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Wood became a philanthropist for northern New York state through his Charles R. Wood Foundation, donating money to libraries, hospitals and providing seed money for a theater in downtown Glens Falls, New York, which was later named for him, as well as Charles R. Wood Park, a nature park and restored wetland area on the site of Gaslight Village.
Harden Furniture (officially Harden Furniture, Inc.) was a privately owned furniture manufacturer based in McConnellsville in Oneida County, New York.It has been the oldest furniture manufacturer in the United States.
The New York State Museum. 2001. Archived from the original on 2015-10-30. To celebrate the 1993 bicentennial of the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, the New York State Museum sponsored the recreation of a batteau, Discovery, that was navigated and displayed around the state. The attempt to navigate upstream along Wood Creek is ...
W. & J. Sloane advertisement from September 1902. W. & J. Sloane, (W&J Sloane, Sloane's), was a chain of furniture stores that originated from a luxury furniture and rug store in New York City that catered to the prominent, including the White House and the Breakers, and wealthy, including the Rockefeller, Whitney, and Vanderbilt families.
The American Woolen Company was established in 1899 under the leadership of William M. Wood and his father-in-law Frederick Ayer through the consolidation of eight financially troubled New England woolen mills. At the company's height in the 1920s, it owned and operated 60 woolen mills across New England.
It was reported afterwards that New York's Department of Transportation had accelerated the process of designing such a connection. [5] On Black Friday 2007, Woodbury Common held its second annual Midnight Madness attracting more shoppers than the roads could handle. Traffic at one time was held up for 15 miles (24 km) on the New York State ...
The Ansonia Clock Company was a clock manufacturing business founded in Ansonia, Connecticut, in 1851 and which moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1878. The company has produced hundreds of different clock models, including Gingerbread, Porcelain, and Crystal Regulator styles. The business shut down in 2006.
By the 1890s, the Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Company was the largest farm machinery manufacturer in the world, taking up 85 acres (340,000 m2) on the west bank of the river. The Wood Company closed in 1924, mainly due to the introduction of John Deere's revolutionary self propelled farm equipment.