Paul Revere Heritage Site

  • Also Known As: Revere Copper Company

  • Address: 4 Rolling Mill Way
  • Vicinity: Revolution Way
  • Type: Manufacturing facility
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1800/01/00 Paul Revere Founder Encouraged by the promise of a loan from the federal government, Paul Revere, buys a former gunpowder mill in Canton, where during the Revolutionary War, largely by his instrumentality and agency, the Colony and State had been supplied with powder.
1800/03/00 Harrison Gray Otis Life I have made the most improvements in that Branch of Metallurgy of any man in this State, if not in the United States. - Paul Revere to Harrison Gray Otis
1801/00/00 Paul Revere and Son Manufacturer Paul Revere establishes a copper rolling mill at a renovated gunpowder mill in Canton, Massachusetts, with son Joseph W Revere where he will become the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets as a commercially viable business.
1803/12/00 Joshua Humphreys Naval Architect We are gaining experience, .... Should I live and be able to take care of the Business for seven years to come I should not get to the Zenith. - Paul Revere to Joshua Humphreys
1804/10/09 Paul Revere and Son foundry (lost) on Lynn Street at the north part of Boston is seriously damaged in a severe gale. Not being repaired or occupied, foundry operations will be moved to the copper-mill in Canton while the headquarters will stay in Boston. New England's Storm of October 1804
1805/04/03 Paul Revere and Son Advertisement PAUL REVERE AND SON, At their BELL and CANNON FOUNDRY, At the North-part of Boston, CAST BELLS of all sizes, every kind of brass ORDNANCE, and every type of Composition Work for SHIPS, etc, at the shortest notice, Manufacture COPPER into SHEETS, BOLTS
1807/00/00 By 1807, Paul Revere makes $25,000 worth of improvements at his copper mill in Canton.
1807/00/00 Paul Revere and Son Supplier Beginning in 1807, the Revere mill in Canton, Massachusetts, provides heavy copper sheets to Robert Fulton to be used to manufacture boilers in many of his steamboats. Invention of the Steamboat
1807/05/07 Isaiah Thomas (publisher) Publisher CHURCH BELLS. PAUL REVERE AND SON, No 13, Lynn Street, North End, BOSTON, HAVE constantly for sale CHURCH and ACADEMY BELLS, of all sizes, which they will warrant equal to any made in Europe, or this country. - Ad in the Massachusetts Spy
1807/05/07 Paul Revere and Son Advertisement CHURCH BELLS. PAUL REVERE AND SON, No 13, Lynn Street, North End, BOSTON, HAVE constantly for sale CHURCH and ACADEMY BELLS, of all sizes, which they will warrant equal to any made in Europe, or this country. - Ad in the Massachusetts Spy
1811/00/00 Paul Revere Work At the age of 76, Paul Revere cast his last bell, retires from business and passes the day-to-day operations on to his son and grandson. 27 bells are known to exist which were cast during the period of his direct involvement at the foundry.
1828/06/12 Levi Lincoln Jr Governor Governor Levi Lincoln approves the Charter of Revere Copper. The named corporators are J W Revere and F W Lincoln.
1828/07/12 Revere Copper Company Established 'James Davis and Son' and 'Paul Revere and Son' are incorporated as 'The Revere Copper Company'. Officers include Joseph W Revere, Fredric Walker Lincoln, James Davis and James Davis Jr.
1843/00/00 Paul Revere and Son Foundry Between 1792 and 1843, the Revere foundry cast over 900 bells. 146 are known to still exist.
1850/00/00 Joseph Warren Revere (Business) Owner A new brick mill is erected for manufacturing yellow sheathing metal for the bottom of ships.
1862/00/00 Revere Copper Company Foundry The Revere Copper Company produces Napoleon Gun No 1 for United States Army. Revere Copper Company Napoleon Gun No 1
1862/12/00 Revere Copper Company Manufacturer In 1862, the Revere Copper Company produces eighty twelve-pound brass canons for the government. The guns weigh on average 1,230 ponds and cost about $600 each.
1863/00/00 Revere Copper Company Foundry The Revere Copper Company produces Napoleon Gun No 255 for United States Army. Revere Copper Company Napoleon Gun No 255

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Particulars for Paul Revere Heritage Site:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Building Type Barn
Sight Category Building
Art Material Copper
Structure Attribute Foundry
Historic Use Manufacturing facility
Area of Significance Military
Historic Use Secondary structure




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