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Beatty's Mills Factory Building, also known as Powell Mills, is a historic textile mill in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1886, and is a five-story, red brick building in the Italianate style. It was part of a complex of five buildings and is the only remaining structure.
The Grundy Mills Complex or Bristol Worsted Mills, which is located in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, includes thirteen textile mill buildings that were erected by the William H. Grundy Co. between 1876 and 1930. This complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]
The plant is a five-story, U-shaped, reinforced concrete building that sits on a raised basement. The Steel Heddle Manufacturing Company manufactured heddles and other textile loom accessories. Its Philadelphia plant remained in operation until 1983. [2] This complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [1]
Name City Industry ACTS Retirement-Life Communities [3]: West Point, PA: healthcare Aria Health [4]: Philadelphia: healthcare Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The H.W. Butterworth and Sons Company Building, now known as 2424 Studios, is an historic factory building which is located in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010 [ 1 ] and was converted into studios in 2011.
The silk industry in Pennsylvania peaked in the late 1920s due to cheap labor, mainly from immigrant workers' children and wives. However, after the Great Depression, increasing labor unrest and competition from other textile industries began to affect the silk industry locally and nationally. By 1953, Allentown had become the number one silk ...
More than 40 textile companies, chemical manufacturers and other industries have for years polluted Columbia’s municipal water supply with “forever chemicals,” a class of man-made compounds ...
Dobson Mills is a historic industrial complex and national historic district located in the Hunting Park Industrial Area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It encompasses 19 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures.