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Title	Ruins of Mystic Iron Works/Oceanic Woolen Mill complex.
Creator	Scholfield, E. A. (Everett Augustus), 1843-1930.
Place	Pistol Point (Mystic, Conn.) Fort Rachel (Mystic, Conn.) Mystic (Conn.) Mystic River (Conn.)
Topic	Industrial buildings Rivers Shipyards Fires
Topic-Person	Hill, Mason Crary, 1817-1906
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Mystic Iron Works Burrows Coal Co
Genre	Photographs
Theme	Environment Infrastructure
Description	View looking across the Mystic River from Fort Rachel, showing the ruins (still smoking) of the June 1875 Mystic Iron Works/Oceanic Woolen Mills complex fire, Pistol Point, Mystic. The Mason Crary Hill shipyard is visible to the right of the complex. In the left foreground, on the Groton side of the river, a hip roofed house with a stone basement/first floor can be seen, and behind it, Burrows Coal Company.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Mystic Iron Works, 1862-1873, manufactured and fitted engines and boilers for vessels. Its boom period was during and immediately after the Civil War when it fitted and refitted a number of vessels. The company also built one vessel, the iron-hulled screw towboat Montaines. Mystic Iron Works closed in 1868. Oceanic Woolen Co. operated a textile mill there, manufacturing worsted goods, until the July 1875 fire destroyed all the buildings. Mystic native Mason Crary Hill was noted for his innovative approach to vessel design, and is credited with developing the half-clipper. He worked for Charles Mallory & Sons as a designer and master carpenter. From 1860-1874 he was in partnership with Amos Grinnell. The firm's Pistol Point yard occupied the site of the former Irons & Grinnell shipyard, and was active from 1864-1874. Hill acquired ownership of the yard and built vessels on his own there from 1876-1883. Hip-roofed house appears to be the one with ground-floor stone facade and second story porch on Water Street that is identified in another image as part of the the present Mystic Seaport Mallory Membership Building. Taken by Everett A. Scholfield, a professional photographer who worked primarily in Mystic and New London from 1865-1913.
Date created	1875.
Physical format	1 photograph : collodian stereo glass negative ; 4 x 7 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1975.294.209 File name: IMG0033-2321.PCD
Source	Mystic Seaport
Collection	Scholfield Collection.
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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