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Recent Topo showing the location of Sawyers Mills. Note the mill buildings near the end of track.
 
 
 
 
 

 Down the river from the Sawyer Mill is the Bellamy Mill. The P&D went along to the right between the mill and route 16. The right of way is obliterated here. The Bellamy River, power scource for many mills is to the left.
 Further up the Bellamy are ruins of a mill which will be interesting to study at some future date. Since this article is about the P&D and the industries they served that will have to wait until a future date.
 

Charles St.
 Company houses on Charles St. These show up in the 1888 picture map, and are all there except for two. Sawyers Station (It is listed as Sawyer, Sawyers, and Sawyers Mills at various times.) is behind them to the right. The trolley and horsecar terminated on Central Ave. (route 108) ahead, apparently successfully negotiating permission to install a level crossing with the P&D/B&M. But then again, maybe the horse car came first, before 1874, and P&D had to get there permission. More research.
 
 

EngineHouse:
 In addition to water power from the Bellamy, Sawyers (American?) had a steam engine.
 
 

Sawyers Mill:
 The front of Sawyers Mill. The large building is mill #2 and 4.
 

Smokestack:
 Self explanatory. I'm glad  for the movent of presering these wonderful old mills to put them to use. If it were Cincinnati they would be long gone.
 
 

Storehouse3&5:
 
 
 
 

American Woolen Mills storehouse #3 & #5.  (formerly Sawyer Woolen Mills 1824-1899)
 Just as I suspected, there was a loading dock along this side. It was double track here, a siding/runaround. It appears they used it as a loading siding.
 Note the big loading doors which have become windows. Don't let the apparent size of this building fool you, it is an entrance to a multi-story double storehouse. The odd angle of the wall is due to the fact that it is actually two buildings set at an angle to each other, with a small connecting part. I bet this is where they delivered raw wool or cotton, and shipped out finished products.
 
 
 
 

Storehouse #5:
 A side view of storehouse #5. from the fill. It was double track here; the siding/runaround.
 
 

Tenaments:
Workers housing below the Sawyers mills. P&D is to the right, Bellamy River to the left. In the distance is storage house #5 on the right, and Mill #1 on the left. I wonder if they numbered them as they were built?