Morrison and Atwood Establish Atwood-Morrison Company

Title

Morrison and Atwood Establish Atwood-Morrison Company

Description

Walter Morrison and John Atwood found the Atwood-Morrison Machine Company in Stonington after Atwood's Valley Street factory is destroyed by the Starkweather Fire in February 1876 and Morrison's business in Willimantic folds.

Source

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 74-5.

Date

1902

Contributor

turner_max

Collection

Citation

“Morrison and Atwood Establish Atwood-Morrison Company,” History Digitized, accessed March 12, 2026, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/822.