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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.
Cheney's brother Seth Wells Cheney was an artist, married to writer Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney. His brother John Cheney, a portrait engraver, was praised by curator S. R. Koehler at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, although interest in line engraving was in decline at that time. [3] Ward's brothers who joined him at Cheney Brothers were: [1]
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 Brothers was the first economic-development project Pickett worked on after being elected in 2020. "On a personal note, this was the first project that the EDC brought me in on," Pickett said.
As home to the Cheney family silk fortune, Manchester was a center of the American silk industry from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, and was an integral component of not only the economy but success of the town. Today, the Cheney Brothers Historic District [12] showcases mills refurbished as apartments and includes nearby museums.
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.
Horace B. Cheney, 1917. Horace Bushnell Cheney (May 19, 1868 – August 15, 1938) was an American administrator, who was general manager and vice-president of Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company, [1] in the nowadays called 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]