. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. is fortunate in having the ancient Durfee mill to exhibit to visitorsfor the purpose of showing the remarkable advances made in con-struction during the past one hundred years. Col. Joseph Durfee was the owner, but whether the structure asit stands today is the result of the original plans, although it is-probable that it is, is not known, because legend has it—there isno history extant of it—that the first building was of wood andwas destroyed by fire in 1838. However, there is no doubt as toits
. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. is fortunate in having the ancient Durfee mill to exhibit to visitorsfor the purpose of showing the remarkable advances made in con-struction during the past one hundred years. Col. Joseph Durfee was the owner, but whether the structure asit stands today is the result of the original plans, although it is-probable that it is, is not known, because legend has it—there isno history extant of it—that the first building was of wood andwas destroyed by fire in 1838. However, there is no doubt as toits original owner. Col. Joseph Durfee was the son of Hon. Thos. Durfee andPatience Borden, who were married in Tiverton, R. I., August 9th,.1749. They had twelve children, one being Col. Joseph Durfee,who was born April 27th, 1750, and died in 1841, and his remainsinterred in the North cemetery. Fall River. His residence in 1811 was the old gambrel-roofed house thatstood on the spot now occupied by the building at the corner of 130. 131 South Main and Slade streets in which Dr. Normands drug storeis located. Col. Diafee commanded the local troops that defended this sec-tion when the British troops raided it in May, 1778. After thewar, he was elected town assessor and for many years representedTiverton in the General Assembly, which then generally convenedat Newport. One of the privileges of his farm, which was bounded on thenorth by what is now Freedom street and on the south by Birchstreet, then, of course, not in existence, on the east by the Watuppapond and on the west by Mt. Hope bay, was the stream that leadsfrom Laurel lake or Cook pond to the bay named, but his brookwas considered of little value for manufacturing purposes. Buthe had associated with far-seeing men during his years in Newportand in 1811 he joined forces with several of them and began toimprove his water supply. A dam was erected at the southeastcorner of the present building and another was placed at th
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