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Statue of Deborah Sampson. The Town of Sharon was first settled as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 and was deemed the 2nd precinct of Stoughton in 1740. It was established as the district of Stoughtonham on June 21, 1765, incorporated as the Town of Stoughtonham on August 23, 1775, and was named Sharon on February 25, 1783, after Israel's Sharon plain, due to its high level of ...
Hampden Glazed Paper and Card Company: 1882: 100 Water Street: Design by D. H. & A. B. Tower, was last Holyoke mill still in use by the founding business, the Hampden Paper Company, until September 2020. 18: Japanese Tissue Mills/Perkins Mill: c. 1899 [23] 12 Crescent Street [9] Founded by the B. F. Perkins Company in 1899 as Japanese Tissue ...
As of 2012, Crane & Company continues to manufacture the paper for U.S. currency. [5] By 1840 Lee was the largest paper producer, and by Zenas Crane's death in 1845, Berkshire was the largest paper producing county in the United States. [6] The "Turkey" mill in Tyringham was built by Milton Ingersol in 1833 to produce paper from rags.
Holyoke had few inhabitants until the construction of the dam and the Holyoke Canal System in 1849 and the subsequent construction of water-powered mills, particularly paper mills, the first and last to operate in the city, being those of the Parsons Paper Company. At one point over 25 paper mills were in operation in the city. The Holyoke ...
ZIP code: 02067. Area code: 781: FIPS code: 25-60820: GNIS feature ID: 0612529: Sharon is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Sharon in Norfolk County ...
Oak Industries, Inc. was an American electronics company that manufactured a variety of products throughout seven decades in the 20th century. In existence from 1932 to 2000, the company's business lines primarily centered around electronic components and materials, though the company made a high-profile and ultimately failed extension into communications media in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Sharon Historic District is a historic district on both sides of N. Main Street from Post Office Square to School Street in Sharon, Massachusetts. The area includes the earliest formally laid out part of Sharon, when it was established as a parish of Stoughton in 1740. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
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