The silk industry in America. A history: prepared for the Centennial Exposition (1876)
Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 · [New York Silk Association of America] · leaf 64
me in struggles withthe Indians, a building was erected which was ever afterwardsknown as the old oil mill. The village of Florence, nowcontaining 3,000 inhabitants, which has since grown up aroundthe mill, had then no existence. Its site is on the Mill River,a stream made memorable in 1874 by the… … THE SILK INDUSTRY IN AMERICA. 55 millstones still remaining by the roadside are a record of theearly uses of the building, which, after doing good service inits original capacity, was for some years occupied as a grist-mill. About 1832, under the direction of Samuel Whitmarsh,this building was put…
Silk manufacture and trade
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