THE HOUSE OF WALTER BAKER & CO. 



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comparatively small, local concern to the position of the leading 

 industrial enterprise of its kind on this continent. 



In 1895 the business was organized as a corporation under the 

 general laws of Massachusetts ; and in 1898 a special charter was 

 granted by the General Court. 



The old stone mill which was erected in 1849, on the site long occu- 

 pied by the small building shown in the engraving of 1822, has given 

 place to an imposing structure of brick and stone, known as Mill No. 5. 

 The plant now comprises six mills on the Dorchester and Milton sides 

 of the Neponset River, containing 348,480 square feet of floor space 

 about eight acres. 



It is an interesting fact that on the spot where 

 the industry was first started, more than a cen- \ 

 tury and a quarter ago, the business has con- 

 tinued and attained the highest development. 

 From the little wooden mill, 



" By the rude bridge that arched the 

 flood," 



XEPOXSET RIVER FALLS. 



