Chaffee Family Establishes O.S.Chaffee and Son Silk Company

Title

Chaffee Family Establishes O.S.Chaffee and Son Silk Company

Description

Fredrick Chaffee and his son Orwell S. Chaffee build a large stone mill in Mansfield after their first mill in Massachusetts was destroyed by fire.

Source

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 67.

Date

1863

Contributor

dube_briana

Mediator

horn_allen

Collection

Digital Windham

Citation

“Chaffee Family Establishes O.S.Chaffee and Son Silk Company,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/753.