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  2. Category:Textile mills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Warrenton Woolen Mill; Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site; Waucantuck Mill Complex; Wilcox, Crittenden Mill; Willard Manufacturing Company Building; William Clark Company Thread Mill; Winooski Falls Mill District; Worcester Bleach and Dye Works; Worcester Corset Company Factory

  3. Faribault Woolen Mill Company - Wikipedia

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    The plant closed in 2009, but reopened in September 2011 under new private ownership. At the time it closed in 2009, Faribault Woolen Mills produced more than half of the new wool blankets made in the United States and was one of the few remaining woolen mills in the country. [citation needed]

  4. American Woolen Company - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, fashions changed with the introduction of polyester and rayon, and demand for worsted wool plummeted by the mid-1920s. [3] The two world wars were a boon to the AWC, keeping the company prosperous into 1945. American Woolen Company ranked 51st among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production ...

  5. Winthrop Mills Company - Wikipedia

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    The Winthrop Mills Company is a historic textile mill complex at 149-151 Main Street in Winthrop, Maine.Developed mainly between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, it was the nation's largest manufacturer of woolen blankets for many years, and a major local employer for about 150 years.

  6. Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site

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    The community was effectively self-sufficient, the mill producing yarn and wool cloth. The mill operated at capacity until 1886, two years after Watkins' death. From 1886 to the turn of the twentieth century production declined. Nearly all of the mill machinery has been preserved, including a 65-horsepower steam engine that powered the factory. [6]

  7. Globe Woolen Company Mills - Wikipedia

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    Globe Woolen Company Mills is a historic woolen mill complex and national historic district located at Utica, Oneida County, New York.It encompasses four contributing components of an intact mill complex: the Woolen Mill Grouping (1872-1873); Storehouse #2 (1872-1873); Storehouse #3 (1872-1873); and the Worsted Mill Grouping (1886).

  8. Hamilton Woolen Company Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Hamilton Woolen Company Historic District encompasses the well preserved "Big Mill" complex of the Hamilton Woolen Company, built in the mid 19th century. Located at the confluence of McKinstry Brook and the Quinebaug River in central Southbridge, Massachusetts, the complex consists of a cluster of mill buildings and a rare collection of 1830s brick mill worker housing units located nearby ...

  9. Milford Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    The Milford Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company is a historic mill complex at 2 Bridge Street in the center of Milford, New Hampshire. Developed between 1813 and World War I , it is one of the few surviving mill complexes in Milford, whose name is derived in part from "mill".