"Jim Wilkins" writes:

My memory of visiting the Saugus Iron Works some 60 years ago was that
it looked "authentic", ie crude, compared to the structure in our 1830
mill owner's house.

That was my impression, too. But dang! It worked! Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth in 1620 and set up a hardscrabble subsistence existence on
the edge of the wilderness. Less than 30 years later, the ironworks
proprietors built a high-tech industrial plant even further out into
the wilderness.

(Roughly in the middle of that interval, Harvard College was founded on
a muddy intersection across the river from the town of Boston with
all nine or so students enrolled.)

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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada