Duxbury (Mass.)--History
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harrison Loring Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-226
Abstract
This collection is primarily the business history of Loring's City Point Works in South Boston, from 1874 to 1894, when the yard was closed. The papers occupy 3 document boxes and are arranged by year and subject. Box 1 contains general business papers, the earlier files providing a great deal of information for the contract work on Cruiser #1 (U.S.S. MARBLEHEAD), and three sea-going tugboats. The last half of Box 1 contains family papers relative to Bay Farm, the family estate of Harrison...
Dates:
1842-1910 (bulk 1890-1910)
Found in:
Manuscripts
Orne-Cushing-Baldwin-Tappan family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-246
Abstract
Business and personal papers of four related families, of Salem, Duxbury, Roxbury, and other locations in the Boston, Mass., area, principally engaged in the maritime trades, although members of the Orne and Cushing families operated a brick works in Salem in the early 1800's.
Dates:
1723 - 1889
Found in:
Manuscripts