In 1914, the Waverly and the Pioneer mills were sold to the American Woolen Company, which would close in 1934 during the Great Depression.

The American Woolen Company closed its mills in 1953, and the buildings today house a variety of businesses, homes, and apartments.

For example, half of the workers in the four Lawrence mills of the American Woolen Company, the leading employer in the industry and the town, were girls between 14 and 18.

Woolen textiles from Tilburg were known far and wide.

In what is now the center of Rockville, he dammed up the Hockanum River and built a water powered mill known as the " Rock Mill ", which was possibly also known as the McLean Woolen Factory.

Pendleton Woolen Mills, founded in 1893, is known worldwide as a maker of fine Indian trading blankets and men's plaid shirts.

* Pendleton Woolen Mills, Pendleton, Oregon, USA, best known for its usually-plaid woollen shirts

By 1885 it was known as the " Ludlow Woolen Company " and included sections for spinning, carding, weaving, dressing, finishing and dyeing wool.

Other companies that sprang up during this period were Knoxville Woolen Mills, Dixie Cement, and Woodruff's Furniture.

The Stanley Woolen Mill in Uxbridge, Massachusetts and some local scenes in that community were used in this film.

The Bachman Uxbridge Worsted Company's proposed 1954 buyout of the American Woolen Company would have created America's largest woolen conglomerate.

Walt Flanagan plays four roles in this film: The " Woolen Cap Smoker " in the beginning ( which he reprises in Clerks II ), the " Egg Man ", the " Offended Customer " ( during the " jizz mopper " scene ) and the " Cat Admiring Bitter Customer ,".

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Further along is the final dam, at the site of the former Sawyer Woolen Mills, a large manufacturer in Dover during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

She became treasurer of the New England Waste Process Company in 1928, and was also employed as an office worker with the Daniel E. Cummings Woolen Company, a local textile mill.

" The Woolen and Cotton Manufactory of the Harmony Society with Emphasis on the Indiana Years 1814 – 1825.

Woolen shawls are worn by women and men for warmth because few homes are centrally heated.

* 1941, February 27-Grand opening of West Texas Woolen Mills plant in Eldorado, with a parade and BBQ lunch.

Important businesses included the retail firm of Dunn and Campbell, headed by Michael Ross Campbell ; the Hurricane Springs resort six miles south of Tullahoma ; the Tullahoma Woolen Mill ; and the M. R. Campbell Hub, Spoke Rim, and Handle Works.

Hilliard Company Woolen Mills.

In 1863 the Hanover Woolen Mill was started, and in 1929 the organization built the large building now standing beside Crescent Falls Dam.

In 1863 the Hanover Woolen Mill was started, and in 1929 the organization built the large building now standing beside Crescent Falls Dam.

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

Beginning with the establishment of the Mayfield Woolen Mills in 1860, the manufacture of clothing was a major industry in Mayfield for a century.

That same year, the Troy Cotton & Woolen Manufactory was also founded, by a group of investors led by Oliver Chace, from Swansea, who had worked as a carpenter for Samuel Slater in his early years.

One of the major companies involved in the strike was the American Woolen Company, led by the son of a Portuguese immigrant, William Madison Wood who had risen through the ranks in the textile industry.

* William M. Wood, Co-founder of the American Woolen Company

* S. F. Cushman Woolen Mill

* On July 26th, 2012 the back of the Charlton Woolen Mill burnt down to the ground.

* Casey Makela, the author of bestselling books on soap making, and owner of the Killmaster Soap & Woolen Works, lives in Harrisville.

Image: Collins Woolen Mill, Gilsum, NH. jpg | Woolen mill in 1911

The Squam Lake Woolen Mill was established in 1840.

Following Blodgett's suggestion, Derryfield was renamed Manchester in 1810, the year the mill was incorporated as the Amoskeag Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company.

Skålgropar, a particular kind of petroglyph found in Scandinavia, were known in older times as älvkvarnar ( elven mills ), pointing to their believed usage.

The city is known for its large steel mills, and for being the birthplace of the The Jackson 5 music group.

One of the earliest such reformers was Robert Owen, known for his pioneering efforts in improving conditions for workers at the New Lanark mills, and often regarded as one of the key thinkers of the early socialist movement.

The rank system introduced for judo in the 1880s proved commercially viable, and colored-belt systems were adopted in many martial arts degree mills ( also known as McDojos, which were parodied in Penn & Teller: Bullshit episode “ Martial Arts ”, June 2010 ).

An early known example of rotary to reciprocating motion can be found in a number of Roman saw mills ( dating to the 3rd to 6th century AD ) in which a crank and connecting rod mechanism converted the rotary motion of the waterwheel into the linear movement of the saw blades.

In 1414, a sporadic new war broke out, known as the " Hunger War " from the Knights ' scorched-earth tactics of burning fields and mills ; but both the Knights and the Lithuanians were too exhausted from the previous war to risk a major battle, and the fighting petered out in the autumn.

The town is known for paper mills, as well as metalworks and other factories.

Backnang has been known as Gerberstadt due to several tanneries and leather factories, and wool and cloth mills that dominated Backnang's industries.

Arbroath became moderately well known for jute and sailcloth production, with 34 mills employing 1400 looms and producing over one million yards of osnaburg cloth and 450, 000 yards of sailcloth in 1875.

Along the Still River, mills were in operation as early as 1732 in an area that became known as the Iron Works District.

Although known today as a dormitory suburb of Glasgow, the town grew from a country village within the parish of New Kilpatrick to a minor industrial centre in the nineteenth century with paper mills and bleach works on the Allander River to the north east of the town centre.

Prior to the mid-20th century, Monroe County remained largely agrarian and was well known for its numerous paper mills — the first of which was founded in 1834.

It is the large number of paper mills in the area that gives Pine Bluff its, at times, distinctive odor, a feature known prominently among Arkansans.

Early in the 19th century, small mills and factories proliferated along the Shepaug River in present-day Washington Depot, which came to be known as Factory Hollow.

Smaller communities, with their own churches, post offices, mills, and stores, emerged in Burch ’ s Falls ( renamed Clark ’ s Falls in the 1860s ) and Laurel Glen, both in the eastern end of town, and Ashwillet and Pendleton Hill ( known as Pauchunganuc until the 1840s ), located respectively in the northwestern and northeastern corners of the town.

Noblesville was once noted for its flour mills, the mostly widely known of which was the Noblesville Milling Company, producer of Diadem and Kismet flours.

Much of Linwood ’ s commerce came from the saw mills on the river, so the town had grown very near the banks of the Kansas River ( affectionately known as the “ Kaw ” River ) that flows eastward to the Missouri.

While the original settlers are not known for certain, early records and deeds mention the following: William and Jacob Waterhouse ( of Kennebunk ), Love Roberts, Alexander Grant, Thomas Lord, Jacob Rhoades, Benjamin and Mark Goodwin ( brothers who built one of the first mills at Goodwin's Mills ), John Low ( who served as town moderator and treasurer ), John Burbank, Joseph Witten, James and William Brock, Mark Ricker, Robert Cousens, Valentine Hill, and Gershom Downs.

Since its very beginning, Funkstown was known for its mills.

The town had other mills in the past, one of them was a stone-mill called " De Eendracht ", which stood on Moleneind, currently known as Poteind.

The area was once known for its large corn and potato crop, starch mills, and manufacturing ( leather, shoe pegs ).

The town is perhaps best known for its two mills which sit on opposite banks of the South Branch Raritan River.

Until the post-World War II suburbanization of New Jersey, Hanover Township was a sparsely populated industrial town known for its iron works and paper mills.

Highland Mills was also known as Orange Post Office but the residents changed it in 1824, with the present name most likely reflecting the water and flour mills and tannery businesses in the area.

* George West ( known as the " Paper Bag King ") developed a line of square-bottomed paper bags which he manufactured by the millions after the American Civil War, and at one time owned almost a dozen paper mills located along the Kayaderosseras Creek.