Dodge's Mill sawmill with stacked logs, Rowley, MA, circa 1901

Subjects: Factories & Mills Logging & Lumber
Card type: Printed photo
Date: c. 1901 (Early)

Back of Dodge's Mill sawmill with stacked logs, Rowley, MA, circa 1901, c. 1901 printed photo postcard — Back

About this postcard

Dodge's Mill in Rowley, Massachusetts: a long, low, open-sided mill building with a broad gabled roof at the edge of the woods, its yard stacked with sawn planks at left and heaped with long raw logs in the foreground. Rowley is one of the older farming towns of Essex County, and its streams powered saw and grist mills from the colonial period onward, so a mill like this one turned the surrounding woodlots into lumber and board for local building. Small country sawmills of the kind were seasonal operations, worked when logs and water were available and the farm work slack.

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Condition	Good
Notes	Wide white margin at right; halftone screen visible; crease and light wear at upper right corner. No postmark. Undivided back with printed "POST CARD / THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE" and a "Place Stamp Here" box quoting one cent for United States and Island Possessions, Cuba, Canada, Mexico and two cents foreign — typical of the 1901–1907 undivided-back era. Card is unused and unaddressed; light soiling and a crease at the upper left corner.

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Good

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Wide white margin at right; halftone screen visible; crease and light wear at upper right corner. No postmark. Undivided back with printed "POST CARD / THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE" and a "Place Stamp Here" box quoting one cent for United States and Island Possessions, Cuba, Canada, Mexico and two cents foreign — typical of the 1901–1907 undivided-back era. Card is unused and unaddressed; light soiling and a crease at the upper left corner.

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Dodge's Mill sawmill with stacked logs, Rowley, MA, circa 1901, postcard, c. 1901. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/dodges-mill-sawmill-with-stacked-logs-rowley-ma-circa-1901. Accessed November 2, 2026.