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Wamesit Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex

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76: 258:. As the Laflin brothers moved their gunpowder manufacturing operations elsewhere, Whipple moved to east in 1818 to manage a gunpowder mill built by Moses Hale on River Meadow Brook in East Chelmsford upstream of its confluence with the Concord River. River Meadow Brook became known as Hale's Brook. Whipple became Hale's partner after marrying Hale's daughter in 1820. Whipple undertook the construction of a canal along the Concord River to provide power for a number of mills he erected in the area, consulting with engineer 101: 62: 925: 937: 469: 914: 108: 83: 552: 1038: 860: 855: 850: 483: 548: 528: 523: 518: 488: 538: 508: 410: 543: 533: 513: 493: 882: 503: 498: 887: 835: 715: 669: 602: 765: 740: 700: 628: 597: 576: 845: 781: 750: 705: 690: 685: 1058: 840: 745: 735: 638: 755: 730: 720: 695: 648: 633: 623: 607: 581: 1033: 791: 786: 760: 725: 710: 298: 653: 643: 403: 282:'s Wamesit Power Company, which acquired most of Whipple's properties and water rights. Portions of Whipple's gunpowder mill built in the 1820s are among the oldest surviving industrial structures in the city. 817: 812: 1023: 917: 419: 396: 1028: 807: 75: 892: 140: 458: 448: 100: 897: 1004: 929: 443: 48: 962: 326: 286: 39: 1048: 1043: 997: 266:
at the improved mill until 1855 although he began moving gunpowder manufacturing operations to a more remote location on Maine's
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in 1833 to minimize risks of accidental explosions and to be closer to supplies of charcoal.
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The area was further developed in the second half of the 19th century by
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is a historic mill and canal at 576 Lawrence Street in
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Wamesit Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex is located in Massachusetts
Wamesit Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex is located in the United States
Lowell, Massachusetts
42°37′57″N 71°18′3″W / 42.63250°N 71.30083°W / 42.63250; -71.30083
82001994
Lowell, Massachusetts
Concord River
gunpowder
American Revolutionary War
Grafton, Massachusetts
Weathersfield, Vermont
Connecticut River
Laflin
Southwick, Massachusetts
Loammi Baldwin, Jr.
Cumberland and Oxford Canal
Benjamin Butler
National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places listings in Lowell, Massachusetts


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Whipple Powder Mill"
"MACRIS inventory record for Wamesit Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex"
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