Saxony Station
Saxon City, or Carbon Black, was founded by Frederick Doerr in 1806. Carbon Black was the original name of Cabot. A carbon black plant was established in 1876, where the village got its name. The one brick and one wooden building of the carbon black plant burned in 1879 – 1880. They were replaced with brick buildings. Carbon black from the Cabot works was mostly used to make automobile tires. It was produced by incomplete burning of hydrocarbons oil from the fields near Great Belt and well drilled at Carbon Black in 1872.
Carbon Black, or Saxon Station, dates back to 1871, when W.S. Boyd constructed a hotel. In 1872, E.A. Helmbold began a store. In 1877, J.W. Maxwell came to Saxon Station. He found a thriving village consisting of the Krause & Helmbold store, of which he became a partner in 1889, and the homes of Alexander Douthett, Samuel Cooper, J.H. Clar, Henry Hoffman and John Howarth, superintendent of the Carbon Black Works. Theilo Krause lived in the store building. In addition, George Miller ran a hotel and J.H. Muder a cabinet making shop. Theodore Bedinger was the acting agent for the railroad, express, and telegraph companies, with T. Helmbold being the agent.
By 1883 the village had grown to one church, two stores, one shoemaker’s shop, one wagon, and L.H. Falkner’s blacksmith shop (1879), as well as a post office (1875) with, Theilo Krause as Postmaster and, of course, the carbon black plant.
In 1907, Carbon Black was changed to Cabot in honor of Harvard graduate Dr. Godfrey Lowell, Cabot founder of Cabot Academy. Not far from Cabot is the historic Coopers Cabin, administered for years by the late Beulah Frey, a scientist, environmentalist, and local historian. It is the oldest viable pioneer cabin in the township.