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Essex Company Machine Shop, also known as Stone Mill or the Lawrence Machine Shop, is a historic machine shop on Union Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts. It was built in 1846 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The Essex Company was incorporated on March 20, 1845, for the purpose of creating a manufacturing town on the Merrimack River. The town eventually became Lawrence. To attract manufacturers, the Essex Company dammed the river with the Great Stone Dam and created a canal to provide a power source for future businesses. The machine shop was created at the head of the canal as part of a foundry to service the Essex Company and tenant manufacturers. The facility consisted of the machine shop, a foundry, a forge shop containing 32 forges, and a chimney connected via an underground flue to the forges. The entire complex was warmed by steam and had power provided by two Fourneyron water turbines. A branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad encircled the complex to allow for delivery of raw materials and coal. In 1850, the complex employed 400 but was designed with the capacity to employ 800-1000 workers. The machine shop building is one of the few remaining structures from the original Essex Company site. It is 404 feet (123 m) long and 64 feet (20 m) wide. It is four stories high and was designed to allow access to steam locomotives. The other surviving structure is the 142' (43 m) high chimney. National Register of Historic Places listings in Lawrence, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts
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When was Essex Company Machine Shop listed on the National Register?
Essex Company Machine Shop was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1972.
What type of historic resource is Essex Company Machine Shop?
Essex Company Machine Shop is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Essex Company Machine Shop is recorded as the early_republic era, specifically around 1846.
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