Community Corner
Industrial Eden: The Legacy of Haywardville
Melrose Public Library will host, Over, Under and In: Using Waterpower Along Spot Pond Brook at 7pm. on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Water quenched human thirst,
beautified land and powered mills machinery for hundreds of years. It
was the lifeblood of the regional economy and it was here that the real
industrial revolution began.
Join us for an exploration of the
story of Spot Pond Brook as it was altered and improved to suit the
industrial communities' needs of Haywardville, Melrose and Malden.
Industrial Eden is a yearlong celebration of Haywardville, a
now vanished mill village that was located in Stoneham on the border of
Melrose, Malden and Medford. Straddling Spot Pond Brook, the village was
the site of early industrial development which later blossomed into
larger factories. The best known was the rubber-works that was developed
by Nathaniel Hayward. The mills ultimately closed, and the site was
taken for use as the Middlesex Fells Reservation. All buildings were
relocated and the site was restored to its picturesque appearance which
it maintains today.
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The Preservation Collaborative has put
together a wonderful series of lectures funded in part by cultural
council grants from Melrose, Medford, Malden, and Stoneham.
walking tours with former residents to lectures about life, there is
something for all ages in the Industrial Eden: The Legacy of
Haywardville programs. Be sure to go to http://www.preservation-collaborative.com/haywardville for more information about the events schedule, about Haywardville and much more.
Please stop by the Melrose Public Library, 69 West
Emerson Street, Melrose, MA to pick up a copy of the program and walking
tour guide.
