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Wamsutta Mills is a former textile manufacturing company and current brand offering sheets, towels, bedding and other household products. Founded by Thomas Bennett, Jr. on the banks of the Acushnet River in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1846 and opened in 1848, Wamsutta Mills was named after Wamsutta , the son of a Native American chief who ...
Mill No. 2 added 1908. Mills No. 1 and 2 sold to Delaware Rayon Company in 1928; Mill No. 3 added 1916, sold to Nashawena in 1925; Mill No. 4 added in 1922, located on King Street, was the largest spinning mill in the world. It never operated at full capacity and was sold to Firestone Rubber Co. in 1927 11: Nashawena Mills: 2: 1909: Belleville ...
December 2, 2009 (2-28 Mill Rd., 2-13 Tarkiln Hill Rd. Extends into Acushnet.: 16: Hotel Waverly: Hotel Waverly: January 26, 1990 (1162-1166 Acushnet Ave. 17: Howland Mill Village Historic District
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 in 1960s for Interstate 195. 73: Wamsutta Steam Woolen Mill ...
The Mill-Phase II will bring a second apartment development with 227 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments to 2.7 acres of land directly west of the Ironworks Ice Rink, from the St. Joseph River ...
Boy operatives in the mule room of the Wamsutta Mill in New Bedford, January 1912, as photographed by anti-child labor activist Lewis Hine (1874-1940).. During the middle years of the 1920s, competitive pressure in the era of post-World War I deflation kept wages of factory operatives unusually low, with the Massachusetts Department of Labor reporting average weekly wages for New Bedford ...
The Mill's second phase joins the current construction of The Front Street Apartments, a 106-unit "boutique" building southeast of The Mill's second phase. Front Street Apartments will be in the ...
Wamsutta (c. 1634–1662), also known as Alexander Pokanoket, as he was called by New England colonists, was the eldest son of Massasoit (meaning Great Leader) Ousa Mequin of the Pokanoket Tribe and Wampanoag nation, and brother of Metacomet.