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Carlisle Saw Mill, Pages Brook – historical start

I was reading the excellent Carlisle:  Its History and Heritage by Ruth Chamberlin Wilkins and came across the founding of the mill on my property on Bedford Road, Carlisle.  I have excerpted it below by hand. Product Details (Amazon.com)  Unknown Binding: 481 pages Publisher: Carlisle Historical Society; 1st edition (1976) Language: English ASIN: B0006CO8UA Page ...

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Carlisle Massachusetts, Wilkins Notebooks and old photos

I did a bit of digging for my prior post and when I Google searched for William Koford, I stumbled on the DigitalCommonwealth website.  It is wonderful and pretty well organized considering it appears to be structured via an automated process. Here is a search of photographs of Carlisle MA on the site.  Below, are ...

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Old photos of the Koford property vs Today

I mentioned in this post here  that my parent’s had found some old photos that Alice Koford had taken and given them in the late 1960’s when they purchased the property on South Street in Carlisle.  The photos were taken post WWII but before the property was sold in the estate sale (as I recall, ...