Views of Bucklin Property.
A 1999 view
looking across the Pawtucket River, RI from
the area of the historic Slater Mill, the point of the start of the Industrial
Revolution in America, to the present
Congregational Church and what was Bucklin land in the 1600's.
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This is a truly remarkable
antique 1815 French lithograph (labeled
"Pawtucket Bridge" and "Pawtucket Falls") of the view from the original
Bucklin lands looking across the river toward the Slater mills. The men fishing on the
rocks in the foreground are standing on the 'fishing rocks" of the Bucklins.
Isn't it fun to imagine that the artist had actual Bucklins in the drawing he
made? Credit for obtaining for us a copy of this lithograph , as well as
the drawing on the right below, goes to
Spaulding House Research Library.
A 1999 view of the bridge and falls
area. The bridge is the present Main Street Bridge. The grist mill
of the early Bucklins stood about in the area of the building
shown
in the upper right of the photo. The Bucklin fishing rocks were in this
area, but
now covered over by bridge materials and the places where mill factories later
stood.
Click on this map of the original Bucklin lands in Pawtucket to see
where the 1747 grist mill of James Bucklin stood in relation to the bridge of that day.
Map
of the original Bucklin lands in Pawtucket --->
This
photo on the left is a view looking North from the
area of Bass Rock
(Click to enlarge, and also click on the drawing
above of the Bucklin land to view
explanations of the area shown in this photo.) Note how the tidal river
(from the ocean area to the falls, the river is known as the
Pawtucket River) area narrows toward the Pawtucket
Falls at the North of this area. (Above the falls, the river is known as the
Blackstone River)
The right (East
Bank) , as far as you can see in this photo, was William Bucklin's land.
The photo on the right is a cropped area of the photo on the left. At the
top of the cropped area of the picture you will see a long horizontal line which
today is a concrete municipal landing. In Colonial
times it was known as Bucklin's Landing, a good place to land a boat from
the tidal river.
Note the following picture, which looks South from Bass Rock and shows the
nature of the tidal river
and
why early ships used Providence as a harbor (and one of the several
reasons why William Bucklin's 600 acres were a prime piece of property).
