File:Stone House-Blackstone Manufacturing Company.JPG

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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 95001038.

Date Taken on 25 September 2012, 16:44:53
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Author C.S. Imming
Camera location42° 00′ 58″ N, 71° 32′ 41″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

In 1804, a company by the name of Blackstone Manufacturing Company (BMC) purchased 254 acres of land in what was called the South Parish of Mendon. This land would eventually be incorporated as part of the Town of Blackstone. During the 1800s the company opened for business using the Stone House as its textile mill.

In the late 1950s Earl Tupper purchased all of the land. He used the facility for his newly invented Tupperware products which were stored in the Stone House.

Earl Tupper built a recreation park on 12 of the acres of land to be enjoyed by his employees and their families. In the late 1980′s, Tupper sold the park to Blackstone Smithfield Corporation and it would remain virtually abandoned from 1988 until 1995.

Now part of the Blackstone Valley Boys and Girls Club facilities.


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