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For decades, Waterbury has been known as the Brass Capital, despite a decline in manufacturing over time. The building that housed the museum was the former executive office of the Scovill Manufacturing Company and Century Brass Company, and is the only remaining building of the 44-acre (180,000 m 2 ) brass mill complex. [ 5 ]
Also in 1993, the Timex Factory at Dundee in the UK, was the site of a major industrial strike. [33] In 1994, Timex acquired the Nautica Watches license and introduced Timex Data Link. The Data Link PDA-type watch could receive contact and scheduling information from a sequence in a computer monitor's light using software developed with ...
The Waterbury Clock Company factory is a historic complex of factory buildings in Waterbury, Connecticut. Development began in 1873, with the extensive plant serving as the company's main manufacturing facility and headquarters until 1944.
Dec. 25—MANCHESTER — Shawn Dickensheets, owner of the recently closed vegan and vegetarian-based restaurant 21 Oak, said farewell to some of his most loyal customers on Friday as they stopped ...
History of Wallingford, Conn., from Its Settlement in 1670 to the Present Time, Including Meriden, which was One of Its Parishes until 1806, and Cheshire, which was Incorporated in 1780. Meriden, CT: Charles Henry Stanley Davis. Gillespie, Charles Bancroft (1895). Souvenir History of Wallingford, Connecticut, 1895. New Haven, CT: Journal ...
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Lechmere was originally planned as the fourth anchor, [5] but it never opened due to parent company Montgomery Ward closing the chain in 1997, the same year the mall opened. [ 6 ] Numerous former tenants include Shaw’s Supermarket , Steve & Barry's , Hometown Buffet and OfficeMax , which closed in 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2014 respectively.
By 1879, a second factory was opened in Brooklyn, New York and by June 1880 employed 360 workers, while the Connecticut factory continued producing clocks as well with a workforce of 100 men and 25 women. Hence, clocks marked "Connecticut" were generally produced before 1879, while those marked "New York" were all produced after 1880.