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Pocasset Manufacturing Company was a cotton textile mill located in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was located just west of Main Street across the second falls of the Quequechan River. It was organized on August 15, 1821, with $100,000 in capital. [1] The mill began operation in 1822, with Samuel Rodman of New Bedford as the principal owner.
1854 The Warren Mfg. Co. (previously, the American Horologue Co.) is renamed the Boston Watch Co. 1857 Boston Watch Co. fails; Royal E. Robbins and partners purchase the machinery and most of the inventory, but Edward Howard teams with lienholder Chas. Rice to remove about 500 watches in progress to Roxbury; Both Robbins and Howard claim ...
Pocasset MFG Co. "Bridge Mill" 1822: 1843: Pocasset Street: original L-shaped mill, destroyed in Great Fire of 1843; Granite Block built in this location 44: Pocasset MFG Co. "Satinet Mill" 1825: 1846: Pocasset Street: demolished for 1846 mill 45: Pocasset MFG Co. "Quequechan Mill" 1826: abt. 1880: Pocasset Street
Its most prominent feature is the former Haydenville Manufacturing Company premises, built in 1875 after a flood washed away the previous factory in 1874. This building located on Main Street ( Massachusetts Route 9 ), is now known as the Brass Works, and features elaborate Italianate and Victorian styling. [ 2 ]
Former Tremont Nail Company site, Wareham, Massachusetts The Tremont Nail Company was a nail manufacturing company located in Wareham, Massachusetts, from 1819 to 2006.The Tremont Nail brand was purchased by Acorn Manufacturing of Mansfield, Massachusetts, where it still produces cut nails and other products for restoration projects.
This mill was later extended in 1891, to increase spinning capacity to 41,000 spindles. By 1893, the company had acquired the adjacent Quequechan Mills (originally built as Robeson Print Works). [8] The Fall River Manufacturing Company property was acquired in 1905 by the Pocasset Manufacturing Company, and became known as that company's Mill ...
Aaron Willard (October 14, 1757 – May 20, 1844) [1] was an 18th and early 19th Century entrepreneur, an industrialist, and a designer of clocks who worked extensively at his Roxbury, Massachusetts, factory during the early years of the United States of America.
Dudley Station Historic District is a historic district on Washington, Warren, and Dudley Streets in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.The central feature of the district is Dudley Square station (now Nubian station), a Beaux Arts/French Renaissance structure designed by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow and built by the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy, a predecessor ...