Eli Morse Sawmill Foundations

Eli Morse Sawmill Foundations
Location Off Old Marlborough Rd., Dublin, New Hampshire
Coordinates 42°53′57″N 72°5′31″W / 42.89917°N 72.09194°W / 42.89917; -72.09194Coordinates: 42°53′57″N 72°5′31″W / 42.89917°N 72.09194°W / 42.89917; -72.09194
Area 0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built 1765 (1765)
MPS Dublin MRA
NRHP Reference # 83004056[1]
Added to NRHP December 18, 1983

The Eli Morse Sawmill Foundations are the surviving remnant of the first industrial site in Dublin, New Hampshire. The site is located astride a stream, near an old logging road, south of Old Marlborough Road, not farm from the Eli Morse Farm. It consists of four foundation walls made of dry laid granite boulders. The northern wall measures about 10 feet (3.0 m), and the others measure about 23 feet (7.0 m). To the west of the main mill's foundations are smaller foundations of extensions or outbuildings.[2]

The foundations are the only surviving elements of a sawmill erected c. 1765 by Eli Morse, one of Dublin's first settlers and a prominent civic participant in the town's affairs. The proprietors of the town offered Morse financial incentives to build the mill in 1764. The mill was operated by Morse and later his son Peter, who died in an accident at the site. The mill is known to have ceased operation by 1886.[2]

The mill site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Eli Morse Sawmill Foundations" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-04-24.


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