the northern part of what was then Sudbury, Massachusetts. The area became the Town of Maynard in 1871. [1] [2] The business went bankrupt in 1898, but reopened in 1899 as part of the American Woolen Company, which ...
State approval was granted April 19, 1871. In return, the new town paid Sudbury and Stow about $23,600 and $8,000 respectively. Sudbury received more money because more land came from Sudbury and Sudbury owned shares in the railroad, and the wool mill and paper mill were located in Sudbury.