. Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown. was accomplished by building a dam at an expense of $450, increasing^the area of the pond to 600 acres. As manufacturing at Marlboro increased it was found necessary toeconomize water by storing that which would otherwise be wasted at night, and so a basin was pre-pared at a point near the Marlboro and Harrisville line, by two enterprising men who completed thework in 1861. Three years later it came into the possession of the Bree
. Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown. was accomplished by building a dam at an expense of $450, increasing^the area of the pond to 600 acres. As manufacturing at Marlboro increased it was found necessary toeconomize water by storing that which would otherwise be wasted at night, and so a basin was pre-pared at a point near the Marlboro and Harrisville line, by two enterprising men who completed thework in 1861. Three years later it came into the possession of the Breed Pond Company and is now ■90 HISTORICAL SKETCff OF MARLBORO. known as the little reservoir. In 1868, another reservoir was built, having an area of about 150acres, and in 1877 the most expensive and important work of all was carried out, in the formation of areservoir at Marlboro Glen. The dam holding back the waters here is one of the largest and mostthoroughly built in this part of the State, its dimensions being as follows : extreme length 255 feet,length of roll-way ninety-four feet, extreme height thirty-five feet, height of roll-way, thirty-two Methodist Church, Marlboro. The material used in its construction comprised 3,500 tons of granite and other stone ; 5 7,000 feet oflumber, and 3,000 pounds of iron. This reservoir is designed to hold the water which would other-wise run to waste at night and other times when the mills are not in operation. The first settlers in Marlboro were evidently fully appreciative of^ the fact that the water powersgoing to waste all around them could be easily harnessed and made to labor in their service, foralthough the first permanent settlement in town was not made until 1764, the first mill was erected in1767. This was a saw mill, and a frame house was built from its product the same year. In 1768another saw mill was erected, and also the first grist mill in this section. Both these mills were locatedupon the stream now known as
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