Collins Graves in the milk wagon he drove to warn villagers downstream.
Cotton Mill Dam.
Photographer: Geo. H. Ireland & Co.
Series: American Views, Popular Series, Mill River Flood, Hampshire County, Mass., May 16, 1874.
No.: 236
Subjects: Massachusetts,
Sawmill River (Mass.),
Massachusetts,
Floods,
Mill River Disaster,
1874
Collection: NYPL Digital Collections: Robert N. Dennis [From The New York Public Library]
Mill River valley after the flood.
Mill River valley, innundated May 16th, 1874.
A wreck left by the floods--Leeds.
Site of G.P. Warren's button factory.
Hayden, Gere & Co.'s brass works, from above.
Residence of Wm. Skinner--Skinnersville.
West side of Mill River--Williamsburg.
West side of Mill River--Williamsburg.
Cotton Mill Dam, 2 houses and tobacco shop gone.
Critchlow's Button factory.
View of Leeds looking north-west.
View of Haydenville, looking up the river.
View of Haydenville below dry bridge.
View of Haydenville above dry bridge.
Hayden, Gere & Co.'s brass foundry.
View of all remaining buildings in Skinnerville.
View above Skinner's house, looking south.
Collins Graves as he rode through the streets of Williamsburg, Skinnerville, and Haydenville.