{"id":1645,"date":"2014-06-10T09:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/?page_id=1645"},"modified":"2014-07-10T11:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:50:34","slug":"charles-pillsbury-allen-and-industry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/?page_id=1645","title":{"rendered":"Charles Pillsbury Allen and Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwaverleycommunity.ca%2F%3Fpage_id%3D1645&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #888888;\">About thirty years before gold was discovered in Waverley there was a small industry of furniture making in this area. Charles P. Allen, a Halifax furniture dealer, set up a lathe in Fall River for manufacturing chair legs. The lathe was driven by a water wheel that was situated on the falls below Miller Lake. At first, the factory produced only chairs, and Allen was able to sell these at a lower price than chairs imported to Halifax from Boston. Later, he manufactured other types of furniture including settees and benches, and also had a bucket factory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888; font-size: small;\">\u00a0In 1847, Allen bought 700 acres of land at the present site of Waverley for fifty pounds. He made his home on this land near where Lakes Thomas and William meet. Charles P. Allen named his property &#8220;Waverley&#8221; after his favorite author&#8217;s works, Sir Walter Scott&#8217;s <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Waverley Novels<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Allen had ten children whose names are recorded in the family bible. One of their daughters, Ellen, married Cornelius Blois.\u00a0 Mr. Blois, as a young boy, worked with C.P. Allen and had lived with the Allen family in Waverley.\u00a0Cornelius Blois was one of the discoverers of gold in Waverley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888; font-size: small;\">When he married Ellen Allen in 1866, he was the Lieutenant in command of the militia at Waverley.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwaverleycommunity.ca%2F%3Fpage_id%3D1645&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About thirty years before gold was discovered in Waverley there was a small industry of furniture making in this area. Charles P. Allen, a Halifax furniture dealer, set up a lathe in Fall River for manufacturing chair legs. The lathe was driven by a water wheel that was situated on the falls below Miller Lake. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1645\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waverleycommunity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}