From Dave Brigham:
From 1818-1888 on this site along what is now Monsignor O'Brien Highway in East Cambridge, Mass., the New England Glass Company operated a mill. By 1849 the company was the largest in the glass industry, with 500 employees, according to this post at The Antiquarian. The company closed in 1888 after some lean years and a strike, and moved to Toledo, Ohio. The property was sold a year later; in 1921 the factory's smokestack was torn down. In 1925 the current building on the site was constructed as offices for the Boston & Maine Railroad, according to the web site for the Glass Factory Condominiums, which were developed in 1998 (and updated in 2003). I'm happy somebody thought to memorialize this piece of history.
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