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Cotton manufacture in Brooklyn began in 1820 when Comfort Tiffany built a mill on the west bank of the Quinebaug River, directly across from Danielson. A partnership of Rhode Island men, notably Moses and Amos D. Lockwood of Slatersville, bought the property in 1848. Incorporated as the Quinebaug Co., this firm built a stone mill for cotton production in 1850-54, which burned in 1961. Still standing, however, are the brick tenement houses built in the early 1850s west of the mill. Known as Upper Village, ...most of the 1860 workforce of 166 females and 144 males lived in these houses; on average, seven people occupied each family-unit of housing. In 1881-82 Quinebaug Co. built a new weave shed; behind the weave shed is a brick gasholder house. New tenements built south of Upper Village housed the expanded workforce, which numbered some 800 people when the weave shed began operating. The name of the new housing complex--Quebec Village-- indicated the heritage of most of the residents. On Main St. at the north end of Upper Village stands the Quinebaug Store, built in the 1880s to replace Tiffany's 1820s store. A pilot project in the reuse of historic mill housing restored Quebec Village in the 1970s. A plastics manufacturer now occupies the weave shed. (Roth)
Two (2) blocks.
1881-1882
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The Upper Village 1 1/2-story and 2 1/2-story dwellings include ten 2-family houses and one each for four, six and ten families. Most have gable roofs with shed-roofed dormers. Sills and lintels are granite. The 1881-82 weave shed has two stories with near-flat roof; this rubble-walled 450' x 102' mill held 1,514 looms for weaving sheetings. Its large windows, about 8' x 5', have stone sills and segmental-arch brick lintels. Behind the weave shed is a brick gasholder house with peaked roof and stone-block foundations. New tenements built south of Upper Village --Quebec Village-- consists of five 8-family rows arranged around a central square. They were modeled on the row houses of Upper Village, with some changes. Gabled dormers light the upper floors in Quebec Village, and windows are segmentally arched in brick instead of flat with granite lintels. On Main St. at the north end of Upper Village stands the Quinebaug Store, built in the 1880s. (Roth)
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east side of Tiffany Street, west side of Quinebaug River, south of rte 6
Located in the Quinebaug Mill/Quebec Square Historic District (1985).
http://npgallery.nps.gov/nrhp/GetAsset?assetID=cefde6e2-fd51-4c9c-918c-19531e91a722
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