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The Cheney Brothers Historic District was a center of the silk industry in Manchester, Connecticut, in the late 19th and early 20th century.The 175-acre (71 ha) district includes over 275 mill buildings, workers houses, churches, schools and Cheney family mansions.
The Manchester Historic District encompasses a historic planned industrial and residential area of Manchester, Connecticut.Located west of the town's Main Street area, the district includes most of the Cheney Brothers Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District covering the silk manufacturing mills, worker housing, and owner residences of the Cheney family, as well as other ...
Cheney was principal founder of the house of Cheney Brothers and was most active in its business management. He entered the dry goods business in Providence, Rhode Island, with his brother Charles. When Charles moved to Ohio, Ward returned to South Manchester and found several brothers raising a Chinese mulberry, Morus multicaulis.
The Cheney Homestead Museum is an eighteenth-century house of the founders of the Cheney Brothers Silk Company. On exhibit are examples of period furniture and artwork. [22] Also on site is the one-room Keeney Schoolhouse dating from 1751. [23] Wickham Park, a non-profit private foundation, is located on Manchester and East Hartford property.
Howell Cheney (January 1, 1870, Hartford, Connecticut – August 20, 1957) was a member of the Cheney silk manufacturing dynasty. The Cheneys had long been the first family of Manchester, Connecticut. Their mill buildings, workers residences and family mansions form the Cheney Brothers Historic District.
Mills of the Cheney Brothers along Hop Brook, Manchester, around 1876 Right-of-Way and Track Map, November 1932. The incorporation of the railroad occurred on 30 May 1866, [2] and three years later, the Cheney brothers (known at the time for their success in the silk industry) finished construction. [3]
The 1.2-million square-foot warehouse distribution facility was to join Cheney Brothers, Amazon and FedEx. Project Green was slated for Sansone Group's Legacy Park in Tradition. The 1.2-million ...
The Cheney Building was constructed 1875–1876 for the Cheney Brothers silk manufacturers in Manchester, Connecticut. It was originally a multipurpose structure with five small shops on the ground floor, and offices and apartments above. For many years it housed Brown Thomson's department store, and later the G. Fox and Company. As of 2007, it ...