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Boulton Brown Mill before the Fire of 1970
12022-08-22T15:12:38-07:00Sharon Trac18463b7eb46a08f80279d6d8c0c82cf35c23e50d411991Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum. 2022. "On February 7, 1970, Ritchie's Feed and Seed, located in the old Boulton Brown mill complex, caught fire." Facebook, April 5, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/Carletonplacemuseum/photos/a.173161679407401/5200952406628278/.plain2022-08-22T15:12:38-07:00Carleton Place Part 2Sharon Trac18463b7eb46a08f80279d6d8c0c82cf35c23e50d
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12022-08-22T15:12:57-07:00The Fire1plain2022-08-22T15:12:57-07:00The morning of Saturday, February 7, 1970 changed the former mill forever. A fire ripped through the 147-year-old mill causing a fire loss set at $100,000 with $40,000 worth of stock lost [9]. Most of the milling equipment as well as the grain elevator installed by the Browns had been ingulfed by the fire [10]. The fire was so large that Almonte firefighters that were at the scene had to raise the aerial ladder from their firetruck 80 feet above the fire when the ladder’s maximum height is 85 feet [11]. At the time, insurance claims would only partially cover what was lost and there was no decision whether or not the mill would be rebuilt [12] . The fire ultimately halted milling operations at the Boulton Brown Mill forever. Its significant loss due to the fire and too costly interventions to rebuild were abandoned and left to decay.
Footnotes 9. "Carleton Place Fire Loss Set at $100,000," The Ottawa Journal, February 20, 1970. 10. Ibid. 11. "At the Carleton Place Fire," https://lindaseccaspina.wordpress.com/tag/boulton-brown-mill/. 12. "Carleton Place Fire Loss Set at $100,000," The Ottawa Journal, February 20, 1970.
