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Title
Broad
Brook
,
Conn
.
Creator
O.H. Bailey & Co.
Place
East Windsor (Conn.)
Scantic River (Conn.)
Topic
Textile industry
Genre
Bird's-eye views
Theme
Environment
Description
Bird's-eye
view
of a
section
of
East
Windsor
,
centered
around
a
woolen
mill
. The
dominant
feature
is
the
Broad
Brook
Manufacturing
Company
, a
complex
of
industrial
buildings
along
Machine
Shop
Pond
,
which
connects
with
Broad
Brook
Pond
,
located
in the
upper
left
hand
corner
.
Both
ponds
are
part
of the
Scantic
River
.
Butternut
Pond
is
on the
right
hand
edge
and
feeds
into a
power
canal
to the
factory
.
Other
main
streets
include
Church
Street
and
New
Street
,
which
intersects
with the
Connecticut
Central
Railroad
in the
upper
right
corner
.
Along
Main
Street
is
mill
housing
and an
unnamed
church
adjacent
to the
mill
.
Notes
Perspective
map
not
drawn
to
scale
. The
Connecticut
Central
Railroad
was
first
leased
by the
Connecticut
Valley
Railroad
and
later
by the
New
York
and
New
England
Railroad
. This
particular
line
ran
from
East
Hartford
to
Springfield
,
Massachusetts
with
stops
in
Melrose
(next
to
Broad
Brook)
,
Hazardville
, and
East
Longmeadow
.
Boston
:
O.H
.
Bailey
&
Co
.,
[between
1876
and
1880]
Publisher
Boston : O.H. Bailey & Co., [between 1876 and 1880]
Physical format
1
view
:
col
. ;
39
x
64
cm
.
Identifier
Accession
number
:
1984.121.0
image/jpeg
File
name
:
chs_1984_121_0.jpg
Source
The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
.
Rights
Reproduction
and
copyright
information
regarding
this
image
is
available
from The
Graphics
Collection
, The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
,
Hartford
.
Sub-collection
Birds eye views
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