Billerica Mills Historic District
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Billerica Mills Historic District is a historic district between the Concord River
, Treble Cove Terrace, Kohlrausch Avenue, Indian Road, Holt Ruggles, and Rogers Streets in the village of North Billerica, Massachusetts
(Town of Billerica, MA)
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The C.P. Talbot & Company Mills still stands in the center of the district. The buildings were planned and sited over decades, spanning from the mid-19th century until the 1920s. The Talbot brothers were able to secure land bordering the Concord Falls from the defunct Middlesex Canal (MCC) Company in 1851. The dam, water power and 20 MCC acres were secured for $10,000.
In 1857, CP Talbot secured additional property from neighbor Faulkner and an agreement with Faulkner over water power rights. Also in 1857 they partnered with Lowell based Belvidere Company for 5 years, supplying water power while Belvidere gave the equipment and know-how. The exact date of the large brick building and clock tower is not known, but likely between 1865 and 1870. It was at this time that the Talbot brothers built the first tenement company housing for workers as well.
The Company itself operated and existed for 100 years until 1956. the Talbot brothers were the children of Charles (Ireland) and Phoebe Talbot (married in 1802) whose children were Charles P. 1807 and Thomas 1818 among six others. From Cambridge NY, they moved to Vermont and then Northampton Massachusetts where the brothers learned the trades of the mills.
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Concord River
The Concord River is a tributary of the Merrimack River in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. The river drains a small rural and suburban region northwest of Boston. One of the most famous small rivers in U.S...
, Treble Cove Terrace, Kohlrausch Avenue, Indian Road, Holt Ruggles, and Rogers Streets in the village of North Billerica, Massachusetts
North Billerica, Massachusetts
North Billerica is a unincorporated village of the town of Billerica, Massachusetts, United States, one of the nine sections that make up the Town of Billerica. It is the home to Faulkner and Talbot mills and the North Billerica Train Depot...
(Town of Billerica, MA)
Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...
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The C.P. Talbot & Company Mills still stands in the center of the district. The buildings were planned and sited over decades, spanning from the mid-19th century until the 1920s. The Talbot brothers were able to secure land bordering the Concord Falls from the defunct Middlesex Canal (MCC) Company in 1851. The dam, water power and 20 MCC acres were secured for $10,000.
In 1857, CP Talbot secured additional property from neighbor Faulkner and an agreement with Faulkner over water power rights. Also in 1857 they partnered with Lowell based Belvidere Company for 5 years, supplying water power while Belvidere gave the equipment and know-how. The exact date of the large brick building and clock tower is not known, but likely between 1865 and 1870. It was at this time that the Talbot brothers built the first tenement company housing for workers as well.
The Company itself operated and existed for 100 years until 1956. the Talbot brothers were the children of Charles (Ireland) and Phoebe Talbot (married in 1802) whose children were Charles P. 1807 and Thomas 1818 among six others. From Cambridge NY, they moved to Vermont and then Northampton Massachusetts where the brothers learned the trades of the mills.
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.