Dexter’s founder Judge Samuel Dexter had built the gristmill in 1844. Dexter had already built a dam and established a water-powered sawmill on the west side of the mill creek. Ownership of the ...
The steamer Pilgrim, of the Fall River Line, which is laid up here for the Winter, was run into this morning by the United States revenue cutter Samuel Dexter and had one of her staterooms crushed ...