• Source: FBG-Sweet's

• Milton, MA
• Aug 1904
• Engineers: Dean & Main (Boston)
• Probably rebuilt in 1950s

This project was a concrete dam, built as part of a power overhaul for a noted chocolate maker.

A new powerhouse, probably coal-fired, was built the next year with two 200-foot smokestacks and three boilers to supplement this upgraded hydro-power system.

• Sweet's Catalogue of Building Construction advertisement, 1909

• A dam has stood at this spot since 1639, but the current concrete structure is believed to be a 1950s replacement for FBG's work.
• This is one of many dams in the northeast under consideration for removal, to return rivers to a more natural state for fish and wildlife. Many dams built by towns and companies for power and mill use, sometimes no more than a mile apart, have been demolished in recent decades.
• Google Maps aerial view. The brick buildings in view are almost entirely those of the Walter Baker plant, mostly converted to condos and mixed use.

• System ad, Nov 1907:

* Engineering Record, 6 Aug 1904:
fbg-baker-dam-er-6-aug-1904.pdf

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baker_%26_Company
• https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5W4Q
• https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2004/3083/