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WestPoint Home, Inc. as it is known today is the result of the mergers of three of the oldest companies in the textile industry: J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc. (est. 1813 in Massachusetts incorporated 1899), Pepperell Manufacturing Company (est. 1851 in Maine), and West Point Manufacturing Company (est. 1880 in Georgia). [4]
Stock at this point was valued at $1.4 million. [7] In 1900, Bibb bought the Columbus Power Company. The Columbus Power Company included a spindle mill and a dam that generated power for the mill. In 1906, the power company portion was sold, but the mill and 51 acres around the mill were retained. [8]
Copps Department Store (Stevens Point), their department stores closed 1984, when Copps decided to shift their focus over to their supermarkets. Gimbels , converted to Marshall Field's then one former Gimbels location to Macy's 2006. Hoff Department Store (Mount Horeb) closed 1984; H.C. Prange Co. , sold to Younkers in 1992
J.P. Stevens may refer to: J.P. Stevens Textile Corporation, a constituent corporation of WestPoint Home; J.P. Stevens High School, named after the founder of the above; John Paul Stevens (1920-2019) American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; John Peters Stevens, American textile industrialist
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In 1888, West Point Mill Company purchased a share of Chisolm's Mill. In 1894, West Point and Bennett's Mill combined and bought Chisolm's Mill, which was closed. Rice production continued to fall. West Point Mill was closed in 1920, and the company began to sell its assets. Around 1925, the mill's steam engine was sold to the Henry Ford Museum ...
A Diamond in the North, a Minocqua-based boutique, is opening a second location March 5 at 209 Division St. in Stevens Point. The boutique will offer Kulani Kinis brand swimwear, clothing ...
The mill had a store and was a focal point for trade in the area. Cash was scarce in the area after the Civil War and sheep were abundant, so wool became the most common currency in the local barter economy. The Gwyn Mill had to accept wool in trade, cart it 60 miles away in order to sell the raw fiber which was then sent by rail to distant mills.