Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, 
Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, 
Concord, N.H. 


LANDMARK: Bellamy Falls and Mills, Richardson's mills

NAMES: GREAT FALLS MANUFACTURING, CO.; BARNEY, Jesse; WENDELL, Isaac; 	
	HANSON, Zaccheus; HANSON, Stephen; HANSON, Abijah; SAWYER, Alfred I.; 
	RICHARDSON, Mr. Augustus; HALE, Wm.	
		
	The Great Falls Manufacturing Co. acquired control of the water power 
in the Bellamy district by various purchases in 1823-24.  In a deed from Jesse
Varney (who had obtained a part of the old Dudley privilege) to Isaac 
Wendell, agent of the above Company, Ap. 2, 1823, mention is made of the 
cotton factory at Bellamy.  This was the Hanson factory, built by Zaccheus 
Hanson father of the above Stephen and Abijah (Hanson), at a dam just below
Dudley's falls, where the present saw-mill stands.  It was bought and 
removed by Alfred I. Sawyer in 1832.  The saw-mill here was erected some 
years later by Mr. Augustus Richardson, who acquired the whole water privi-
lege at Bellamy by various deeds between 1839-1850.  He also had a grist-
mill, and established other works.  Richardson's mills and privilege were
 acquired by Wm. Hale by different conveyances.  The final one seems to 
have been in 1867.  A few years later he conveyed them to the proprietors 
of Sawyer's mills.  There are still two dams here.  At the upper one, the 
old Dudley privilege, is a grist-mill on the south side of the river.  
At the lower dam, where the cotton factory once stood, is a saw-mill on 
the north side. The highway passes between these two mills.		

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