“On Worcester Turnpike, Rosemary Brook—now Longfellow Pond—was dammed and a mill built by Charles Pettee in 1815 for a nail factory. A part of the land around the brook belonged to the Ephraim Ware estate, which had been left in part to the West Parish. And in behalf of the church Benjamin Slack sold it to Bice in 1825. In 1833 the town of Needham sold to Isaac Keyes thirteen acres on Worcester Street. Paper manufacturing was carried on successively by Thomas Rice, Keyes, and Luther Crane who bought out Keyes in 1836. Later Nathan Longfellow bought them out. The Cranes—Luther and Zenas—manufactured green paper shades and Longfellow paper hangings.”

Reference Data:
History of the Town of Wellesley, Massachusette, by Joseph Emery Fiske, 1917, page 25