Skip to main content

https://translate.google.com/
To translate web pages
copy URL & click globe

page 157 -- H.B. Cook, Holly Folders, Willimantic Linen Company

updated 29 May 2017
<PREVIOUS PAGE      ~ index ~       NEXT PAGE>
33 N. Main St. Bristol, CT


Expositions were a valuable publicity outlet for products in the 1800s.
This card probably references the World Cotton Centennial (1884)
or New Orleans Universal Exposition and World's Fair

another Willimantic Thread card can be found on
page 192 of the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection
Fortunately for all, the unusual granite home of the Willimantic Linen Company has largely been preserved, although as can be seen in the Google shots below some buildings have been torn down.

Several buildings occupy space now used for parking in this 1991 Google Earth view.
Mill #4 appears across the river from the main plant.
By 2002, this Google Earth shot shows the absence of some of the buildings that were present a decade earlier.
Mill #2 is the main building as featured below on Google Street View. On the hill to the left
of this view is the scar left by Mill #4 which burned to the ground in the mid-1990s.
The State of Connecticut Department of Transportation has an excellent site on the history of Willimantic and its multiple thread manufacturing enterprises. So, too, does Textile History.

from the Libary of Congress, as is the explanation below:
"Willimantic Linen Company began work on Mill No. 5 shortly before selling out to American Thread Company in 1898. American Thread completed the mill c1900-03 as the one of several brick-pier factories. Part of the power used in Mill No. 5 came from hydropower facilities installed at this time in Mill No. 1 (HAER No. CT-44-A). Although not an individually significant structure, Mill No. 5 has significance as part of the American Thread Company complex, once the largest local employer in the Borough of Willimantic."

What a dramatic day it was when Google Street View visited Willimantic in 2011:

(Google Street View, above and below)
Though the granite of these buildings is substantial,
it has taken a great deal of community support to preserve this history.
From Google Maps, a birdseye of Willimantic thread in 2015
Want to know more about textile manufacture in the 19th century? Try: Windham Textile andHistory MuseumThe Mill Museum of ConnecticutSelf-Guided Tour/Museo Textil e Histórico de WindhamEl Museo de la Fábrica de Tejidosde ConnecticutRecorrido auto-guiado



<PREVIOUS PAGE      ~ index ~       NEXT PAGE>




The author of this blog has attempted to correctly apply terms and conditions to Content. These pages and associated images are being made available exclusively for use in non-commercial and non-profit study, scholarship, research, or teaching . Researchers are responsible for using these materials in accordance with Title 17 of the United States Code and any other applicable statutes. All trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, product names and logos appearing on this blog are the property of their respective owners.. In the event that any Content infringes your rights or Content is not properly identified or acknowledged please email me. Thanks! 

This site includes historical materials that may contain negative stereotypes or language reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place. These items are presented as part of the historical record, and do not represent or in any way reflect the personal views of the author of this blog, his ancestors, or his family.


 



You'll "catch my ear"
--if you comment here--

Comments

”go"