First Successful Silk Venture
Title
First Successful Silk Venture
Description
Lilly, Conant, Fisk, Atwood, and Storrs take over the failed Holland and Gilbert Mill at Gurleyville. Using machinery designed by Samuel Slater, the company begins the first successful silk venture in America, the Mansfield Silk Company, which operates for eleven years.
Source
Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 63.
Date
1828/1839
Contributor
hall_tyler
Collection
Citation
“First Successful Silk Venture,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/720.