Quabog Area

Includes the State Alm House Saw Mill on the West to Fentonville in the East. It also includes a suspected Fay mill, not on any map.

From: History of the Town of Palmer (1880) page 11

The privilege at Blanchardville was occupied as early as 1800, perhaps earlier. In 1805 Captain Hyde had mills here. In 1818 Elisha Converse's mills are named in the records. In 1830 Bugbee had a saw and grist mill here. In 1824 the Blanchards built their scythe factory on this fall, a little below the grist mill, and established what proved to be one of the most important of the early industries of Palmer.