Smith Brothers Purchase Lee Mills

Smith Brothers Purchase Lee Mills

Leesburg becomes Smithville and the mills become Smithville Manufacturing Company The mills are put under the control of Whiting Hayden, a local landowner. The company expands its mills in 1846 and 1852, adds stone cottages in 1853, and constructs a granite expansion in 1857.

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 6-7.

1845

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