Charles Pillsbury Allen was born in Princeton, Massachusetts in 1805 and spent his childhood in Sterling, Massachusetts. C.P. Allen moved to Nova Scotia to run his furniture and bucket factories in Fall River. Here he met and married Catherine Rudolph. The two settled on 500 acres of land where they built a home and hobby farm. Allen named his property ”Waverley” in reference to the novel Waverley by Sir Walter Scott and the area came to be known by the same name.
The Allen Collection contains many images, genealogical projects, documents, and furniture from the Allen factory.