This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
New Pumping Station and Waterworks Upgrade 1875
A town committee completed a shore pumping station on Thames Street with a brick building, Knowles pressure pump, and two thousand feet of new pipes to Reynolds Mill, Phenix Sugar Refinery, and National Rubber Company works. Fifteen thousand dollars funded the project. Also covered are St Mary’s Fair prizes, and a Springfield Ohio girls baseball club called the Blondes and Brunettes, noted for their first public game in a reduced field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames Street
Church
State Streets
Knowles Force
Reynolds Manufacturing Company
Bradford Street
Phenix
Thames and
Bradford Streets
National Rubber Company
Wood Street
John Street
Herreshoff
Providence
ST Mary’s Fair
St Mary’s
NS Burnham
Mr Kane
Woonsocket
Johanna Tobin
Nellie Dwyer
Edward B Meiggs
Elizabeth Minnehan
James Tobin
Mayne
Mr McCallion
Warren
Annie Culley
Miss Mandin
Springfield
Ohio
Solomon