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  2. Draper Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Between 1868 and 1887 George Draper became the leader and driving force behind the company started by his father years before. After Ebenezer's retirement in 1868, the company ventured into and made improvements the developing sector of ring spinning. By 1887, George Draper owned the patent rights or controlled the sale of 12 named varieties of ...

  3. Marlborough Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The ruins of the Great Northern Portland Cement Company plant and the nearby town of Marlborough are spread over an 80-acre (32 ha) plot of land. [2] Marlborough once contained 72 houses, an opera house, school and post office, and an 88-room hotel.

  4. List of mills in Lancashire - Wikipedia

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    Notes: Talbot Spinning & Weaving Co. Diversified into plastics production after the decline of the cotton industry in the post-war period. Spinning Division closed and demolished in 1989. Weaving division ceased production in 2000 and demolished in 2002. Site remains undeveloped brownfield land. [24] [25] Victoria Mill

  5. Thomas Ferguson & Co Ltd - Wikipedia

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    Situated in Banbridge, Northern Ireland it has been weaving since 1854. The Company, bears the name of its founder, Thomas Ferguson (1820–1900), who was born at Clare, near the village of Waringstown in County Down. They are almost exclusively weavers of linen fabrics, made from yarns spun from 100% flax fibre.

  6. Arlington Mills Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The complex has 23 buildings, most of which are of brick construction. The largest is the 1896 wool-combing mill, which is 750 feet (230 m) long, while the 1906 worsted weaving mill is 600 feet (180 m) long. [3] The first industrial use of this site was about 1820, when Abiel Stevens built a wood-frame factory in which piano cases were built ...

  7. Fingerweaving - Wikipedia

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    The French Voyageurs (fur traders in the northern US and southern Canada) adapted the finger weaving patterns to create belts and sashes which showed which company they belonged to. The belts were the original weight belts, as they added extra support to their stomachs when they were lifting heavy canoes or packets of beaver pelts, which ...

  8. Great Northern - Wikipedia

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    Great Northern Railway (U.S.), a defunct American transcontinental railroad and major predecessor of the BNSF Railway. Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), a defunct British railway company formed in 1846, namesake of: Great Northern Route, a group of railway services in the South-East and East of England, UK; Thameslink, Southern and Great ...

  9. The Great Western Cotton Factory - Wikipedia

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    The Great Western Cotton Works was subject to strikes in 1858, 1864, 1865, 1869, 1873, twice in 1875, 1878, 1879, 1882, 1884, 1889 and 1900, almost always regarding cuts to pay or pay increases not being in line with those in Northern England. [2] In 1925 the company had to go into liquidation following a recession, and the building was used by ...