Matthews Fulling Mill Site

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Matthews Fulling Mill Site
NorthBrookfieldMA SuckerBrook.jpg
Sucker Brook off Mill St. in North Brookfield; the mill was located near this crossing
Nearest city North Brookfield, Massachusetts
Built1749
NRHP reference No. 75000302 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 12, 1975

The Matthews Fulling Mill Site is an historic colonial industrial site at North Brookfield, Massachusetts. It is the location of a fulling mill established by Daniel Mathews c. 1749. This mill was where Rufus Putnam, the American Revolutionary War officer and early settler of the Ohio Country, was apprenticed to Mathews, who was his brother-in-law. The mill was located on Sucker Brook near the town line with New Braintree. [2]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Chamberlain, D.H. (1900). "Old Brookfield and West Brookfield". The New England Quarterly: 500. Retrieved 2014-03-25.