Fun to look at this New England website...

[Little Star]

New England is our backyard, it’s where we live, work and play. Our past is not LOST it’s around every corner and under every rock, If you’re brave enough to look. ” Not all who wander are lost” ~ J.R.R.Tolkien.

Abandoned Draper Loom Factory, Hopedale, MA
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More:
https://lostinnewenglanddotcom.wordpress.com/

[2naSalit]

1. Part of the old

Lowell System? I worked in a number of places like that in NH, ME and MA when I was a teen. They were pretty spooky while in use!

Interesting, though.

[Little Star]

2. Looks like it...

During the mid-20th century, Saco-Lowell was one of the "big three" cotton textile machinery builders in New England, along with the Whitin Machine Works and the Draper Corporation. While cotton machinery was the company's mainstay, Saco-Lowell also made machinery for the woolen and silk industries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saco-Lowell_Shops#Company_origins

My father in-law's father was recruited from England when Drapers first opened in Hopedale. I think he was a tool & die maker. Thank gawd for that or I would have never met my husband.

[2naSalit]

3. I've been browsing that website...

waaay too much to see there. Reminds me of days long gone by. New England is like that. I live in the west of country now and when speaking to those who have never been to New England, I urge them to go visit... they have little if any idea of what the place is like. It's so different from this area - SW MT. I am from New England, born there, mostly raised there... but I don't know if I could ever return to live there. I should go back just to visit the few relatives who still live there, takes weeks of purging some of the memories (good and bad) afterward every time I do go back. My family has a very long history there... but the estate on Cape Cod has been sold off and that was my anchor for decades. It's hard to go back there and not be able to visit my grandfather's woods.

I do kind of miss being by the Atlantic though.

Thanks for posting.

[Little Star]

4. New England has so much beauty to offer anytime of the year....

It's hard not to fall in love with it.

[2naSalit]

5. True that.

It is a beautiful place... will never dispute that. I still love it. If I were well off enough to have more than one home (heh, I can't afford to own anything right now), I would surely have one there. There's just something about that place.