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    George Brown's Sons Cotton and Woolen Mill, now known as the Sassafras Alley Apartments, is an historic mill complex which is located in Mount Joy, Lancaster...
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    A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the...
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    Indian and Alaska Native: 20 Identified by two or more: 170 Central Hotel Donegal Mills Plantation George Brown's Sons Cotton and Woolen Mill Nissly Swiss...
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    Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices of Cotton, Woolen, Silk, and Linen Manufacturers in the Colonial Period. Vol. I. The...
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  • as the Saugus Woolen Manufacturing Co. George Parsons, one of Edward Pranker's grandsons, served as the company's president. The mill operated under...
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    replaced by a woolen mill that operated from 1849 until 1863, when it burned. The Plunkett & Barber Co. Mill, built in 1866, served as a cotton mill until 1930...
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    properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. There are 209 properties and districts...
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  • (Central Woolen) ran 24/7 making Civil War cloth. North Uxbridge was home to Richard Sayle's Rivulet Mill, and to Clapp's 1810 Cotton Mill. Blanchard's...
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    Company and Boott Cotton Mill, textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. And in 1857, he became director of The Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing...
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    Mother Brook (category Transportation buildings and structures in Norfolk County, Massachusetts)
    the owner of the first mill, George Bird, who began using the whole site to manufacture paper. In 1823 it switched to cotton, using the machinery of...
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    textile factories. Knoxville Woolen Mills, the city's first major textile manufacturer, was founded in 1884. Brookside Mills was organized in November 1885...
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    successful even in the hard times of 1812 to 1815, and afterwards engaged particularly in selling woolen and cotton goods on commission. In 1818, A. & A. Lawrence...
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    which extended into neighboring Massachusetts, (Daniel Day's Woolen Mill, 1809 at Uxbridge), and became one of the earliest industrialized region in the United...
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    the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, and moved back to Eden after graduation. He went to work at Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mills in Leaksville...
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  • Samuel Brannan (Gold Rush figure) Brown's was the name of North Fork, California – Milton Brown (early settler) Brown's Mill was the name of Stafford, Humboldt...
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  • Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices of Cotton, Woolen, Silk, and Linen Manufacturers in the Colonial Period. (1893) Vol...
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    Haverhill, Massachusetts (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    with sawmills and gristmills run by water power. In the 18th and 19th century, Haverhill developed woolen mills, tanneries, shipping and shipbuilding....
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    Cashmere wool (category Economy of Jammu and Kashmir)
    handmade shawls of Kashmir. References to woolen shawls appear in texts surviving from between the 3rd century BC and the 11th century AD. However, a popular...
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    Building 1884-2009 Evolution of Building The building operated as a cotton mill beginning in 1866 for nearly two decades, before returning to manufacturing...
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    the river's west bank included woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes, and wood-planing. Minneapolis supplied...
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    were 15 cotton spinning mills in operation. These cotton spinning mills were all small operations, typically employing fewer than 50 people, and most used...
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    Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices of Cotton, Woolen, Silk, and Linen Manufacturers in the Colonial Period. Vol. I. pg...
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    Liverpool (category Port cities and towns of the Irish Sea)
    imported much of the cotton required by the neighbouring Lancashire textile mills, and became a major departure point for English and Irish emigrants to...
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    primarily to the Northeast; cotton cloth production was the leading industry, with the manufacture of shoes, woolen clothing, and machinery also expanding...
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    from indigo and coffee to pepper and spices, and was one of the state's earliest financiers, backing everything from cotton and woolen mills to railroads...
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    cloth on hand looms. The first woolen mill, and the second textile mill in the Blackstone Valley, was a "wool carding mill", established in 1810 by Daniel...
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    from New Orleans...." However, Butler's mills in Lowell, which produced woolen goods and were not hampered by cotton shortages, were economically successful...
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    Indiana. By 1826 the Harmonists had woolen and cotton mills in operation as well as a steam-operated grain mill. The Harmonist society also ran a wine...
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    numerous paper mills, producing 80% of the writing paper used in the United States, as well as having the largest silk, and alpaca wool mills in the world...
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    Inca Empire (category States and territories established in 1438)
    also symbolized cultural and political status and power. Cumbi was the fine, tapestry-woven woolen cloth that was produced and necessary for the creation...
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