Windham Company Constructs East Mill

Windham Company Constructs East Mill

The Windham Company builds a granite mill known as the “East Mill,” and outfits it with new machinery. In addition, “The Company’s water power was augmented by the building of ‘a substantial stone dam across the river.’

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 11.

1828

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