First Attempt to Produce Cotton Thread in Smithville

First Attempt to Produce Cotton Thread in Smithville

In 1848, the Smithville mills attempt to produce cotton thread. The Coats Cotton Company of Manchester, England, sues them for breach of patent and successfully stops production.

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

1848

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