Webb's New England railway and manufacturers' statistical gazetteer; containing an interesting sketch of every station, village and city on each railroad in New England, together with a statistical, (14759606462)
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Title: Webb's New England railway and manufacturers' statistical gazetteer; containing an interesting sketch of every station, village and city on each railroad in New England, together with a statistical, historical and biographical account of their representative manufacturing establishments
Year: 1869 (1860s)
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Subjects: New England -- Gazetteers New England -- Directories
Publisher: Providence, Printed by the Providence Press Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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2 stories. Employ 10 persons. Pitkin Brothers & Co., 152 State street, commencedthe manufacture of machinery and steam heating iipparatusin 1850. They have a store 20x122, 5 stories ; store house35x100 feet, 2 stories ; shop 50x136, 5 stories with ell 35x40. This company employ 75 to 100 men, and have a 50horse power engine, with 1 horizontal tubular boiler madeby themselves. This city is the home and residence of the pioneers thatintroduced into this Western World the manufacture of silverplated spoons and forks. It is here (only a few rods fromthe Post Office,) in this enterprising city of • Charter Oaknotoriety, that we find the works of the celebrated WilliamRogers Manufacturing Co. (whose stamp on spoons andforks has become a household necessity). This companyemploy from 75 to 100 hands, in the manufacture of superiorplated goods. They make spoons and forks a specialty, and Webbs N. E. Railway and Manufacturers Statistical Gazetteer. 495 i?y?EiiH r. ^.5. 5 wi,iiim 2 fisisi
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