Historic Markers

Looking South in the center of Rowe sometime after 1907 when the stone church was built.

By the mid 1800s, many mills were established along brooks and land was cleared for sheep raising and farming. Mining operations were established in the late 1800s and early 1900s, providing work for the local community and immigrants. Remnants of this early “industrial age” can still be seen along smaller brooks, old stone walls, and the occasional cellar hole. By the mid-1900s, Rowe’s population began to decline as people moved west or to the surrounding valley communities.

The historic sites like the one shown here are marked throughout town (and on the map below). They indicate the locations of mills, shops, cemeteries, schools, a pound, and mining operations.

Click on the list below the map to learn about each site.

Text taken from The Histroy of Rowe, Massachusetts
by Percy Whiting Brown & Nancy Newton Williams