He used the shop for making shovels, discontinuing the manufacture of hoes.ġ817 – Oliver Ames made the first back-strapped shovels.ġ823 – Oliver Ames built a dam and shop in South Braintree as an adjunct to his North Easton plant.ġ825 – Oliver Ames, together with the owners of other water powers on the Queset River, raised and enlarged the Long Pond dam to conserve more water.
In association with Asa Waters he also manufactured hoes in Easton near the Hoe Shop Dam behind the Unity Church Cemetery.ġ813 – Oliver Ames bought the land in Easton on which he now began to build his homestead, 25 Main Street, together with several large adjacent parcels.ġ814 – Owing to the depression as a result of the War of 1812, the Plymouth Iron Works closed and Oliver Ames returned to North Easton.ġ815 – Oliver Ames bought the shop at Hoe Shop Pond, which had been manufacturing hoes under the firm name of Ames, Waters & Co. He continued the shovel-making plants at North Easton and West Bridgewater. He lived in the “Long House” nearby (now numbered 120-122 Summer Street) and here his third son, Oliver, was born. Oliver Ames also manufactured cotton-spinning machinery and other machines at the Plymouth Works. Their forges were on Town Brook above the lowest dam, which still exists on Summer Street. Captain John Ames died during this year, on July 17, in West Bridgewater, and Oliver inherited the forge and land there.ġ807 – Oliver Ames moved to Plymouth, Mass., and for seven years supervised the shovel-making plant of the Plymouth Iron Works. No doubt he made shovels as early as 1803, and hauled them to Boston, (himself). Randall charged him $1.00 for carting six dozen shovels to Boston. The famous Ames bend was made by putting the handles in the dam.ġ805 – The first recorded date of making shovels in North Easton is April 17 when a Mr. He used the forge as a shovel shop and the nail-shop for making shovel and hoe handles. This dam and the shops had been built in 1792-3. The site of his forge and adjoining land are now the West Bridgewater War Memorial Park.ġ779 – Oliver Ames, youngest son of Captain John Ames, was born in West Bridgewater on April 13.ġ803 – Oliver Ames came to Easton, and on August 1, bought for $1600 a forge, nail-making shop, dwelling house, and several pieces of land near the Shovel Shop Dam on Pond Street. AMES SHOVEL COMPANY CHRONOLOGY (Courtesy Easton Historical Society, 2004)ġ774? – The year is uncertain, but sometime before 1776, Captain John Ames began the manufacture of shovels on Town River in West Bridgewater.
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