The Old Foundry Building
Notes de recherche
- Article du Stanstead Journal : « Pioneer Life on the Frontier »,14 février 1952 (biographical sketches)
- H. M. Hovey: Attorney in Rock Island
- Owns the old foundry and adjacent buildings which is occupied by the Dominion Whip Co.
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Centenaire de Rock Island
p. 2
- 1815: Iron foundry
p. 3
- Butterfield & Co. started in 1879, Lewis Young and F. D. Butterfield.
- Located in the old foundry building on Railroad Street atop of Foundry Hill.
- Stanstead Journal, Aug. 23, 1956
- Rock Island had successively saw mills, carding mills, a paper mill by 1832; a shoe factory by 1840 and then a foundry.
- Forests and clearings (original publishing July 15, 1874)
- Levi Mattison:
- Started an iron foundry in 1815, but soon sold out and left the country. (p. 33)
- The present limits of the village contain 8 store, 3 groceries, 3 boot and shoe factories, 2 cabinet shops, 2 planning mills, a door and sash factory, an iron foundry, a grist mill, a machine shop, a last and shoe peg factory, a blacksmith’s shop, a tailor’s shop, a harness shop, a hatter’s shop, a drug store and jeweller’s [sic] shop, a book store, post office, and hotel, a printing office, a school house and about 50 dwelling houses. Population about 450. (p. 35)
