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Springdale Mill Timeline<\/h2>\n

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[one_fourth]1864-1865[\/one_fourth]An 85 Foot Stone Dam Built Across Quinapoxet River at Site of Mill
[one_fourth]\u00a0[\/one_fourth](Later extended to 115 feet)
[one_fourth]1865 (est.)[\/one_fourth]Springdale Mill Opened. A two-set wooden mill, it contained two sets of machinery, owned by J.L. Smith,\u00a0employing about 35).<\/p>

[one_fourth]1874[\/one_fourth]Stone Shoddy Mill Erected On Site
[one_fourth]1875[\/one_fourth]Springdale Mill Burned
[one_fourth]1875[\/one_fourth]Four-Set Stone Mill Built by J.G. Smith
[one_fourth]\u00a0[\/one_fourth](Built of granite quarried near the site)\u00a01879 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mill in Full Production.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(250,000 yards of fancy cassimeres produced)\u00a01881\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mass Central Railroad Completed Between Oakdale and Jefferson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Inaugural run December 19th. Railroad \u00a0chartered in 1879, and opened Boston to Hudson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 early in\u00a0 1881)\u00a01881 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Springdale RR Station Opened @ Mile 43.0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Fare to Boston: $1.40, to Quinapoxet: 15\u00a2, to \"Jefferson's\": 25\u00a2)\u00a01883 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Massachusetts Central Railroad becomes the Central Massachusetts Railroad\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Train service halted on May 16 due to financial difficulties)\u00a01885 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Train Service Resumed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Line leased to Boston and Lowell)\u00a01887\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Railroad Line Becomes the Central Mass Division of the Boston & Lowell RR\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (and several years later, became part of the Boston and Maine.)\u00a01892 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glen Woolen Mill Opened\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Mill is bought and renovated by James Dorr to manufacture satinets)\u00a01892 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Springdale RR Station @ Mile 43.00 Discontinued (1892 or earlier)\u00a01899 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Canada Mill Closed (Shoddy Mill located upstream near River Street)\u00a01902\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Agreement to route Central Mass RR around the soon-to-be-built Wachusett Reservoir\u00a01905 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mill Site Acquired By Department of Conservation and Recreation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Acquired on November 25 for $80,000. Site included mill,\u00a0picker house, stock house, two barns, a \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0four-tenement house, and four two-tenement houses)\u00a01906 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mill Operations Cease\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Dam broken, and buildings razed)\u00a01938\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Railroad Abandoned\u00a02000 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mill and Village Historic Reclamation Project Begun (Project conducted under the auspices of the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Metropolitan \u00a0District Commission and Wachusett Greenways, and supervised by the Springdale Mill \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Historic Site Committee.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1049","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1049\/revisions\/2969"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wachusettgreenways.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}