Brooks Saw Mill from the private collection of Kate Knudsen
 

The saw mill was in Middlesex Village where Black Brook joins the Merrimack River as shown in this detail from

Plate U of the 1879 Atlas of Lowell

This section of Black Brook near the River has been covered over and now runs underground

Most of A. L. Brooks's holdings were near the intersection of Dutton and Fletcher Streets including his house on Fletcher Street
 

Detail from Brooks Saw Mill photo from the private collection of Kate Knudsen
 

Detail from Brooks Saw Mill photo from the private collection of Kate Knudsen

Article from rom the Lowell Sun, September 28, 1998
 

There will be more about Artemas Lucius Brooks and his role in the Underground Railroad in Lowell in the next newsletter.
 
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