Connecticut Parker Collectors

[Dean Romig]

I believe it was 1974 when a fire destroyed some of the main Charles Parker Co. buildings.... much like the fire two days ago that destroyed a huge old brick & wood manufactory building in Lawrence MA, next town north of me. The Merrimack River, along which this building stood, during the last two centuries, was the source of power for manufacturing from Concord, NH, Manchester, NH, Dracut, MA, Lawrence, MA, Haverhill, MA, Amesbury, MA, and finally to Newburyport, MA where the mighty river meets the Atlantic.