The Canal Block
The Canal Block
| Also Known As | Wooden Housing Row |
| Address | 1-7 Elm St |
| MACRIS ID | BIL.92 |
| Built | 1835 |
| Demolished | 1984 |
The Canal Block was a long two-story wooden row house of four tenements at 1, 3, 5 and 7 Elm Street (now Old Elm Street) in North Billerica, on the northwest side of the street beside the mills at the falls of the Concord River. It was built for mill workers by the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, probably in the 1830s, and was the last surviving building the canal company put up. It burned in 1984 and its lot is now a parking lot for the mill.
The land was part of the mill seat at the falls. On October 4, 1708 the town granted the falls and land on the west bank to Capt. Christopher Osgood for a mill, on conditions (a passage for fish, a bridge below the dam) that were repeated in every deed of the property for the next 150 years. When Capt. Osgood died in 1739 his estate included a grist mill, saw mill, fulling mill and half an iron works, and a homestead of 41 acres "Bounded ... westerly one the Road to Brod meadow and notherly by the way and mill yard to the River". The widow's third was set off, and the committee found that dividing the rest "will discommode or spoile the whole", so the two thirds went to his son Christopher, a miller. His will of 1748 ordered his real estate sold, and his executors sold "about forty acres of Land ... on the west side of Concord River" with "two Thirds of the Mills commonly known by the name of Osgoods mills" to Nicholas Sprake in 1749. Sprake sold to William Kidder in 1757, and Kidder in 1759 to John Carleton, a miller from Boxford, after whom they were called Carleton's Mills. After Carleton's death his heirs sold their two thirds to Thomas Richardson in 1783, and Richardson bought up the widow's dower, so that in 1794 he could sell the whole, "commonly known by the name of Richardson's Mills", with about forty acres to the committee of the Middlesex Canal.
The canal company rebuilt the mills in 1833. A millwright, George O. Wilson, testified in 1845 that "I took away the old mills and built the new mill gates, flumes, and wheels" in the summer of 1833. According to the reminiscences of Charles H. Kohlrausch Jr., quoted in the 1974 survey form, the Canal Block was built by Levi Wilson "in the early thirties", with Forrest Coburn as master builder, and "the east end was occupied by Boss Wilson who in 1848 built the Wilson House". The block stood on canal land between the road from the mills to Lowell and the canal. John Mixer's 1845 deed of the lot just to the west to John McCurdy runs only to "land of the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal", but McCurdy's mortgage to Daniel Wilson of September 1847 puts his east line "two feet Easterly from the west end of the Canal Block", the earliest record found that names it. The 1830s date rests on Kohlrausch and the rebuilding of 1833; the deeds prove only that the block stood by 1847.
On September 22, 1851 the canal corporation, winding up its business, sold eleven parcels at Billerica Mills to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica for $20,000, with a plan by R. H. Eddy. Parcel C ran from the river bridge past the saw mill, "crossing the Canal and partly by land of John Mixer" to "the County road leading to the Mills" and along the road to the canal bridge, "with all the buildings thereon standing"; the Canal Block was one of them. Family tradition, recorded in 1974, holds that Thomas Talbot brought his second wife to live in the block in 1855. The house passed with the mills to The Talbot Mills corporation in 1884 and stayed mill housing for eighty years. On the Talbot Mills division plan of 1936 it is the long building on Lot 71, 10,514 square feet next to the mill yard; the company sold most of the neighboring lots to their tenants in 1936 to 1940 but kept Lots 70 and 71.
The mill property passed to Talbot Mills, Inc. in 1944, to a new owner of the same name in 1956 and to Fabricon, Inc. in 1965. In February 1966 Fabricon sold Lots 70 and 71 "with the buildings thereon" to private buyers, and the block became a privately owned rental. A savings bank foreclosed on Lot 71 in 1969 and sold it at auction, "the buildings on said premises are now numbered 1-3-5-7 on said Elm Street". The owners recorded on the 1974 survey form held it until February 1984, when they sold it for $95,000 to CRT Development, the partnership that owned the old mill. That year the Billerica Historical Commission recorded "with regret" the loss to fire of "the Canal Block, 1-7 Elm Street, North Billerica, last surviving structure built by the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal (1835)". The lot went with the mill to Cambridge Tool & Mfg. Co. in 1997 and to L&P Aluminum Holdings in 2008, and today it is a parking lot, assessor's parcel 9-207.
The 1974 survey form's references "MdxND 18/136" and "18/389" are pages of the Billerica copy books (Southern District Book 480, Page 546 and Book 517, Page 204).
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- MACRIS BIL.92
- Billerica assessor, parcel 9-207-0 (Old Elm St): 0.241 acres, no building, parking for the mill; sales 1984, 1997, 2008
- National Register nomination 83003996, Billerica Mills Historic District (1983): the Canal Block (no. 649, 1830s), "oldest multi-family block"
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| 1740 | Administration and Division | Estate of Capt. Christopher Osgood of Billerica, intestate | His widow Elizabeth Osgood (thirds) and his eldest son Christopher Osgood, millwright, administrators | 1740: Osgood estate, the 41-acre homestead and mills on the west bank at the falls | Probate #16264 |
Administration granted October 26, 1739 to the widow Elizabeth and the eldest son Christopher. The committee's inventory of the real estate, April 17, 1740, values "one Gritt mill and mill pond with the River or Stream Called Concord River with the Dam & Sluces" at 800 pounds, a saw mill, half the iron works, a fulling mill, the dwelling house and barn, and "the Hom Sted Containing by Estimation forty one acres Bounded Southerly one Common land and westerly one the Road to Brod meadow and notherly by the way and mill yard to the River", in all 1,865 pounds. The widow's thirds were set off by metes and bounds, including a third of the grist, saw and fulling mills; the committee found that dividing the other two thirds "will discommode or spoile the whole", and they went to the eldest son Christopher. These are the two thirds of the farm and of "Osgoods Mills" sold in the 1749 to 1759 deeds. The land had come to Capt. Osgood by the town's grant of October 4, 1708 of the falls of Concord River for a mill.
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| 1748 | Will | Christopher Osgood of Billerica, miller | His executors William Stickney and Thomas Kidder, to sell; widow Sarah Osgood | 1748: will of Christopher Osgood, miller, ordering the mills sold | Probate #16268 |
Will dated August 25, 1748. He leaves his personal estate to his wife Sarah and directs "that all my Real Estate be Sold by my Executors unto the best advantage", the proceeds to be divided among his children as the law directs in intestate estates, his wife having a third, and "that the timber at the mill be sawed" toward his debts. Executors William Stickney and Thomas Kidder of Billerica; witnesses Zachariah Shed, Nathaniel Davidson and Joseph Ruggles, the clothier to whom Osgood had sold land and water for a fulling mill in 1747.
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| June 1, 1752 | Executors' Deed | William Stickney, yeoman, and Thomas Kidder, gentleman, of Billerica, executors of Christopher Osgood (Sarah Osgood, widow, releasing dower) | Nicholas Sprake of Billerica, clothier | 1749: executors sell two thirds of Osgood's Mills and the 40-acre mill farm to Sprake | 50/578 (South) |
Billerica town book 5, pages 249-252. Dated January 25, 1748/9 under the power of sale in the will. For 1,500 pounds in bills of credit, "about forty acres of Land ... on the west side of Concord River ... Easterly on said River westerly on a high way it being about two Thirds of the land which was granted by the Town of Billerica unto Capt. Christopher Osgood", "two thirds of the Mills commonly known by the name of Osgoods mills" and two thirds of the dam and stream "together with the Buildings thereon", as set off by a committee and accepted by the Judge of Probate. Conditions: whatever the town's vote of October 4, 1708 "granting said Land and Stream to Christopher Osgood the Father of the Testator" required, "a proper Passage for Fish", and the agreement with Joseph Ruggles. Acknowledged 1750, recorded June 1, 1752.
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| June 1, 1752 | Mortgage | Nicholas Sprake of Billerica, clothier | Oliver Farmer and John Pollard of Billerica, his sureties | 1752: Sprake mortgages the mill farm to his sureties | 50/580 (South) |
Billerica town book 5, pages 252-255. Dated June 1, 1752. Sprake conveys "about Forty acres which was Christopher Osgood's late of Billerica decd and bounded Easterly on Concord river westerly by a highway leading to Broad Meadow and two thirds of the Mills Dam and Stream and the other Buildings", excepting the widow Osgood's thirds "as described in the settlement of her late Husband's Estate" and the privileges granted to Joseph Ruggles, with about 267 acres more toward Chelmsford and 36 acres from "the old Bridge place by the Ford way", on condition that he pay William Brown of Salem, Esquire, 1,243 Spanish milled pieces of eight and William Stickney 713 pieces of eight, for which Farmer and Pollard had become bound with him. John Pollard discharged it January 13, 1757.
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| January 13, 1757 | Deed | Nicholas Sprake of Billerica, miller (Judith Sprake releasing dower) | William Kidder of Billerica, gentleman | 1757: Sprake sells Osgood's Mills and the mill farm to William Kidder | 53/541 (South) |
Billerica town book 5, pages 373-376. Dated January 10, 1757. For 706 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence, the same "about forty acres of Land ... on the west side of Concord River", two thirds of "the Mills commonly known by the name of Osgoods Mills" and two thirds of the dam and stream "together with the Buildings thereon standing", on the conditions of the 1708 town vote, the fish passage and the Ruggles agreement, "And all the Real Estate that the said Christopher Osgood died seised and possessed of (excepting two thirds of a Pew and old stable and about twelve acres of Land it lies in a swamp called Captn Danforth's valued at two Pounds)".
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| June 11, 1759 | Deed | William Kidder of Billerica, gentleman (Sarah Kidder releasing dower) | John Carleton of Boxford, Essex County, miller | 1759: Kidder sells the mills to John Carleton of Boxford, miller | 56/413 (South) |
Billerica town book 5, pages 463-465. Dated March 9, 1759. For 800 pounds, "about forty Acres of Land ... on the west side of Concord River ... Easterly on said River Westerly on a high way it being about two Thirds of the Land which was granted by the Town of Billerica unto Captn Christopher Osgood", "Two Thirds of the Mills commonly known by the Name of Osgoods Mills" and two thirds of the dam and stream with the buildings, on the same conditions, with all the real estate Christopher Osgood died seised of except a pew, an old stable and twelve acres in Capt. Danforth's swamp. The mills were afterwards called Carleton's Mills.
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| 1782 | Will and Division | Estate of John Carleton of Billerica, yeoman (Hannah Carleton, widow, executrix) | His widow Hannah (thirds) and children Nathan, John, Moses and Solomon Carleton, Elizabeth Todd, Hannah Laws and Lydia Mears | 1782: Carleton estate, the 60-acre mill homestead at the falls | Probate #3943 |
The committee appointed by Judge Oliver Prescott appraised "the Homsted being by estimation Sixty Acres with a Dwelling House & barn a Grist mill & Saw-mill a shop also thereon standing Westerly by the Road or way Leading from the Fordway throu Concord River to Broad Meadow so called and on all other parts by said River" at 1,175 pounds, with meadow, woodland and a share of a Sabbath-day house, and set off to the widow Hannah her thirds, including the east end of the dwelling house and "one full third part of the [mills] ... for her natural life". The heirs gave Hannah Carleton, executrix, a discharge for their shares of the two thirds on December 21, 1786 (accepted March 12, 1787).
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| March 31, 1794 | Deed | Solomon, Moses and Nathan Carleton, Jesse Manning, Thomas Todd, Thomas Laws and Thomas Mears, heirs of John Carleton, with their wives | Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman | 1783: Carleton heirs sell the mills and 40 acres to Thomas Richardson | 115/271 (South) |
Billerica town book 9, pages 87-91. Dated April 17, 1783, recorded March 31, 1794. For 818 pounds "lawful Silver money", "about forty Acres of Land ... on the West side of Concord River ... Easterly on said River, Westerly on the highway it being about two thirds of the land which was granted by the Town of Billerica unto Capt. Christopher Osgood", two thirds "of the Mills commonly known by the name of Osgoods or Carletons Mills" and two thirds of the dam and stream with the buildings, "as the same was set off by the Committee for the Widows Thirds", "meaning to convey two thirds of the Homested and Mills and Buildings thereon standing and the Shop is wholley conveyed". Richardson takes on two thirds of the 1708 town conditions, the Ruggles agreement and the repair of "the Bridge or Road" below the dam. Richardson later bought the widow's dower interest (S.115/274 and others) and in 1794 sold the whole as Richardson's Mills to the Middlesex Canal.
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| March 31, 1794 | Quitclaim | Solomon Carlton of Fitchburg, yeoman, heir of John Carlton | Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman | 1783: an heir releases his share of the widow Carlton's dower in the mills | 115/274 (South) |
Billerica town book 9, pages 91-92. Dated September 1, 1783. For 36 pounds 5 shillings, Solomon Carlton quitclaims his share in "that part of the real Estate of my Honoured Father John Carlton late of said Billerica Yeoman deceased, which was set off to my Honoured Mother Hannah Carlton as her Thirds or Dower", the reversion of the widow's third of the mills and homestead. Richardson bought the other heirs' shares of the dower in the same way (index: S.98/75, 1786, from Moses Carleton; S.105/315, 1789, from Nathan Carleton), and took a lease of the Carlton Mills from the widow (S.115/256), so that by 1794 he held the whole of what he sold to the canal as Richardson's Mills.
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| April 21, 1794 | Deed | Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman (Judith Richardson releasing dower) | Ebenezer Hall of Medford and Samuel Jaques of Wilmington, a committee for the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal | 1794: Richardson farm and mills bought by the Middlesex Canal; the Canal Block land | 115/259 (South) |
For 1350 pounds, "about forty acres of Land" bounded easterly by Concord River, westerly by the highway and northerly and southerly by the road; the reversion of half the dower of the widow Hannah Carlton, conveyed to him by Solomon, Moses and Nathan Carlton; five sixths of a small piece at the northeast end of the mill dam, bounded easterly "by Timothy Sprague's Ditch that conveys Water to the Fulling mill"; "together with all the Buildings ... including the Mills Mill priviledges ... commonly known by the name of Richardson's Mills being the same which was formerly granted by the Town of Billerica to Christopher Osgood together with the Mill Dam and Stream", on the conditions of the town's vote of October 4, 1708, a passage for fish, and his 1791 agreement with Timothy Sprague. Dated March 25, 1794; recorded April 21, 1794. Billerica town book 9, pages 81-82. The Canal Mills land from which the proprietors sold their small house lots.
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| November 28, 1845 | Deposition | George O. Wilson of Gardiner, Maine, millwright, deponent (at the request of Charles P. Talbot) | Perpetual remembrance (petition of C. P. Talbot; Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal objecting) | 1845 deposition on the canal company rebuilding its mills in 1833 | ?/? |
Billerica town book 17, pages 70-73 (Southern Registry page 531). Taken August 30 to September 17, 1845, before Seth Ames and Daniel S. Richardson, justices, on Charles P. Talbot's petition as owner "of a lot of land, a water privilege and mills in Billerica" affected by the canal company's dam on Concord River. Wilson, who knew "the mills at Billerica Mills, owned by the Middlesex Canal, and by Mr. Charles P. Talbot", says he built nearly all the gates and flumes then standing between 1833 and 1840 and that in the summer of 1833 "I took away the old mills and built the new mill gates, flumes, and wheels ... under the orders of Col. Butterfield". He describes the new grist mill, the saw mill and the gate "for the grind stone now used for the carpet factory". It shows the canal company rebuilding its mills in 1833, the program in which the Canal Block may have been built for mill hands.
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| April 10, 1846 | Deed | John Mixer of Billerica, yeoman (Nancy Mixer releasing dower) | John McCurdy of Billerica, victualler | 1845: the lot west of the Canal Block (McCurdy), bounded east by canal land | 480/546 (South) |
Billerica town book 18, pages 136-137 (Southern Registry Book 480, Page 546, per the grantee index). Dated December 15, 1845. For $225, the easterly four rods of Mixer's homestead lot on the north side of the road, "Beginning at the south easterly corner of the premises at land of the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal and at the road leading from Israel Colsons to the Canal Mills", north on the Proprietors' land about 7 1/2 rods to the towing path, west on the towing path four rods, south to the road and east on the road four rods, "with the buildings thereon". This is the lot of the John McCurdy House; its east line is bare canal land, the future or present site of the Canal Block, which is not named.
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| September 20, 1847 | Mortgage | John McCurdy of Billerica (Margaret McCurdy releasing dower) | Daniel Wilson of Billerica | 1847: earliest record naming the Canal Block ("the west end of the Canal Block") | 517/204 (South) |
Billerica town book 18, pages 389-390. Dated September 16, 1847. To secure $524 in five yearly payments, McCurdy mortgages his lot "on the north side of the road leading from Billerica Mills to Lowell", running east on the road about sixty feet "to land of the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal at a point two feet Easterly from the west end of the Canal Block", north about eighty feet to the bank of the canal, west to John Mixer and back to the road, "the same tract of land deeded to me by said Mixer in the year ... eighteen hundred and forty five and on which I am now erecting a dwelling house". The earliest record found that names the Canal Block, which was standing by September 1847. Margin: assigned to C. P. Talbot and others, Book 708 Page 285.
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| October 23, 1851 | Deed | The Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by Ebenezer Chadwick, President | Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, manufacturers and copartners | 1851: the canal company sells its mill lands, including the Canal Block lot, to the Talbots | 618/97 (South) |
Billerica town book 19, pages 136-147. Dated September 22, 1851. For $20,000 the canal corporation releases "eleven pieces or parcels of land lying in the town of Billerica", each lettered on a plan by R. H. Eddy dated September 12, 1850 "hereto annexed and herewith to be recorded": the mill land at the falls, the wharf, the canal lands on both sides of the county road at Billerica Mills, and the Pollard and Rogers purchases of 1795 and 1799. Parcel C runs from the bridge over Concord River near the milldam past the sawmill and "the Dye-house and Canal waste-way", "crossing the Canal and partly by land of John Mixer" to "the County road leading to the Mills" and east along the road 270 feet to the canal bridge, 98,436 square feet "with all the buildings thereon standing"; this is where the Canal Block stood. The deed also releases the water rights of Thomas Richardson's 1794 deed (subject to the earlier grants to Francis Faulkner and Nathan Mears), reserves the canal for navigation until discontinued, and binds the Talbots to keep the flashboards on the stone dam and, after the canal closes, to keep up the two canal bridges or fill the canal into a roadway. Directors Ebenezer Chadwick, William Appleton and William Sturgis.
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| September 30, 1944 | Deed | The Talbot Mills, a Massachusetts corporation of Billerica | Talbot Mills, Inc., Billerica | 1944: Talbot Mills to Talbot Mills, Inc., Lots 70 and 71 | 1013/89 |
Quitclaim ($49.50 in revenue stamps) of the mill property: the First parcel on the northeasterly side of Lowell Street, both sides of Elm Street and the Concord River, running along Elm Street to Lot 69 on the 1936 Monahan Plan B (Plan Book 60, Plan 28) and by the right of way, being Lots 70 and 71, the west part of Lot 60 and the mill lot; with lots on Wilson, Rogers, Pollard and Faulkner Streets and the water rights. Recorded September 30, 1944. The Talbot Mills had held the Mixer lot since the 1884 incorporation of C. P. Talbot and Co.'s mills.
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| 1956 | Deed | Talbot Mills, Inc., by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer | Textile Subsidiary Corporation, Billerica | 1956: Talbot Mills, Inc. (Clark family) sells its real estate, Lots 70 and 71 included | 1355/526 |
Dated September 28, 1956. Quitclaim of all the company's recorded real estate in Billerica. The First Parcel is "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon, situated on the Northeasterly side of Lowell Street, the Northwesterly side of Elm Street and the Southwesterly side of Elm Street and the Concord River", "Being Lots 70 and 71, the Westerly portion of Lot 60, and the lot showing the mill buildings" on the 1926-27-36 Monahan Plan B (Plan Book 60, Plan 28), a portion of the fifth parcel in the 1884 deeds of Thomas Talbot and others (Book 169, Page 472) and of Frank P. Putnam, guardian (Book 169, Page 468) to the Talbot Mills, with all water rights and mill privileges. Four more parcels on Wilson, Rogers and Faulkner Streets follow. "Being all and the same premises conveyed to said Talbot Mills, Inc. by Talbot Mills by deed dated September 30, 1944 ... Book 1013, Page 89." Lot 71 was the Canal Block.
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| 1956 | Merger | Textile Subsidiary Corporation (merged) | Talbot Mills, Inc., formerly Textile Manufacturing Corporation, Billerica | 1956: merger; the buyer takes the name Talbot Mills, Inc. | 1359/525 |
Articles of amendment (merger) under G.L. c. 156, s. 46A, signed by Ernest V. Horvath, President, and George A. Horvath, Treasurer, with the directors of Talbot Mills, Inc. "(formerly known as Textile Manufacturing Corporation)", certifying that it owns all the stock of Textile Subsidiary Corporation and merged it into itself by vote of December 14, 1956, so that the mill real estate deeded to the subsidiary that September passed to the new Talbot Mills, Inc. With it is recorded (Book 1361, Page 219) the letter of November 15, 1956, on the old company's letterhead ("Established 1857", "Incorporated 1944"), in which Thomas T. Clark, President, consents to Textile Manufacturing Corporation using the name Talbot Mills, Inc.
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| 1956 | Consent to Name | Talbot Mills, Inc. (incorporated 1944), by Thomas T. Clark, President | Textile Manufacturing Corporation | 1956: the old company lets the buyer use the Talbot Mills name | 1361/219 |
Letter to the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation dated November 15, 1956, on the letterhead of Talbot Mills, Inc., "Manufacturers of Woolen Fabrics for Men's and Women's Wear", "Established 1857", "Incorporated 1944" (Thomas Talbot Clark, President and Treasurer; Edward F. Hayes, Vice-President; P. Hayden Clark, Assistant Treasurer): the company "hereby consents to the use of the name Talbot Mills, Inc., or any similar name" by Textile Manufacturing Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation. Recorded with the 1956 deed and merger as part of the title to the mill property.
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| November 1, 1965 | Deed | Talbot Mills, Inc. (all its stock held by Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, Inc.), by Ernest V. Horvath, President | Fabricon, Inc., a Delaware corporation | 1965: Talbot Mills, Inc. to Fabricon, Inc. | 1724/23 |
Under the stockholders' and directors' vote of October 25, 1965, deed of the real estate of Talbot Mills, Inc. to Fabricon, Inc., dated October 28, 1965 and recorded November 1, 1965, including Lots 70 and 71 on Plan Book 60, Plan 28 (recited in Book 1740, Page 82).
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| February 24, 1966 | Deed | Fabricon, Inc., by John S. Dickson, President | Two private buyers, tenants in common | 1966: Fabricon sells Lots 70 and 71 with the buildings to private buyers | 1740/82 |
"The land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, situated on the Northwesterly side of Elm street and being shown as Lots 70 and 71" on Plan Book 60, Plan 28: southeasterly by Elm Street 200.03 feet, southwesterly by Lot 69 92.98 feet, northwesterly by a right of way 101.07 and 76.00 feet, northeasterly by other land of the grantor 50.58 and 43.20 feet, 17,391 square feet, with an easement to reach "the garage and sheds which are located on the Northerly portion"; "a portion of the premises conveyed to the Grantor by the Talbot Mills by deed dated 10/28/65". Dated February 14, 1966; recorded February 24, 1966. The Mixer house passed out of mill ownership after 114 years; in June 1966 the lots were passed through a straw (Book 1756, Pages 125-126) and mortgaged to the Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank (Book 1756, Page 127).
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| December 22, 1969 | Foreclosure Deed | Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank, by Paul A. Cameron, Treasurer, holder of the mortgage of June 22, 1966 | A private couple of Hyannis | 1969: savings bank forecloses and sells Lot 71, "numbered 1-3-5-7 on said Elm Street" | 1909/332 |
After the bank's vote of July 23, 1969 to foreclose the 1966 mortgage of the three private owners (Book 1756, Page 129) and notice of a "MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE" in November, the premises were sold at auction on the premises on December 3, 1969 for $19,200 to the highest bidders: "The land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, situated on the northwesterly side of Elm Street and being Lot 71" on Plan Book 60, Plan 28, southeasterly by Elm Street 128.11 feet, southwesterly by Lot 70 98.92 feet, northwesterly and northerly by a right of way, northeasterly by land of Fabricon, Inc., "Containing, according to said plan, 10,514 square feet". "The buildings on said premises are now numbered 1-3-5-7 on said Elm Street." In 1966 the 1966 buyers had passed Lots 70 and 71 through a straw to themselves and a third partner and mortgaged them to this bank. The 1969 buyers sold in 1971 for $25,500 to the owners named in the 1974 survey form, who held it until 1984.
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| February 16, 1984 | Quitclaim | A private owner of Wakefield | CRT Development, a limited partnership, Faulkner Street, North Billerica | 1984: Lot 71 bought by CRT Development, owners of the mill; the block demolished that year | 2698/158 |
Dated February 16, 1984. For $95,000, "the land with buildings thereon" on "the northwesterly side of Elm Street", Lot 71 on Plan Book 60, Plan 28: southeasterly by Elm Street 128.11 feet, southwesterly by Lot 70 98.92 feet, northwesterly 29.39 feet and northerly 76 feet by a right of way, northeasterly by land formerly of Talbot Mills, Inc., "now supposed to belong to Fabricon, Inc." "The buildings on said premises are now numbered 1-3-5-7 on said Elm Street." Subject to the rights in the 1966 Fabricon deed (Book 1740, Page 82) and a 1968 sewer taking by the Selectmen. Title through a 1982 deed between husband and wife (Book 2540, Page 474), who had bought in 1971 from the buyers at the 1969 foreclosure. The Canal Block burned and was taken down in 1984, the year the mill owners next door bought the lot back.
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| July 17, 1997 | Deed | CRT Development, a Massachusetts limited partnership of 67 Faulkner Street, by its general partner | Cambridge Tool & Mfg. Co., Inc. (c/o Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, Carthage, Missouri) | 1997: CRT Development to Cambridge Tool & Mfg. Co. (Lot 71 in the Fifth Parcel) | 8673/213 |
For $1,480,000, the former Talbot mill property in Exhibit A, including the "FIFTH PARCEL: The land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, situated on the northwesterly side of Elm Street and being shown as Lots 70 and 71" on Plan Book 60, Plan 28, southeasterly by Elm Street 200.03 feet, 17,391 square feet, and Lots 68 and 69. Recorded July 17, 1997.
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| April 4, 2008 | Warranty Deed | Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, a Missouri corporation, successor in interest to Cambridge Tool & Mfg. Co., Inc. | L&P Aluminum Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (c/o Pace Industries, Fayetteville, Arkansas) | 2008: to L&P Aluminum Holdings; the lot is now a parking lot | 22079/41 |
Dated March 27, 2008, consideration $0: the same parcels, including the FIFTH PARCEL, Lots 70 and 71 on Plan Book 60, Plan 28 (17,391 square feet). Recorded April 4, 2008. The site of the Mixer house is part of assessor parcel 9-94-0, 1 Old Elm Street (9.3 acres, the old Talbot mill), owned to date by L&P Aluminum Holdings LLC.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted; Probate # is a Middlesex probate case, Ctf a Land Court certificate of title.