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A Gallery of 24 Items: Martin Machine Co. & Mont. Old Home Days
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A potpourri of Montague Center images from 1978 to 1985.
The probable date of each image is in the File Name, i.e., 1eg78mmco.jpg. The number in the name (78) is the year of the image . . . 1978. In 1834 the Sawmill River at its cascading water-fall—where today the Montague Book Mill (1987) is located—powered millstones that ground grain into flour in a grist mill that was operated by Alvah Stone. Further back, there was an 18th century (unidentified) grist mill in this location. Subsequent proprietors of the “Stone’s Grist Mill” were, L.H. Stone, S.S. Holton, Sylvester Bangs, W.H. Nims and George M. Stratton. In the 1930s the mill was converted into a machine shop, where the Martin Machine Company made machineries to stamp and etch markings into or on a plethora of metal and wood shapes and devices. The most recognizable retail mark is the oval trademark that is stamped into every Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Martin machine ceased operations in the mid 1960s.
Martin Machine Co. is among the National Registry of Historic Places, Franklin County, MA (June 30, 1997).
The probable date of each image is in the File Name, i.e., 1eg78mmco.jpg. The number in the name (78) is the year of the image . . . 1978. In 1834 the Sawmill River at its cascading water-fall—where today the Montague Book Mill (1987) is located—powered millstones that ground grain into flour in a grist mill that was operated by Alvah Stone. Further back, there was an 18th century (unidentified) grist mill in this location. Subsequent proprietors of the “Stone’s Grist Mill” were, L.H. Stone, S.S. Holton, Sylvester Bangs, W.H. Nims and George M. Stratton. In the 1930s the mill was converted into a machine shop, where the Martin Machine Company made machineries to stamp and etch markings into or on a plethora of metal and wood shapes and devices. The most recognizable retail mark is the oval trademark that is stamped into every Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Martin machine ceased operations in the mid 1960s.
Martin Machine Co. is among the National Registry of Historic Places, Franklin County, MA (June 30, 1997).