Article ID: CBB696283794

The Mill Village on Goose Creek: Harrisville, New Hampshire (Photo Essay) (1994)

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Roberta Wingerson (Author)


IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 20
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 91-100


Publication Date: 1994
Edition Details: THEME ISSUE: IA IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Language: English

The mills in Harrisville remain as the central focus of the village, embodying the dynamic relationship between waterpower and early manufacturing. Drawing power from Goose Creek, the mills and the village expanded under what has been called a Rhode Island system of development. For almost 200 years, the economic life of Harrisville was tied to the production of woolen textiles. Because for the last 120 of those years the mills and supporting buildings were owned by one family, the Colonys, they survived into a period when their historic importance and the need for preservation were recognized.

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Article David R. Starbuck (1994) An Introduction to New Hampshire Industrial Archeology. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 4-18). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
John S. Wilson
Greenwood, Richard E.
Steven Kantor
Mary Rose Boswell
Robert L. Johnson
Marie Connell
Concepts
Industrial archaeology
Textile Mills
Water power
Buildings, Industrial
Sawmills
Historic preservation
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
United States
New Hampshire (U.S.)
New Bedford, Mass
Haciena Buena Vista
Berkshire mountains
Butte, Montana
Institutions
Berlin Iron Bridge Compoany
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
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