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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alrose Manufacturing Co. Closes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Alrose Silk Manufacturing Company, owned by Alexander Rosin, closes after two years of operation at its Bridge Street location, ending silk production in Willimantic.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile &amp; History Community, 1993), 84.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1941]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[hall_tyler]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/863">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alrose Manufacturing Company Relocates to Willimantic]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The city pays Alrose Manufacturing Company proprietor Alexander Rosin $4,000 to move his textile production to the vacant Bridge Street mills.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile &amp; History Community, 1993), 84.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1939-02]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[turner_max]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/77">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[America&#039;s Textile Reporter: For the Combined Textile Industries]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1912]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Book]]></dcterms:type>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/747">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[American Civil War ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[American Civil War begins, and Windham again makes great contributions of manpower and resources. The war creates an economic downturn in Windham due to the decreased manpower and supply of cotton.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ellen Douglas Larned, History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume II: 1760-1880 (Worcester, MA: Charles Hamilton, 1880), 583-4; Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile &amp; History Community, 1993), 7.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1861/1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[turner_max]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/690">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[American Revolution]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Connecticut, including Windham, contributes men, capital, and supplies to the American Revolutionary cause.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Allen B. Lincoln, A Modern History of Windham County, Connecticut: A Windham County Treasure Book (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1920), 4.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1776/1783]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[hall_tyler]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/883">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[American Thread Co. Closes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The American Thread Company closes in 1985.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile and History Museum, 1993), XIV.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1985]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[freebairn_richard]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/830">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[American Thread Co. Constructs Bleach House]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[American Thread Company constructs a bleach house.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile &amp; History Community, 1993), 41.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1910]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[dore_lindsey]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[horn_allen]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/817">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[American Thread Co. Constructs Mill No. 5]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The American Thread Company constructs Mill Number Five.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile &amp; History Community, 1993), 41.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1899]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[horn_allen]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/828">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[American Thread Co. Constructs Mill No. 6]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The American Thread Company builds Mill Number 6.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile &amp; History Community, 1993), 41.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1907]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[turner_max]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/843">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[American Thread Co. Expands]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[American Thread Company constructs a connecting mill between mills five and six, along with a concrete warehouse.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile and History Museum, 1993), 41.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1916]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[freebairn_richard]]></dcterms:contributor>
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