Industry

General

• Andover Massachusetts Business History of Andover, Andover Townsman 1896 (AHS Library Imprint 974.451 AMB)

• Fifty Years of Industry
  An address for the Tuesday Club - includes many types of firms
  Written by Sellars, Grace (MHL Library R608 SEL)

Agriculture

The dominant industry in Andover throughout the 1700's, remained strong throughout the 1800's, farms started to close for other developments - residential and business - in the early 1900's. Andover farms include Shattuck Farms, Sylvan Poultry, etc.

• Farmers Everyday Book Sketches of Social Life in the Country
  Written by Rev. John L. Blake, D.D. (AHS Library 630.973 Bl)

• Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society from 1818 to 1829 (AHS Library 808.851 EAS)

• Self-Sufficiency and the Agricultural Economy of Eighteenth Century Massachusetts
  Written by Betty Hobbs Pruitt (AHS Library 630 974 PR)

• New England Farmer
  Edited by Thomas G. Fessendeu (AHS Library 630.5 NE)

• Tradition and Transformation:
  Rural Economic Life in Central New England 1790-1850
  Written by Old Sturbridge Village (AHS Library 630.974 STUR)

• A Long Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England
  Written by Howard S. Russell (AHS Library 630.973 RUS)

• Working in Rural New England 1790-1840
  Written by Shomer Zwelling (AHS Library 630.973 RUS)

• History of Agriculture in The Northern United States, 1620-1860
  Written by Percy Wells Bidwell (AHS Library 630.973 BI)

• Family Security in the Transition from Farm to City 1750-1850
  Written by Richard L Bushman (AHS Library 630.973 BU)

Andover Historical Society Newsletter Articles:
Society's Barn Museum Features Old Farm Equipment - written by Jack Custer - Vol. 04, No. 2
Farming Used to be a Major Industry in Andover - written by Virginia Cole - Vol. 11, No. 3
Andover’s Twin Cedar Farm - It’s Origin and History (Abbot Farm at 50 Sunset Rock Road ) - written by John Sullivan - Vol. 12, No. 4

Banking / Finance / Insurance

• Andover Bank, re-named Andover National Bank, Fleet, now Bank of America (AHS Library, Pamphlets)

• Andover Savings Bank, re-named Andover Bank, now BankNorth (AHS Library, Pamphlets)

• Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance, re-named The Andover Companies (AHS Library, Pamphlets)

• The First One Hundred and Fifty Years, The Andover Companies 1827-1978
  Written by Thomas W Leavitt (AHS Library - Available for Loan)

Blacksmithing

• The Blacksmith Ironworker and Farrier
  Written by Aldren A Watson 1977 (AHS Library 621.7 WA)

Publishing / Publishers / Printers

• History of Printing in Andover Massachusetts 1878-1931
  Written by Scott H. Paradise (AHS Library Archives A Rare 656 PA)

• Catalogue of Andover Publications
  Published by Warren F. Draper 1887 (AHS Library Archives 1887 A 015 D)

Textile Manufacture / Textile Mills

Textile manufacture was the dominant industry in Andover throughout the 1800's.

• Textiles and Clothing
  Written by McGowan and Waite 1923 (AHS Library 677 MC)

• The Story of Textiles
  Written by Perry Walton 1912 Compiled & Written for John S. Lawrence (AHS Library 677 WAL)

• Samuel Slater and The Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790 - 1860
  Written by Barbara M. Tucker 1984 (AHS Library 677 TU)

Andover Historical Society Newsletter Articles:
Frye Village Flax Mill - written by George Glennie - Vol. 04, No. 3
Four Mills (Abbot Village, Ballardvale, Frye Village and Marland Village) Provided Base for Cultural Expansion - written by Bernice Haggerty - Vol. 07, No. 1
Old Letters Illuminate Life of Andover Mill Girls (Russell sisters from Newry, Maine) - written by Marilyn Burns - Vol. 12 No. 4

Abraham Marland Company / Marland Manufacturing Company / Marland Mills (AHS Files)

J. P. Stevens & Company (AHS Files)

M. T. Stevens & Sons - acquired Marland Mills in 1879 (AHS Files)

Ballardvale Mills / Ballard Vale Mills (AHS Files)

• History of Ballardvale
  Published by Memorial Hall Library 1995 (MHL R974.45 HIS)

Smith & Dove Mills / Smith & Dove Manufacturing (AHS Files)

• Smith & Dove Manufacturing Company
  Andover, Massachusetts 1926 (MHL R677 SMI)

Andover Historical Society Newsletter Article:
First Flax Mill in America (Smith & Dove Mfg. Co.) - written by George Glennie - Vol. 03, No. 4
A Long Linen Thread: Smith & Dove in Andover - written by Florence Feldman-Wood - Vol. 23, No. 4

American Woolen Company (AHS Files and Pamphlets)

• Mills, Mansions & Mergers: The Life of William M. Wood
  Written by Edward G. Roddy
  The most comprehensive book written to date about Andover's Shawsheen Village, one of America's first corporate communities - created by American Woolen Company's William Wood. (AHS Library - Available for Loan and R B Wood WI at MHL)

• Shawsheen, The Model Community and the Home of Officers and Staff of the American Woolen Company
  Written by the American Woolen Company 1924 (MHL R917.445)

Andover Historical Society Newsletter Articles:
American Woolen Co. Ran Farms - written by Karen Herman - Vol. 13, No. 2

Industry - Rubber Manufacture

Tyer Rubber Company

• After Him, You're First
  Written by Tyer Rubber Company 1945 (AHS Library)

More information:

Andover Historical Society's List of General References & Resources

Andover Historical Society Newsletter Articles:
Allen Hinton, Ice Cream Man - written by Miriam Putnam - Vol. 05, No. 2
The 1835 Iron Horse Changed the Face of Andover (Railroads - Andover & Wilmington, Boston & Maine) - written by Franklin Haggerty - Vol. 06. No. 4
Old Storekeepers Were Versatile - written by Martha Schmidt - Vol. 09, No. 2
Andover’s Co-op Provided Consumers Capitalism - written by Cornelia Fitts - Vol. 09, No. 4
Our New Exhibit Will Feature: Made in Andover - written by Charlotte Smith - Vol. 14, No. 3
A Local Mason (Reuben Frye) Left Landmarks in Brick and Stone - written by Warren Lewis - Vol. 19, No. 3
Probate List Produces A Picture of Andover In 1828 (Kidder & Swift) - written by Karen Koch-Weser - Vol. 20, No. 3
Craighead and Kintz Bronzes Made in Ballard Vale Factory - written by Ruth Sharpe - Vol. 24, No.1

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