17-694: The Assabet Woolen Mill was originally a textile factory complex founded by Amory Maynard in 1847 near the Assabet River in the northern part of what was then Sudbury, Massachusetts . The area became the Town of Maynard in 1871. The business went bankrupt in 1898, but reopened in 1899 as part of the American Woolen Company , which expanded it. The mill ceased operation as a woolen mill in 1950. The buildings were later repurposed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) as its corporate headquarters. As of 2015,
34-472: A gift to the town. The weights that power the E. Howard & Co. tower clock and bell-ringing mechanisms are wound up once a week. The four clock faces have always been illuminated by electric lights. After bankruptcy in 1898, it was purchased by American Woolen Company which modernized and expanded the facility. Textile production ended in 1950, and the complex stood empty. In 1953, several Worcester businessmen formed Maynard Industries, Inc., which purchased
51-562: A privately owned cemetery before the land was purchased by the town. East of this original portion is the "new cemetery" section laid out in the 1930s, using labor funded by the Works Progress Administration . It has a series of concentric lanes in a roughly ovoid shape, and is joined to the old section by a single lane. The Maynard family crypt is a prominent feature on the north side of Glenwood Cemetery, within sight of passers-by on Route 27. Amory Maynard (1804-1890) started
68-411: A town. The Town of Maynard - named after Amory - came into being on April 19, 1871. Amory was actively involved in running the mill business until 1885 (age 81), when he suffered a stroke. Lorenzo, his oldest son, took over managing the mill, William participated, but later moved away, and Harlan had died young. In addition to the mill, Amory was central to making sure the railroad came to Maynard and to
85-498: A woolen mill on the Assabet River in 1846. In 1871 the village of mill workers and other residents officially became the Town of Maynard. The crypt is an imposing earth-covered mound with a granite facade facing the road. The mound is 90 feet across and about 12 feet tall. The stonework facade is approximately 30 feet across. The ceiling of the crypt has a glass skylight surmounted by an exterior cone of iron grillwork. The granite lintel above
102-639: The Assabet River in Sudbury and Stow. They founded the Assabet Woolen Mill in 1846, producing carpets and later wool used in military uniforms during the American Civil War. Expansion of the mill combined with hiring of people to work in it led to a population increase in what was known as Assabet Village. In 1871 the people of the area petitioned the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the right to become
119-641: The Assabet Woolen Mill and namesake of the community. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NR#04000425) on May 12, 2004. Glenwood Cemetery is located at the northeast corner of Parker Street ( Massachusetts Route 27 ) and Great Road ( Massachusetts Route 117 ), a short way south of the town center. It has entrance is on Great Road, roughly midway between Parker Street and Old Mill Road, and on Parker Street, nearly opposite Walker Street. The cemetery has two distinct sections, reflecting its growth over time. The oldest portion of
136-519: The American Woolen Company. Glenwood Cemetery (Maynard, Massachusetts) Glenwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery northeast of Parker Street and Great Road in Maynard, Massachusetts . It is one of the first municipal creations of the town after its incorporation in 1871, and is the resting place of many of its early and prominent residents, including Amory Maynard , founder of
153-399: The cemetery is 8 acres (3.2 ha) in size, and was purchased by the town in 1871, the year of its incorporation out of portions of Sudbury and Stow . This area was laid out in a version of the style of the then-fashionable rural cemetery movement, with a circular lane at the entrance and a series of parallel lanes behind. At the center of the circle there was originally a gazebo , which
170-466: The construction of the first church, on land he and Knight donated. He and Lorenzo operated a construction company that built many of the boarding houses and homes in town. Amory died in 1890 and was buried in a mausoleum at the Glenwood Cemetery . His son Lorenzo continued in management of the mill for several years, but left after it became bankrupt in 1898. The mill reopened the next year as part of
187-409: The facility is host to various small business as "Mill & Main". See Maynard, Massachusetts for further details regarding the use of the dozen or so mill buildings. Starting in the eighteenth century, several grist mills and saw mills were constructed along the Assabet River up- and down-river from the site of the current mill building complex. In 1847 Amory Maynard and William Knight constructed
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#1732863174108204-475: The family saw mill when his father died. Maynard also started a large construction business. In 1826 Maynard married Mary P. Priest. They had three sons: Lorenzo, William and Harlan. Maynard's first mill was forced to close when the City of Boston acquired Fort Meadow Pond for the City's water supply. With the money he received from the buy-out, Amory Maynard partnered with William Knight to buy land and water rights for
221-465: The first buildings of Assabet Woolen Mill on the current site. The mill, located between its mill pond and the Assabet River, produced carpets and later wool cloth used in military uniforms during the American Civil War. The mill complex is also home to the oldest, still-working, hand-wound clock in the country (see image). The clock tower was constructed in 1892 by Lorenzo Maynard (Amory's oldest son) as
238-546: The mill buildings in 1993. Wellesley Management purchased the property in 1998 and rented space to various business under the operating name Clock Tower Place. In 2015 "Mill & Main" acquired the mill complex and currently leases space to office and light industry businesses. New owners completed interior and exterior capital improvements at the eight-building campus in 2017. 42°25′52″N 71°27′18″W / 42.4310°N 71.4549°W / 42.4310; -71.4549 Amory Maynard Amory Maynard (1804–1890)
255-547: The property and rented space to business and industrial tenants. In 1957 the newly created Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital) rented 8,500 square feet of space in the mill complex. Digital expanded its space over time, until in 1974 it purchased the entire 1.1 million square foot complex. Maynard became known as the "Minicomputer Capital of the World". Digital remained headquartered in Maynard until 1998, but it had shuttered operations in
272-491: Was a textile manufacturer who was the namesake of Maynard, Massachusetts . Amory Maynard was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1804 to Isaac and Lydia Howe Maynard. The Maynards were descendants of a Puritan , John Maynard, who came to Massachusetts from England in 1635. At age fourteen, Amory Maynard left school to work in his family's farm and saw mill at Fort Meadow Pond . At age sixteen, Maynard took over management of
289-477: Was to be a focal point of the cemetery. It was destroyed in the New England Hurricane of 1938 . The main gate (image) is not the original. It replace an earlier cast iron gate in 1928. The majority of the trees in the cemetery are sugar maples, planted after the hurricane to replace downed trees. About two dozen burials pre-date the official creation of Glenwood Cemetery, suggesting that it was functioning as
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