Summary edit

DescriptionStone House on Canal Street.jpg	English: Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 95001038.
Date	Taken on 25 September 2012, 16:47:21
Source	Own work
Author	C.S. Imming

Camera location	42° 00′ 58″ N, 71° 32′ 41″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	42.016111; -71.544722

In 1804, a company by the name of Blackstone Manufacturing Company (BMC) purchased 254 acres of land in what was called the South Parish of Mendon. This land would eventually be incorporated as part of the Town of Blackstone. During the 1800s the company opened for business using the Stone House as its textile mill.

In the late 1950s Earl Tupper purchased all of the land. He used the facility for his newly invented Tupperware products which were stored in the Stone House.

Earl Tupper built a recreation park on 12 of the acres of land to be enjoyed by his employees and their families. In the late 1980′s, Tupper sold the park to Blackstone Smithfield Corporation and it would remain virtually abandoned from 1988 until 1995.

Now part of the Blackstone Valley Boys and Girls Club facilities.

Licensing edit

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

You are free:

• to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
• to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

• attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue

This image was uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. Afrikaans ∙ Alemannisch ∙ azərbaycanca ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ Bahasa Melayu ∙ Bikol Central ∙ bosanski ∙ brezhoneg ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ Cymraeg ∙ dansk ∙ davvisámegiella ∙ Deutsch ∙ eesti ∙ English ∙ español ∙ Esperanto ∙ euskara ∙ français ∙ Frysk ∙ Gaeilge ∙ galego ∙ hrvatski ∙ Ido ∙ italiano ∙ latviešu ∙ Lëtzebuergesch ∙ Malagasy ∙ magyar ∙ Malti ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk ∙ norsk nynorsk ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ shqip ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ suomi ∙ svenska ∙ Tagalog ∙ Türkçe ∙ Yorùbá ∙ Zazaki ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ кыргызча ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ српски / srpski ∙ українська ∙ ქართული ∙ հայերեն ∙ नेपाली ∙ हिन्दी ∙ বাংলা ∙ മലയാളം ∙ ไทย ∙ 한국어 ∙ +/−