A Millers Falls Home Page

Millers Falls scrapers This page serves as the directory to an encyclopedic study of the Millers Falls Company for the years in which it was located in Massachusetts. The site features a company history, biographies of figures associated with the business, guides to some of the hand-powered tools it manufactured and an illustrated list of publications distributed by the manufacturer. A Massachusetts-based entity until 1982, the firm was incorporated as the Millers Falls Manufacturing Company in 1868, was renamed the Millers Falls Company in 1872 and became a division of the Ingersoll-Rand Company in 1962. Operations were relocated to New Jersey in 1982 following a leveraged buyout.

Although the company's hand-powered woodworking tools are emphasized here, the firm manufactured and distributed precision tools, mechanics' tools and power tools as well. The site's emphasis on hand tools can be deceiving, and those using these pages need to be aware that for the last forty years of its existence, the company was dependent on the success of its its electric tools. The pages at oldtoolheaven.com also contain information on a number of hardware businesses that were either absorbed by the Millers Falls Falls Company or affiliated with it in some way. Notable among these are the Goodell-Pratt Company, the Langdon Mitre Box Company, and the various enterprises of Charles H. Amidon and Quimby S. Backus.

The product of thirteen years' research, the site is revised as new information comes to light. The author, Randy Roeder, has been an academic librarian for nearly three decades and has written a half dozen tool-related articles for the Gristmill, the journal of the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association. He continues to research the Millers Falls Company, its predecessors and the businesses related to it.