June 29, 2022
by Melanie Gilbert | May 16, 2023 | The Lowell Sun
BILLERICA — Bob Martin, the owner of the Talbot Mills Dam, doesn’t want the dam. Never has.But he can’t get anyone to take it off his hands. The current masonary and granite-cut dam was built in 1828, and the maintianence, repairs, and liabilities asscoiated with the structure increase yearly.
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