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The parish has to-day its regular organization, and its original limits. Parish # meetings are called annually, as they were 200 years ago. and are marked by the same seriousness and decorum.Very many places of historic interest are located within the limits of this ancient parish. At Newbury Falls, the hrst mill was built in 1634. On this location the first cotton cloth, first broadcloth and the first cut nails made in America were manufactured. To-day the Byfield woollen mills have there a large and well known factory for the manufacture of felt and woollen blankets. Here, too, was located the second water grist mill of the state.In By field also is the ordinal home of the Longfellows—tie ancestor of the poet and all others of the name. The old cellar remains, and the mounting block, from which the dames of the household mounted their horses. Not far from here is the ancestral home of the Moodys. Here William Moody settled in 1635, and here the present secretary of the navy, the Hon. William H. Moody, was born. On Warren street is the home of Col. Albert Pike of civil war fame. Paul Pillsbury, the inventor of many of the household comforts of to-day, lived in Byfield. From him we got coffee mills, shoe pegs, cut nails, etc.Near -by the meeting house is the building used for a seminary—the first female seminary in America. Here Miss Grant, Mary Lyon and Harriet Newell were enrolled as pupils. In the parish also is Dummer Academy, the oldest academy in the United States, established in 176o.From its doors have gone out many men illustrious in state and nation— two presidents of Harvard, two chief justices of the commonw’ealth, a minister to Great Britain, an English general of world wide fame, an American admiral of the revolution and a long line of men scarcely less noted in the service of state and nation.In the parish also was the first fulling mill in America, built by John Pearson in 1643. The site of this building is now occupied by the Glen mills, manufacturers of breadstuffs.
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Clinton Weekly Clintonian
Clinton, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 29, 1902
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