Did You Know (Babson Farm)

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That on the 28th of December 1658 James was granted “twelve acres of fresh meadow [at Beaver Dam] lying above the Mill, also twenty acres of upland lying by the side of it”? (Gloucester Town Records 1: 71) This was where he and his wife settled and was known as the James Babson farm. It was here that he built the little stone cooperage shop, still standing today and open to visitors every summer. The barrels he made here were taken to Good Harbor Beach, filled with fish and shipped to England, the West Indies, etc. Roger W. Babson’s research indicated that James Babson’s stone shop was the first factory on Cape Ann.
From genealogy.com
E.J. Lefavour
http://www.khanstudiointernational.com

photos of James Babson Farm Cooperage and historical marker
Photos by E.J. Lefavour

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  2. My great grandfather worked on this farm, and I have a set of wrought iron fireplace tools that he made in the blacksmith shop there. Thanks for the history!

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