MANCHAUG 200TH CELEBRATION

On Saturday, September 26, 2026 over 50 people from Manchaug and beyond gathered to celebrate and reminisce about the Village. Their memories, and yours, will help us to record Manchaug's Story for future generations. 
In 1826, Providence merchants, Jonathan Congdon, Samuel Congdon, and Randall H. Greene, recognizing the potential of the Mumford River with its “great and rapid fall” of eighty-three feet in less than one-quarter of a mile for development of manufacturing, purchased and cleared land adjacent to the Mumford River from Aaron Elliot and Simeon Morse in 1826, and another tract from Morse in 1840, assembling the acreage upon which Manchaug Village was developed. This cotton-manufacturing industry continued until 1922.

​Fires, floods, and bankruptcy, shaped the Village which remains today.
If you were unable to attend, please share your own memories using the Manchaug Memories Questionnaire below. 

Memories can be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to Sutton Historical Society, Inc, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA  01590
AMAZING INTERNET FIND!!
The below photos of Manchaug were recently 
"stumbled upon" during an internet search.
Some great images circa 1970s!!!
PHOTO CREDIT:
Industrial Archaeology Image Archive © 2026 by Michigan Technological University Department of Social Sciences
Licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0 

Department of Social Sciences 
Michigan Technological University 
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Houghton, Michigan, 49931 
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