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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 494
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 05:54 pm: | 
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Palmer started in Mianus, Ct. They talked of a location that used water power. I think most of us thought that it was at the Dam that is 3/4th of a mile above the Cos Cob, Ct location. After reading Dick Days comments about it being 2 or 3 miles above the Cos Cob location I started digging on the net with satelite pics and topo maps.
The dam that you can see from I95 that is just above the Cos Cob location was built by the New Haven RR in aprox 1905 to supply water for their power plant that is south of the tracks just below the Palmer Cos Cob plant. By 1905 Palmer was in Cos Cob so it most likely isn't that dam. From what I can find on the net there was only 1 other dam on the Mianus River. It is about 3 miles upstream from the Cos Cob location.
Pics are as follows:
1 the Palmer upper plant from one of their ads
2 aerial photo from 1934 showing what I assume was at one time the Palmer Upper works.
These are small size to fit here. Looking at the large versions there are a lot of similarities. I am ASSUMING that this is the upper location.
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Richard A. Day Jr.
Senior Member
Username: richardday
Post Number: 420
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 08:39 pm: |
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I think Ernie has shown that the Upper Works were not where Henry Zerbarini showed me by by the lower dam but have to have been at the next dam up river. Not only does the photo of the Upper Works show it was on the left hand end of the dam it was above the dam. The terrain at the downstream dam is such that no plant of the size indicated in the Upper Works photo could possibly be located there. Couple that with a 1905 dam construction date Palmer built their new boat shop in 1901 on the land of the old Palmer and Duff shipyard in Cos Cob. They started the new Machine shop in 1907 along side the boat shop and they were completely out of the Upper Works by 1910. Hopefully the Greenwich Historical society can come up with photos of the Upper Works. in its days of operation. |
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