Northeast Gardening: How old is your town?, 1 by gardenmart

gardenmart wrote:
Here's a pic of the forge of the Saugus Iron Works. It is taken from the top of the smelting furnace. The archaeology was done back in the late '40s-early '50s. Everything but the house was reconstructed from the archaeological evidence. The museum houses what artifacts were dug up and the only actual remains of the works is the giant slag heap. But the furnace, forge, and slitting mill are operational, driven by waterwheels. A historic boatbuilding group built a shallop. which is a boat like the ones they used to ship ore and smelting materials in and iron products out. The park just went through a three year renovation which included a dredging of the river so that the boat could be displayed at the dock and go up and down the river. A street crosses the river now, but it was built up high enough so that the shallop can go under it if it takes down its mast. It's a National Historic site and a beautiful green oasis in the middle of Saugus.

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