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According to the district's 1987 nomination document: The district is historically significant for two reasons. First its core encompasses the extensive surviving portions of the industrial complex developed by the former Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the nation's foremost late 19th- and early 20th-century armament manufacturers.
River Rouge Factory Tour; Photos from the Rouge Steel mill "Big Generator for Auto Plant Adds to Giant Power". Popular Mechanics: 374. September 1937. A film clip "The Source of the Ford Car Part 1 ca. 1932" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive; A film clip "Tour Through The Rouge Plant ca. 1939" is available for viewing at the ...
Union Cotton Factory: 1813: 1838: Cook Pond: field stone: 4th cotton mill in city; burned in 1838, site of Laurel Lake Mills 71: Union Mill No.3: 1877: abt. 1965: Pleasant Street: red brick: demolished in 1960s for Interstate 195. 72: Union Mill No.4: 1895: after 1966: Pleasant Street: red brick: built as an addition to Mill No. 2; demolished ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
The Gary Works is a major steel mill in Gary, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan.For many years, the Gary Works was the world's largest steel mill, and it remains the largest integrated mill in North America. [1]
Studebaker bought the factory in 1911, using it to assemble cars until 1933. The building was sold in 1936, going through a series of owners for the rest of the 20th century before becoming a museum in 2001. The Piquette Avenue Plant is the oldest purpose-built automotive factory building open to the public.
The arts district occupies the former carpet mills factory buildings located in the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills Historic District. Its boundaries lie from Lake Avenue to the north and Ashburton Avenue to the south, and to Nepperhan Avenue to the west, extending to Saw Mill River Road to the east, encompassing the following buildings:
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company Historians date the oldest photograph to 1826 France. At least that's the oldest one that we know of today. That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started ...