. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ed in a thicketof beech trees about three hundred yards to the northeastof the dam. This half-finished upper stone we have calledthe Mystery Millstone, for no one living knows anythingabout its origin or the reason for abandoning it. It is even suggested that an Indian attack might havescared away the makers ; but a more credible guess is thatthis favorable spot for a dam and a suitable flat stone thusnear to it might have lured on some industrious Cohas-seter until he saw that the project would not pay. Thestone was probably broke
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ed in a thicketof beech trees about three hundred yards to the northeastof the dam. This half-finished upper stone we have calledthe Mystery Millstone, for no one living knows anythingabout its origin or the reason for abandoning it. It is even suggested that an Indian attack might havescared away the makers ; but a more credible guess is thatthis favorable spot for a dam and a suitable flat stone thusnear to it might have lured on some industrious Cohas-seter until he saw that the project would not pay. Thestone was probably broken off by nature from a round SEPARA TION FROM HINGHAM. 2^1 glacial bowlder which now rests a few feet away, and laywith its flat, circular side upturned, suggesting the idea ofa millstone. The author has seen just such another stonein the woods a mile back of the old Mordecai Lincolnhouse; but any of the glacial bowlders are so subject tocracks as to make poor millstones. However, two cornmills were enough. Of the other industries that urged on the precincts. Photo, M. H. Reamy. Mystery Millstone. Back of Town Hill, half mile westof King one knows who made it, nor when, nor why. growth as early as the year 1737 coopering was an impor-tant one. Fish barrels and firkins and tubs had to bemade in some abundance to supply the growing trade withBoston ; so that several coopers, among whom were Heze-kiah Tower and his son David, were kept busy for a partof the year in their little shops, or in sheds at the back oftheir houses. 252 HIS TOR Y OF COHASSE T. There are no shops mentioned in the tax list of 1737,but there were doubtless tan shops, blacksmith shops, andcooper shops, for those industries were practiced in thisprecinct at that time. A blacksmith shop on the westside of Beechwood Street, not far from Turtle Island, issaid to have forged out the bolts for some of the firstshipbuilding in Cohasset. Nevertheless, we were but a small community andscattered in those days.
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