Greenfield Tool Company Wooden moulding plane of James Millington, c. 1880

Name/Title

Greenfield Tool Company Wooden moulding plane of James Millington, c. 1880

Entry/Object ID

1984.20.1

Description

ACC. NO. 84.20.1 SUBJECT CATEGORY: Tools, Carpenter DATE OR PERIOD: c. 1880 OBJECT: Wooden moulding plane DESCRIPTION: Made of beech; marked Greenfield Tool Company, Greenfield, Massachusetts, No. 338 HISTORY OF OBJECT: Hand tool of James Millington, pioneer resident of Alameda, who came here in C. 1854 and was responsible for building the first schoolhouse in Alameda (at the old Lincoln School site), called Alameda School and which eventually became Wilson and then Lincoln. He later became City Clerk and died in 1906. His son, Frank Millington, was an early Alameda fireman. ACQUIRED FROM: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome R. Lanzit, DATE: August 18, 1984