[MassHistPres] Pumping Stations II -- your town?

[Dennis De Witt]

If I can briefly beg your indulgence, again.  Below is a list of 18 towns and cites for which I have now identified a late 19th C water works Pumping Stations (“PS" below) for which I cannot find an image.  Most appear to be gone.  None are on the Mass Historical Commission’s Macris database.  For each I have contacted a local historical society and/or local libraries, where they are operating, without any success.  I would greatly appreciate knowing of any images — photos, postcards, drawings, etc.

Thanks

Dennis De Witt
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, Boston

Arlington. 1894  — PS in East Lexington (wells near Lexington Great Meadow Reservoir).  Also tall standpipe reservoir.  (Not the current 1907 MWRA pumping station nor its monumental water tank.) 

Belmont, 1889 — Cedar Street PS 

Chicopee, 1886 — PS at South and Springfield Streets.

Franklin, 1884  — Franklin Water Co. PS (wells near Mine Brook) —  also standpipe tank.

Gloucester, 1884  — Gloucester Water Supply Co. PS.

Great Barrington, 1890 — Fire District PS.

Hopkinton, 1884 — PS and water tanks .

Lexington, 1884 —  Lexington Water Company PS — site behind  40 Lincoln street.  Also reference to "Concord Hill PS", 1895. Unclear if same site.       

Norton, 1895 — PS — and raised tanks. 

Onset in Wareham, 1894 — Sand Pond PS  (Water tower in background of Onset postcards.). 

Orange, 1893 — water powered PS with standby steam engine.

Revere & Winthrop, 1884 — Revere Water Co. PS -- wells in Revere and Saugus.

Rockport, 1894 — Cape Pond PS —with standpipe tank. 

Sharon, 1885 — Sharon water company PS — with 80 foot high standpipe tank.

Swampscott, 1884 — Marblehead Water Company of Swampscott PS in Swampscott “near Stacy’s Brook” —  company also had site on New Ocean Street near Lynn line  — a standpipe tank.  Also supplied Nahant. (Not the Macris listed sewer PS) 

Watertown, 1884 — The Watertown Water Supply Co. PS. Next to the Charles (also supplied Belmont pre-1895)

West Springfield 1875 — West Springfield water co. Darby Brook PS supplied Mittinleague village

Whitman, 1884— Hobart’s Pond PS — and standpipe tank.

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