[MassHistPres] Pumping Stations II -- your town?

[heartwood]

dennis....
I hope all your important sleuthing pays off....and when it does, I look forward
to seeing images and drawings...
thanks!

jade mortimer
heartwood window restoration
po box 114 1605 mohawk trail
charlemont, ma 01339
413-625-8680

From: Dennis De Witt 
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:43 PM
To: MHC MHC listserve 
Subject: [MassHistPres] Pumping Stations II -- your town?

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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