The town was the major producer of linoleum, a type of floor covering, after the formation of the Linoleum Manufacturing Company in 1864 by its inventor, Frederick Walton.

However, it was revived in 1902 when Sumter Cogswell built the Pell City Manufacturing Company, which subsequently became Avondale Mills, which was a major landmark of the town until Thunder Enterprises, a Tennessee company, bought the building and began dismantling the factory in 2008.

Manufacturing plants of large firms such as Michelin and JVC located in town during the latter half of the 20th century.

Payne was originally a company town for a Bibb Manufacturing textile mill, founded in 1899.

The two largest employers of Owensville's residents are the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana plant located halfway between Princeton and Fort Branch, as well as Gibson Generating Station located 5. 5 miles north-northwest of Owensville, as well two coal mines that opened up in 2008 and 2012, located 1 mile and 6 miles north of town respectively.

The Dodge Manufacturing Company, Perkins Windmills and the Mishawaka Woolen and Rubber Company ( later Ball Band, then Uniroyal ) all helped the town to prosper.

The town remained basically agricultural into the 20th century, although the Kent Manufacturing Company did make tennis racquets and croquet sets on the upper reaches of the Tenmile River.

The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation.

Today the prominent employers in the town are Tresca Brothers Sand & Gravel, Lucas Manufacturing Co., Inc. and formally the GAF roofing plant.

3M originally known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company was started by five men from the small town of Two Harbors, Minnesota.

The village has also been called " Victory Mills ," likely owing its name to the large ( now defunct ) factory / mill ( Saratoga Victory Manufacturing Company, 1846 ) centrally located on the primary road through town, Gates Avenue.

Manufacturing plows was a town industry in the 19th Century.

Industries came to town in the late 1890s beginning with Norwood Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill which built the town's first mill and mill village.

Following the war, Greencastle grew considerably in the late 19th century during the Industrial Revolution, having several industrial factories built inside the town limits, including the Crowell Manufacturing Company, which constructed farming equipment.

In 1887, several investors established the Athens Mining and Manufacturing Company with plans to convert the town into a model industrial community and initiate large-scale mining operations in the area.

The town currently has three places listed in the National Register of Historic Places, including the Hupp House, the Strasburg Historic District, and the Strasburg Stone and Earthenware Manufacturing Company building.

Ronceverte might have been named Edgar, for the high number of Edgars who lived in the town, but the name was settled by a leading entrepreneur of the area, Cecil Clay, president of the St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company.

The Charles Town Mining, Manufacturing, and Improvement Company played an instrumental role in creating this new town.

In 1936, the town of Ranson purchased the former Charles Town Mining, Manufacturing & Improvement Company office building from Mr. Getzendauner for $ 3, 000 for the purposes of town hall.

In 1907 Roy Heagle and others started a stave and heading mill called Gilman Manufacturing Company on the south side of town near the river.

In 1887 Upham Manufacturing started a line south out of town through what is now Wildwood Park to haul logs in from Cameron and Richfield.

The factory ran out of space and was moved to the town of Deutz, Germany in 1869 where the company was renamed to Deutz Gasmotorenfabrik AG ( The Deutz Gas Engine Manufacturing Company ).

Dain City was built for, and by, the Dain Manufacturing Company ( Now known as John Deere ), the main employer in the area, as a " company town ".

DAT Automobile Manufacturing began development of a line of 495 cc cars to sell in this new market segment, calling the new small cars " Datson "-meaning " Son of DAT ".

Dissatisfaction with what John Dopyera felt was mismanagement led him to resign from National in January 1929, and he subsequently formed the Dobro Manufacturing Corporation, later called Dobro Corporation, Ltd, and began to manufacture his own line of resonator-equipped instruments ( dobros ).

Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the famous Levi's brand of jeans, using fabric from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The company began as the National Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio, which was established to manufacture and sell the first mechanical cash register, invented in 1879 by James Ritty.

The name Celluloid actually began as a trademark of the Celluloid Manufacturing Company, first of Albany, NY, and later of Newark, New Jersey, which manufactured the celluloids patented by John Wesley Hyatt.

Manufacturing in Mishawaka peaked in the 1940s and began a slow decline as the economic base shifted to retail services and small industry.

The city's growth began in the mid-1980s, when Toyota built Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the first wholly owned United States plant, in a recently annexed part of the city.

Caterpillar Tractor Company began in 1925 from a forced reorganization of the Holt Manufacturing Company ; an early successful manufacturer of crawler tractors.

In 1811 the Cohoes Manufacturing Company, owned entirely by men from Lansingburg, was incorporated and began a factory for making screws, this would be the first use of large industry in Cohoes and the harnessing of the Mohawk River and Cohoes Falls for power.

In 1889, electricity began to be furnished to Martinsburg as part of a franchise granted to the United Edison Manufacturing Company of New York.

Piedmont Manufacturing Company, which was organized in 1873 and began operation in 1876.

Manufacturing began again in 1948.

In 1925, the company changed its name to Raytheon Manufacturing Company and began marketing its rectifier, under the Raytheon brand name, with great commercial success.

The Risdon Manufacturing Company, established in Naugatuck around 1910, began by producing safety pins.

Eaton officers believed the quickest way to grow the business was through acquisitions and began buying companies in the automotive industry, By 1932, the diversified company changed its name to Eaton Manufacturing Company.

By early December 1901, the local newspaper announced that the H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company began operation of its automobile factory at West Fayette and South Geddes streets in the building owned by the Lipe estate.

Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the famous Levi's brand of jeans, using fabric from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire.

In between the First and Second WW, Ostrów was one of the fastest growing towns: the number of inhabitants doubled, showy houses were built and modern Railcar Manufacturing ( Fabryka Wagon ) began.

by 1912, the production of gold cases began and by 1920, the Toyo Tokei Manufacturing plant was established.

Manufacturing of tractors began in 1963, in collaboration Motokov-Praha ( Zetor ) of Czechoslovakia, and was known as Hindustan Tractors & Bulldozers Ltd.

IPSCO Inc. began as Prairie Pipe Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1956, changing its name to Interprovincial Steel and Pipe Corporation, Ltd. in 1960 and IPSCO, Inc. in 1984.

In 1883, Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company and Kohler Company began producing cast-iron bathtubs.

He began his career in 1890 working in the engineering department of the United Edison Manufacturing Company.