It's all about the 90-foot, $100K+ monument to the Leonard family and their ironworks that never got built.
It was a detective story for me, and I'm not sure I got it right. But I'm close, I hope.
James Leonard lived and worked in Taunton and Raynham, but his brother and other family members launched an ironworks, the Rowley Village Forge Site, in modern-day Boxford, near my home on the North Shore.
I did a walking tour here.
In 2014, I also did a picture tour of the Saugus Ironworks here. James and Henry worked at "Hammerstimith," its colonial name, before heading south to Raynham and north to Boxford.
Meanwhile, I walked the dry river bed of the Rio Grande yesterday. Pictures to follow.
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