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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
o Main Street, opposite the burying-ground. It was finally again removed, in 1845, to the south side of School Street, above the Unitarian Church, where its old white oak frame still remains under a new covering. The paper mill referred to became the property of William Parker of Cambridge; afterwards of Major Uriah Moore and Enoch Wiswall. The latter, with Samuel Coverly and John Holland, of Boston, afterwards erected a Cotton Factory at the same point, and they were incorporated October 24, 1812, as The Waltham Cotton and Wool Factory Company. Betwenn 1780 and 1790 John Boies first made use of the water power at the upper fall by erecting a paper mill, and soon after a dwelling house. In order to establish a legal right to the mill privilege, and to prevent other parties, who were preparing to build a dam above Newton Street, which would have overflowed and destroyed his water power, from carrying out their plans, he is said to have set up a grindstone to go by water, where