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525 (1880)
Greenwoods Co., manufacturers of cotton duck for sails, constructed the first brick mill building and dam at the site in 1848-49. By 1850, the site comprised a complex of fifteen structures, a canal from Greenwoods Pond and rail spur to the New Haven and Northampton line. A coal gasification plant was built along the river bank by 1897. Greenwoods Co. and Mount Vernon Woodberry Cotton Duck Co. manufactured cotton duck and belting, and in 1880 Greenwoods Co. employed 525 workers to run 12,000 spindles and 226 looms. The Touraine Co. made printed silks from 1911 to 1919. Landers Frary Clark occupied the complex from 1919 to 1941 and produced vacuum cleaners, electric mixers as well as the paper boxes for product shipping. Underwood Corp. made portable typewriters and adding machines at the factory from 1943 to 1960. Since 1960, T. M. Perry made aircraft parts, machine tools and Beaver tractors; Hurley Manufacturing Co., makes springs; L and M Manufacturing produced small metal parts; and Ovation Instruments produced guitars. As a result of the flood of 1936, the entire southern portion of the complex was demolished. By 1951, the rail spur and canal were also gone. Many of the more than 70 company built dwellings are gone, but a row of 10 houses is mostly intact.
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1870, 1872
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The extant mill buildings are all of brick and have near-flat roofs. Except for the stair tower the milIs bear no ornamentation, with unadorned cornices, stone sills and flat lintels of brick. It is likely that the earliest extant mill, 4-story and 170' x 50', was built in the early 1870s, and it is certain that the other large mill, 4-story and 161' x 60', was erected in 1872. These two buildings form an ell, and the 5-story mansard-roofed tower rises at their junction. On the top floor of the tower protruding brick borders frame arched openings. The floors of both mills are tied into exterior walls. The steam plant, 1-story and 85' x 46', was built in 1874 and the picker house, 1-story and 104' x 30', was added in 1878. (Roth)
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Excellent, Good
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One 14.0 acre parcel at the north end of Greenwoods Road, on the east bank of the Farmington River.
Individually listed on the State Register of Historic Places.
Yes
14.0
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